A.I. observing session tuesday night

hi all
astronomy ireland is holding a telescope night in the phoenix park at the papel cross car park at 8pm and around ireland on tuesday night. log on to astronomy.ie to find out were events are being held around the country.

ps
feel free to bring your telescope along if you want to

A quick question, do they charge for looking through their scopes at this.
I've heard that on occasions they do, I'm just curious...

hi dave

no it is free to all

thats good. although its abit far for me

I thought they asked for "donations" at these things? I was at an event at John Nooney's observatory in Mullingar in 2003 and an A.I. rep arrived late in the evening expecting John to have charged €2 from everyone there. We were not happy at all about that ... especially when the rep breezed in after I had driven from Dublin with a couple of others to help out on the night and the rep hadn't done a tap.

And another thing, A.I. can't be bothered replying to any of my repeated requests to advertise an SDAS event so I can't really see why I should support them. Another SDAS member has similarly been treated discourteously.

The bottom line as far as I can see is that A.I. have no interest in supporting other clubs (that don't toe their mantra).

John

Guys, Carl is just telling people about a free event. Thats all. No need to go down 'that road' again. It's all been said.