hi everyone,
you are all very welcome to the next meeting of SDAS/Gonzaga College Astronomy Club this week. Details of the forthcoming talk are below.
see ya there!
John Flannery,
SDAS
South Dublin Astronomical Society and Gonzaga College Astronomy Club
next meeting scheduled for Thursday, 5th February 2004 at 8pm in Gonzaga College, Ranelagh, Dublin
A talk by John O'Neill of the Irish Astronomical Society on
"Two Great Comets for Spring 2004"
Comets C/2001 Q4 NEAT and C/2002 T7 LINEAR are adhering to their promise to be two fine celestial sights that will grace the late-Spring skies of 2004. Both are within binocular range though Comet C/2001 Q4 NEAT is too far south to be seen in Irish skies at present. Both comets will be easy naked eye objects at their brightest and will evoke memories of Comet Hale-Bopp which was admired by millions in early 1997.
John O'Neill is one of Ireland's foremost amateur astronomers, a veteran of six total solar eclipses, and countless hours logged observing the night sky. His talk will focus on some of the great comets of the 1990s that were seen from Ireland and looks ahead to the prospects for observing the two great comets this Spring. The lecture was recently given to the IAS and John's slides of Comet Hale-Bopp are simply stunning and not to be missed.
  