Peter Household
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What’s even more important to Irish amateur astronomers than if Jupiter’s moons are all in a row? The weather! Meteorologists Evelyn Cusack and Séamus Walsh will open our new season of public lectures on 8th September with a talk entitled “THEY SAY IT MIGHT RAIN = The Highs and Lows of Ireland’s Weather and Climate”. Evelyn retired from forecasting in 2023… “read more”
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Monday next (12th May) is our final public lecture of the current season, and it’s designated Members Night. We shall have two short presentations from Club members Karl Grabe and Betty Higgs (small image). Karl will talk about “Sputnik to AI Robots” and will bring along a couple of demos to examine close-up at the close of the meeting. And… “read more”
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A partial solar eclipse will occur on Saturday March 29th. In Cork it will occur between 10.00 and noon with the maximum occurring at 10.55, when over one third of the Sun will be obscured by the Moon. Cork Astronomy Club will hold a public eclipse watch in the courtyard of Blackrock Castle starting at 9.30 a.m. There will be… “read more”
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Ireland can witness a brief total lunar eclipse early Friday morning. However, dawn twilight will make it difficult to see and the Moon will set while still in total eclipse. Times for an observer from Cork, Friday 14th March 2025: 03:57 Moon enters penumbra (partial shadow) of Earth 05:09 Moon enters umbra (full shadow) of Earth, appears to darken 06:26 Moon… “read more”
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Join astrophotographer Sara Harvey (photo below) for Irish Astronomy Week! – winner of the 2023 Irish astrophotography competition ‘Reach for the Stars’. Saturday, March 8 at 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm, in City Library on Grand Parade Sara’s presentation “Our Galaxy and Beyond: Deep Space Photography” will be on capturing images of the night sky from Nebulae, to dust, star… “read more”
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See our exhibition of astrophotography on display at Douglas Library for the months of March and April 2025. All photos are the work Cork Astronomy Club members. Main picture: Club members put the finishing touches to the exhibition on 3rd March Part of Cork Astronomy Club’s contribution to Irish Astronomy Week – 1-8 March 2025 “read more”
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Masters student Sorcha Kennelly of UCC will present a talk “Cosmic Spiders – a deadly binary dance”. Starting with a history lesson and overview of neutron star physics, she will discuss spiders, the binary star systems with neutron stars that are challenging precisely how massive neutron stars can be. She will delve into the interesting properties and behaviours of these… “read more”
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“Gravitational waves, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), and extreme mass ratio inspirals” was the title of our March public lecture. We were delighted to welcome Dr Niels Warburton, Assistant Professor at University College Dublin and a member of the LISA Consortium. Main image: Artist’s conception of LISA spacecraft (NASA). Small images: left, Neils opens his lecture, and right centre,… “read more”
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Prof Paul Callanan will give a public lecture with the mysterious title of the “The Third Test”. (Don’t ask us because we don’t know either—you’ll have to come along to see for yourself.) Paul is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UCC and an honorary member of Cork Astronomy Club, and we are delighted to welcome him back for this… “read more”
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For our fiirst lectire of 2025, Dr Michael Tremmel boggled many minds by telling us about the massive galaxies and black holes discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) unexpectedly early in the universe’s history, giving an insight into how astronomers go about observing massive black holes at such early times, JWST’s ongoing discoveries in this field, and the… “read more”