According to eclipse chasers you can count seeing a solar eclipse, just by being in the path of totality. So technically my trip to Cornwall, UK in 1999 for the Solar Eclipse there counts. Despite it being raining for the morning of the eclipse. The next total Solar Eclipse that I managed to get to […]
Dave McDonald sent a post to the Irish Astronomy forum the other day announcing that he had confirmed a supernova. As with many sciences once you make a discovery, it needs to be verified before you are taken seriously, and Dave was asked to verify the discovery and did so with rather modest equipment. The
I dont usually put up non computing topics, but since this talk is well worth attending… We are delighted to announce that we have got the well known and eminent Guy Consolmagno to give us our talk next Thursday in Gonzaga. Guy is speaking at Whirlpool in Birr which begins on the Friday after our
Dublin played host to the 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation. Up until a few days before the event only the professionals and amateur astronomers were aware of the event. What was organised well in advance were the public lectures, on the opening day of the conference, Kip Thorne, best known publicly for