| The second Star-B-Q of the Year took place on August
26 in Roundwood GAA Club in County Wicklow. The event this year
was professionally catered by Dublin Food Sales who did an excellent
job of feeding the masses. August 26 was the first possible date
for the event. As always media interest in the event was
enormous. The possibility of an appearance of the Northern
Lights only helped to heighten the excitement. In all over 500
people came to hear lectures, eat great food and get a view of the
heavens.
David Moore's lecture "The Universe" was the first event
and the lecture hall was packed almost to capacity for this.
This was followed by Emlyn Jones's lecture "How to get started in
Astronomy". Tony
Ryan did get some breaks in the cloud to give his naked eye "Walk
through the Heavens". Skies were partly
clear to begin with, some clouds rolled in, but later on it cleared up
beautifully and fantastic views were had of the wonders of the
universe like the Ring Nebula, galaxies, globular clusters, the
Dumbbell nebula, the Wild Duck cluster, double stars, the planets Mars
and even Uranus and Neptune which clearly showed disks despite their
enormous distance. Even the Moon was viewed later on when it rose. Our
next big event are Eclipse Watches
nationwide on October 3.
**For anyone
that was at the Star-B-Q on Friday 26 that would like to come
along on one of our weekend telescope nights call (01) 8470777 after
4pm and before 5pm on Friday any week. As these events are
weather dependent and response dependent they do not happen every
weekend. We would love to have you come along. The venue
will not necessarily be the same as the Star-B-Q so check when you
ring in.
All pictures courtesy of Eoin
Sutton
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| David Moore's Lecture to a packed Hall. |
Barbequed Food at its best. |
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| Tony Ryan pointing out the wonders of the heavens. |
Part of the crowd of over 500 people. |
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| Amy Farrar(on right director of the AI Junior
section) at the
event |
Hungry Star-B-Qers being fed (Event was sponsored
by Dublin Food Sales Ltd.) |
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