Posts Tagged ‘Ireland’
IAS Public Star Party: Fri 30 Oct, Martello Tower car park | International Year of Astronomy in Ireland | Astronomy 2009
On October 30th the Irish Astronomical Society will hold a public star party at the Martello Tower car park in Sandymount at 8pm, someone will be there regardless of the weather. From 8.00pm till 10.00pm, at the Martello Tower Car Park (south side), Strand Rd, Sandymount, Dublin 4. See Location Map. No [...]
Kids Space/Art Event – Dublin (Draiocht) Nov 14
For those of you with Children over 5.... Family day: Rockets, Stars & Planets Draíocht Celebrating 2009 as the International year of Astronomy, come and explore space with us through art - why not create a night sky of your own! Age 5 - 10 years, all children must be accompanied by an adult. No booking necessary, please wear old [...]
Using Satellites to check the cloud cover
So how do you check for cloud cover using an IR Satellite image? Turns out there are many satellites beaming information back to earth which is accessible via the internet. A great use for these images is to check the viewing conditions for viewing the stars. I've done a few searches and came up a website which stays reasonably up to [...]
Jupiter Photo from Dublin Oct 4th 2009
Once again the sky was not great, but every now and then I could see the Moon and Jupiter quite clearly. So I managed to take a picture (a bit overexposed perhaps) and I caught the 4 Galilean satellites - Io Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. So then I started to wonder, how to tell them apart. Sky and Telescope have a super Java tool called Jupiter's [...]
Harvest Moon taken from the Irish Nightsky
There might be some clouds around, but there was just enough time for me to take this picture of the Harvest Moon. Taken in Dublin from my back garden using Nikon D50 Camera with a 300mm Lens, 200ISO, 1,000 shutter speed. Hope you like it!
Water Water everywhere….
It doesn't rain but it pours! Certainly thats what it feels like when within just a short few hours you start to hear about water on the moon (yes the moon!) and now on Mars. Given the fact that water may be more abundant than previously thought it is reasonable to deduce that we can use this information to help us decide possible future [...]