Lunar Eclipse May 4th

Hi folks,

I'm sure many of you are aware of the Lunar eclipse taking place on May 4th. This rather strange eclipse will see the Moon rising in shadow at around 9pm and exiting the final phase just before midnight.

So any public Star Parties planned? One club is boasting setting up 9 locations around the country for this "Bring along a few euros to make a small donation and buy a copy of the club's magazine".

IFAS club events:
Tullamore Astronomical Society
Seannie Morris
half way between Tyrrellspass and Kilbeggan!
Contact Seannie Morris or TAS homepages.iol.ie/~seanmck/tas.htm

Shannonside Astronomy Club
Dave Lillis
Boher, Co. Limerick
Contact Dave Lillis or SAC www.geocities.com/shannonsideac/

IRISH ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Dublin SideWalk Astronomersof the I.A.S.
"BAD MOON RISING: LUNAR ECLIPSE"
Tuesday 4th May 2004
Public Star Party
Start 9.00pm,
at the Sandymount Tower car park, Dublin 4.
No Charge.

Cheers,
~Al

So any public Star Parties planned?

Well, I won't be hosting any star parties, but I would invite people to come to my house. I live in the countryside, half way between Tyrrellspass and Kilbeggan i.e. 3.5 miles from anywhere! I am renting, but the landlady on whose farm I am renting a small cottage said its no problem to go into one of the fields way off the main road. Easy access to get to as well.

Mite there be anyone reading this, who is in the area, who would like to come over for soup and sambo's and some astronomical frolicking in the fields?

Let me know soon. I am going to organise this through Tullamore Astronomical Society.

Of course, it will all be weather permitting. If its raining or even heavy cloud, I'd prefer not to go through the trouble of it... It'll only be worthwhile if its clear!

Seanie.

Hi All,
Shannonside will be having an eclipse watch up at our elevated observing site near Boher, Co. Limerick, All are welcome, we'll be meeting up as early as possible (for me, when I finish work) and getting our equipment ready, bring friends along if they want to come.
For those who dont know where it is, let me know and I can pass on directions.

Hi all,

Hope your planned eclipse watches went well. We here in Kerry Astronomy club had three sites scheduled. I was at the site just south of Tralee.
We first saw the moon at about 21:50 and saw most of the event in between the hail showers.

See the report on Our website follow the links to the observing page and the Gallery page.

Michael Scully KAC/SAC

Hope your planned eclipse watches went well.

Michael,
I think you were the only ones who may in fact have seen the eclipse! Some of Tullamore AS came out to Tyrrellspass (my house) and saw nothing but rain drops falling on the plain.

Some Irish guy called Murphy got his way again... :x

Feck it anyway!

Seanie.

same story in Dublin. The IAS and SDAS folks were out in force, and we had quite a crowd come up and chat to us, but unfortunately all people got to see were ships and howth lighthouse through the scopes.

Cheers,
~Al