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History

The Irish Astronomical Journal was originally published as a quarterly magazine by the Irish Astronomical Society starting in 1950. It was planned as a mainly non-technical review of modern astronomical knowledge and related subjects, with special reference to astronomy in Ireland. Its contents were to be such as to interest the general reader or amateur and the professional or specialist, as well as to give outlines of astronomical problems to scientists in other fields.

The first editor was Dr Ernst Opik (Armagh Observatory) and the journal was published in eight issues per volume covering two years. By the mid-1960s the Irish Astronomical Journal had become the renowned publication that it is today, with its particular flavour of Opikian charm and genius. In the 1950s and 1960s, the journal also provided a means for publicizing worldwide the research activities and some of the results from the Armagh-Dunsink-Harvard 32/36-inch Schmidt Telescope with its objective prism, the largest in the southern hemisphere at the time.

After some administrative and financial difficulties in 1960-1962, the journal was published under the auspices of the Armagh and Dunsink Observatories and gained considerable support from international institutions.

The journal continued publication under this directorship until 1994 when Armagh Observatory withdrew support for the journal. However the IAJ was saved by the constitution of a new independent board who undertook the continuation of the journal from the beginning of 1995. The journal was relaunched with an entirely new format and since then has been successful in continuing a publication with increased support from around the world. Although today emphasis is naturally on results from Irish researchers the IAJ has retained its committment to the amateur reader and regularly produces articles of a general or historial flavour.

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