Hi all,
I saw that there's a few people in the "hobbies other than motorhoming" thread with an interest in the dark skies above.
We were down on Valentia island at the weekend (unfortunately not in the MH) but attended an "Introduction to the Dark Skies" talk. Whilst it was too cloudy to see anything, the talk itself was brilliant!
He noted two events that I thought might be of interest to a few people!
Messier Marathon - March 24th and 25th (if this means nothing to you have a look here! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_marathon ) and the site for this event: http://www.kerrydarkskytourism.com/
and also
The Skellig Star Party: skelligstarparty.com 18th-21st August 2017. the website is a bit slow to load so here's a quick snippit:
"In May of 2014 a group of like minded Amateur Astronomers from Clubs around the country got together to hold the first Irish Open Star Party. The obvious choice of location was Europe's only Gold Tier Dark Sky Reserve, right here, in the South West of Ireland. From that simple idea grew the Skellig Star Party, and moving on from it's 2014 success we have decided to make it an Annual event.
There is plenty for all to do over the weekend as talks/workshops will take place on the Saturday afternoon followed by a table-quiz, as well as a BBQ on the Friday evening, Saturday morning/evening in aid of Barnardo's."
Not sure if we'll make either ourselves, but wanted to let everyone know
I saw that there's a few people in the "hobbies other than motorhoming" thread with an interest in the dark skies above.
We were down on Valentia island at the weekend (unfortunately not in the MH) but attended an "Introduction to the Dark Skies" talk. Whilst it was too cloudy to see anything, the talk itself was brilliant!
He noted two events that I thought might be of interest to a few people!
Messier Marathon - March 24th and 25th (if this means nothing to you have a look here! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_marathon ) and the site for this event: http://www.kerrydarkskytourism.com/
and also
The Skellig Star Party: skelligstarparty.com 18th-21st August 2017. the website is a bit slow to load so here's a quick snippit:
"In May of 2014 a group of like minded Amateur Astronomers from Clubs around the country got together to hold the first Irish Open Star Party. The obvious choice of location was Europe's only Gold Tier Dark Sky Reserve, right here, in the South West of Ireland. From that simple idea grew the Skellig Star Party, and moving on from it's 2014 success we have decided to make it an Annual event.
There is plenty for all to do over the weekend as talks/workshops will take place on the Saturday afternoon followed by a table-quiz, as well as a BBQ on the Friday evening, Saturday morning/evening in aid of Barnardo's."
Not sure if we'll make either ourselves, but wanted to let everyone know
