Stargazing breaks in Ireland?

The way the weather is turning there'll be snow boarding on the Burren yet. Last weekend I saw footage of snow in the Algerian desert on France 24 news channel.

I'm well aware that it's hit and miss (mostly miss) opportunity. That's why I want to find some places that are also photogenic. With our weather it pays to have a second hobby...

With the weather here, you might as well be looking for a snow boarding holiday in west Clare. :lol:

:lol:

It's been done!

As for the astronomy break.
I've never heard of one.
Why not find the darkest clearest part and a b&b nearby?

Incidentally,clouds aren't such a problem in many parts of Connemara.

There are few lights to illuminate them from below and so you only know a cloud is passing when a bank of stars winks out and disappears.

Sometimes you think that a cosmic eraser is wiping out whole swathes of the Milky Way.

A rare sight indeed in modern Europe.

(The nearest traffic light to the village of Roundstone is 40 miles away.)

Peter.

I'm convinced. Connamara it is then. I'm originally from County Galway and while I'm not a native speaker and my spoken Irish is rusty to say the least I regularly escape from this 'globalized' world by switching to TG4 or RnaG to experience the sounds and topics of my childhood and youth that are no longer remembered on our English-speaking channels.

Careful with Connemara. I'm close by so I've stayed out in Roundstone & Ballynahinch quite a few times & brought my scopes. I've never seen the stars on any of those trips due to cloud cover though. I guess it's a combination of being so close to the ocean and the jet stream?

Maybe somewhere further inland would be good, e.g. Maam, Cong, etc?

Never seen the stars from Connemara?

It might help to take the lens cap off your telescope Trevor.

We know already that the North Atlantic is not the sunny Aegean Sea.

Weather permitting, he night views from the Sky Road are as good as they get anywhere on the planet:

www.clasohm.com/photodb/photo?photo_id=7097

Peter.