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Welcome to the Irish Federation of Astronomical Societies (IFAS), an umbrella group of Astronomical Clubs & Societies throughout Ireland represented and helped here. Through this website, you can avail of:
- Chat Forums for getting/offering tips, tricks and sharing news and events.
- Club and Society nationwide events, posted in one easy-to-find website.
- Upcoming astronomical highlights and events.
- Buy & Sell for private individuals.
- Monthly Sponsored Astrophotography Competitions for great prizes.
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November's Astrophotography Competition target: Orion and its Environs
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November's target for our competition this month is Orion and its Environs: Deep Sky, with a great prize on offer of a copy of Observing the Night Sky with Binoculars, a copy of Turn Left at Orion, and any size from the Helios Solana range of binoculars, kindly sponsored by Ktec Telescopes Ltd.
To vote on the entries, or take part in our competition, you must be a registered member of our forums. Registration is free, and takes less than 2 minutes.
Vote for the best image of October Soon!
Many thanks to our other monthly sponsor, Scopes & SPace Ltd. for their continued support.
IFAS Astronomer of the Year 2012
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Congratulations to Ronan Newman, prominent member of Galway Astronomy Club and (lately) renowned 'aurora hunter', who has been voted for by his peers as the IFAS Astronomer of the Year 2012. Well done Ronan! Read more here.
And the IFAS Astronomer of the Year 2013 is...
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The nominations came in, the votes were cast, and the IFAS Astronomer of the Year 2013 is Carl O'Beirne!
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- Observations - 31st May 2020
- Good evening, everyone. Here is my report of what I observed on Sunday evening 31st May 2020 for a...
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- Lunar Sketch 5 of 12: Tycho
- Hi Aubrey, Very many thanks for your nice message. I didn't know that Tycho is 4850 meters deep....
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- ISS Lunar transit
- Nice job Finbarr! Looking at the Moon phase I'd guess that after the docking of the Crew Dragon so...
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- 6 doubles + one triple in Corona Borealis
- You're very kind Aubrey, as they say 'it takes two to tango'. In saying that, this forum has been...
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- Venus Farewell
- Hi Paul, that's a great video of Venus setting. Well done, and clear skies, Darren.
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- Observations - 28th May 2020
- Indeed 1.3% illumination is a razor-thin crescent Aubrey; in March 2017 I managed a 1% illumination...
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- Wanted: EQ5 Tripod
- Hi all I'm looking for an EQ5 tripod to mount my Skytee II head upon. It must have the spreader...
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