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From: TerryMoselaol.com Date: 25 July 2006 18:48:09 BDT Subject: NLC Photos, Mark Bailey, Next TSE, Perseid BBQ, Scope 4 sale, Armagh Planetarium Hi all, 1. NLC PHOTOS Congratulations to two local amateur astronomers, Paul Evans from Larne, and Christopher Blair from Antrim, who had photos of the recent lovely Noctilucent Clouds (NLCs) published in the August issue of the BBC Sky at Night Magazine. In fact Christopher's was the "Hotshot Photo of the Month". (Sorry I wasn't able to issue any alerts about the NLCs: I was away from my PC at the relevant times) 2. PROF. MARK BAILEY: I've only just found out that Prof Mark Bailey, Director of Armagh Observatory, was the featured 'star' in "A Week in the Life of...." in the Belfast Telegraph's Jobfinder Section last Tuesday, 18 July). There's a 2-page feature on him & his job. It must have covered at least a few days, as he's wearing three different shirts & three different ties in the photos! You might be able to rescue a copy from the recycling bin, or read it online. 3. NEXT TSE: Just over 2 years to go to the next Total Solar Eclipse, on 1 August 2008! For those of you who don't know, the track starts high in the remote Canadian Arctic, touches the N tip of Greenland, passes across Novaya Zemlya in the Russian Arctic Ocean, then sweeps SE across Russia, briefly touches extreme W Mongolia, and ends in W China. КК Probably the best observing option is Novosibirsk in S Russia (3rd / 4th largest city in Russia), which is almost on the centre line, and can be reached in two flights from Ireland. It also hasКquite good weather prospects. A small sub-group in IFAS is looking at the observing & travel options. (What news, folks?) For those of you who are thinking of waiting until the East Asia eclipse the following year (22 July 2009), do a Google search on Typhoon Bilis and Typhoon Kaemi, or see the note at the bottom. While these areas are not exactly on the eclipse track of 2009, they are not far away, and the whole Eastern seaboard of China is liable to be hit by typhoons at that time of year! 4. PERSEIDS BBQ, CULTRA: The Perseids, the 'Old Faithful' of meteor showers, reaches maximum on 12th August. But the waning gibbous Moon is a nuisance this year, being a bright lamp in the sky that night, drowning out all but the brighter meteors. So it's not worth seeking out an exceptionally dark site to observe from, 'cos you can't escape the moonlight! So the IAA has chosen a moderately dark, but easily accessible, site for a fun / observing night. We'll be having a BBQ, followed by meteor observing, and whatever else you fancy, such as Jupiter if we can get it low down in the SW twilight, or even the Moon (we may as well turn adversity to our advantage!) - weather permitting of course! We'll be at the lower car park (between the main road and the sea) at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Cultra, between Belfast and Holywood on Saturday 12 August, at 8 p.m. We'll provide the BBQ to cook on - bring your own food & drink, plates, cutlery, glasses, chairs, etc. Come earlier if you want to bring your own portable BBQ & set it up. We should be ready to start cooking by about 8.30, finishing about 9.30, to give us time to clear things away, & then set up the telescopes. We'll then start observing as soon as it gets dark enough. Bring your own telescope & binocs if you can. If you want to do some proper meteor observing, bring a lounger or tilt-back chair so that you can look up comfortably at the sky for long periods. And wrap up warm - it can get quite cold late on, even in August! Of course if it's raining, or totally cloudy, the event will be cancelled. But if there's any reasonable amount of clear sky, we'll be there. (Next year the moonlight conditions for the Perseids are nearly perfect, so we'll be going to a good dark sky site such as Big Collin in Co Antrim, or Drumkeeragh in Co Down, or maybe both.) 5. SCOPE FOR SALE: Meade 10" LX200GPS with UHTC coatings. See http://www.meade.com/lx200gps/ for details. It comes with: Field Tripod 8x50 Finder Microfocuser 1.25" Diagonal 26mm Meade Super Plossl Eyepiece 9.7mm Meade Super Plossl Eyepiece Meade Autostar Suite (Lunar Plantetary Imager & Autostar Suite Software) External heavy-duty 12V power supply (i.e. rechargable portable car battery) All items are "as new" and telescope is in original packaging. Cost approx £2,850 so offers somewhere in the region £2,000 or about €3350. Contact: Neil Kelleher, 49 Seabury, Sandymount, Dublin 4, Mobile: +353 85 174 4542 kneil
eircom.net 6. ARMAGH PLANETARIUM: Yes, at last, Armagh Planetarium will be re-opening to the public on 31 July, after its major revamp and refurbishment. Should be well worth seeing, and the shows presented with the new Digistar 3 are supposed to be superb! Advance booking is required. See details on www.armaghplanet.com. Clear Skies, Terry Moseley
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