Athlone
I'm happy to report that it was a successful evening in Athlone. The southwest had clear spells at around 18.30 but clouded up by 18.45- before the scope was even set up. Cloud cover was persistent but we got the odd break, here and there. Around 19.20 we got our first glimpse of Jupiter and its moons. The skies from the car park were very heavily light polluted but we still managed to see the North and South equatorial belts, Europa, Callisto and Ganymede. As the seeing was so poor we couldn't make out the Io transit. It was a bit frustrating as it was only brief glimpses here and there. The small crowd that gathered all got to see Jupiter and its moons. For some it was their first time using a scope and they naturally were delighted. I think there was 7 or 8 in attendance over the 2 hours I had the scope set up.

Cork
The Cork Jupiter Watch went extremely well. Clouds gave way to crisp clear views of the King of Planets, four moons, with the smallest (presumably Io) very close to the planet's eastern limb. The Northern Temperate Band was prominent, as was the absence still of the Southern Band. On the night, seeing was difficult enough due to a northerly breeze, but it didn't deter about a dozen people of all ages from enjoying something special. We also checked out M45, The Pleiades, comparing with binoculars and telescopes at low magnification. Light pollution prevented us from seeing anything more than a blur when pointing to M31, the Great Nebula in Orion. All in all the meeting was a great sucess.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Cork Watch began later than expected. We apologise for any incovenience caused.

Donegal
Jupiter put on a good show while I was setting up the telescopes and people saw it with the 25x100 binoculars, but it was soon hidden by clouds. I did a talk about buying binoculars/telescopes and the different types of them while we waited for the clouds to clear. The clouds did break and the people did get a chance to see Jupiter through a 5inch maksutov-cassegrain and the 180ED Onyx refractor at low power, so people did get to see Jupiter & the moons. 13 people turned up.

Dublin
About one hundred people turned up at Phoenix Park on Wednesday. Even though it was too cloudy to see Jupiter, people stayed for a couple of hours and enjoyed telescope demonstrations, a PowerPoint talk about Jupiter by Eamonn Ó Fearcháin, and a talk about astronomy by David Moore.

Dundalk
Unfortunately I have nothing to report from the Louth Watch - we had cloud and occasional drizzle but no Jupiter. Fingers crossed for a clearer night for the next event!

Kerry
Report in preparation

Kildare
Over 15 people attended the Athy watch, short glimpses were to be had of Jupiter early on but cloud then rolled in. Attendees were treated to a display of Stellarium and a talk about Jupiter. 3 people held on til 10pm but no luck with clouds. As usual at around half past ten with everyone gone home...beautiful clear skies were to be seen....a great evening overall with many vowing to return for the next watch.

Sligo
The Sligo watch went very well, the skies were claer and a good group of people turned out for the event, with more arriving as the evening went on, we all got a look at Jupiter and seen its cloud belts and some of its moons, we then turned the scope on the orion nebula which was also a brilliant sight, and near the end of the evening we got out the binoculars and were able to get a look at M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, which went down a treat. A good evening had by all!

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