International Observe the Moon Night: Sat. September 18th

I've often found down thru the years that Met Eireann
are a day behind sometimes in terms of forcast.
I guess they have to be over coutious.
But to me unless that front really pushes in then we should be in
the clear.
TBH it's 50/50
Any met office will not tell you this but sometimes it's less.
Shur y'know yourself.

There will be live images of the moon from various countries
via the AWB site if you are interested and its raining here.

www.astronomerswithoutborders.org/projec...ges-of-the-moon.html

Deirdre Kelleghan
Vice Chair IFAS
Cloudy in Bray right now : angry:

About 10 amateur astronomrs had a brilliant time at Sandymount. The only telescope brought was my Williams Optics Flt 158 f/7 without its finderscope. Liam Smyth stuck with me for the entire observing session from start to finish -9.30pm to 11.15pm. We had a quick look at the Moon and saw Copernicus and Plato @40X. But the real main event was Jupiter. We used magnifications 30X, 40X and 140X. With the refractor we could see the North Equatorial Belt and a very faint South Equatorial Belt and the South Temperate Belt. The innermost Moon Io was on the disc of Jupiter as we began observing. We could easily see Io's shadow on the disc @140X, and @11pm we observed Io's disc coming off the face of the planet live! It took almost 10 minutes to come off Jupiter.
Special mention should also be made that we observed Uranus at 140X. In the refactor we could fit Jupiter and Uranus in the same field of view @40X. This is something we will not be able to do again for the next 12 years.
Lastly, I must mention that Liam Smyth found Gamma Andromedae or Almach -the beautiful double star and separated it @ a mere 40X. Thank you, Liam. What an historical night God gave us.

Yours sincerely, Aubrey Glazier

Good grief Aubrey that's great , sorry could not ring you back had no credit and was driving home from
the IMC in Armagh.


It is totally cloudy here in Bray right now


How is it around the country ??? any moon to be seen anywhere at all ???

Deirdre Kelleghan
Vice Chair IFAS

Disaster of a night weather-wise for SAC.
One of our members Gerry said it was clear in Bruff only a few miles away and
when I got home is was clearing here in Ballycasey.
It's just pot luck as usual.
They really should make these international
events a week long or even a weekend long to give us
Sods in cloudy places a fighting chance at least.

Similar conditions here in Tralee. We had a couple of fleeting looks through the clouds but mainly It was cloudy so we just had a good chat for the two hours.


Michael Scully