Exoplanets will be the focus our public lecture on Monday 12th of January. corkastronomyclub.com

We are back with our public lectures on the 12th of January. How to take a picture of an exoplanet” by Dr Evert Nasedkin of Trinity College Dublin (pictured). Check our website for more. corkastronomyclub.com

Today at around 5pm, The Earth was at its closest point in its orbit of Sun to the Sun. For the next 6 months we will move away from the Sun. ☀️ Astronomy fact of he day.

Happy new year from everyone @corkastronomyclub.bsky.social. Hope you all have many clear night skies.

Merry Christmas and happy new year from everyone in Cork Astronmy club. And remember we will be back in January with our public lectures.

Sunset this evening by the Lough by club member Paul.

Visit our YouTube channel for some our public lectures Here the link to one uploaded recently. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP-a...

Cork Astronomy Club (a group for amateur astronomers interested in stars, planets, space exploration, and the history of astronomy; part of the Irish Federation of Astronomical Societies) leaves X (1.583 followers) Bluesky: @corkastronomyclub.bsky.social

The Club has decided to focus its social media efforts on other platforms, so will be leaving X shortly. We thank all our followers for their support and the sharing of wonderful Astronomy stories, and hope you continue to support us on Facebook, Instagram and BlueSky.

Sunspots update, Sun today-RN is 114. X class alert continues….

Sunspots, update, There was yet another strong Xclass flare earlier today.

Club member Jan captured this beautiful image of the Auroras last night.

The Earth and the moon pictured here by the NASA Phyche probe from about 180 million miles away. It’s so small.

Large crowd tonight for a public lecture. Thank you to Dr Beiler for fantastic talk.

Sunspots update, Sun today-RN is 107. Continued likelyhood of X class flares…. Photo taken by Jan and processed by Gary and both are members of our club.

Monday evening

Sunspots update, Sun today-RN is 87. 4274 exploded earlier with X 1.7 flare. Chance of flares…

Monday November 10th at 7:50pm in UCC. Come join us for the next public lecture in our season. For more details check out our website corkastronomyclub.com

Moon phases for November.

Happy Halloween from everyone at Cork Astronmy club

Sunspots update, Sun today-RN is 68. Still no action…🎃🎃

Sunspots update Sun Today- RN is 99. All sunspots are stable…..

Clear Skies over Cork this evening and we many members out in their own backyards looking at Comet C/2025 (Lemmon) through binoculars and telescopes. And they are also having a peak at the planet Saturn.

☀️ sunspots update, Sun today-RN is 107. No activity worth reporting…

Club member Jan lucky enough to catch a glimpse of Auroras.

Sunspots update, Sun today-RN is 122. The 4246 gas expanded and now has energy for X class flares. It has sent already at least 2 CMEs towards Earth….

Thank you Blackrock Castle Observatory for letting us borrow Alan for fantastic lecture on Photometry in front of a full house.

A reminder that you are welcome at our monthly public lecture, tomorrow Monday 13th October. It's at 8 p.m. in UCC’s Ashley Cummins Building (formerly known as Civil Engineering). Please arrive 10 minutes early, and you'll be welcome to stay for tea and a chat when the meeting closes at 9.45.

Sunspots update, Sun today-RN is 81. New sunspot 4248 is growing rapidly and has already energy to produce M class flares… Courtesy SOHO/Space Weather..

Sunspots update, Sun today-RN is 136. A small chance of M class flares… Still the only image available from SOHO….

One week to go and I can’t wait.

Sunspots update, Sun today-RN is 150. Chance of M class flares…. Still no images….🫩

Thank you Blackrock Castle observatory for hoisting a fantastic event today in Corks school of music.

Sunspots update, Sun today-RN is still 161. Chance of X class flares.

Our next public lecture is on 13th of October and we have special guest from Blackrock castle observatory. For more details visit our website corkastronomyclub.com/calendar/

Want to learn more about us. Visit our website @ corkastronomyclub.com/about/

Sunspots update, Sun today-RN is 155. 4 out of 10 groups are able to produce flares-however Sun is quiet…

Sun today-RN is 172. There are 12 groups on Sun’s disc…

Cork Astronomy Club are back in full swing. New club members are always welcome to join us. Here is a small group of us doing some observing of Saturn 🪐.

Sunspots update, Sun today-RN is 155. Chance of flares… Photo is courtesy of Club member Jan.

This comet (SWAN 25B) was discovered as it passed in the field of view of one of instruments monitoring Sun from orbit only a few days ago.It is visible from Southern Hemisphere but will be in Virgo by the weekend,unfortunately still too close to the Sun.The image above was taken from Namibia.

Sunspots update, Sun today-RN is 67. All is quiet….

Sunspots update, Sun today-RN is 92. The new sunspot group 4216 has potential to unleash flares…

Sunspots update, Sun today-RN is 93. Chance of flares. Courtesy of Jan processed by Garry, both members of our club.

Last night we open are new season of public lectures. Big thank you to our speakers Evelyn Cusack and Séamus Walsh. For a very informative and interesting talk. Thank you also to everyone who attended and also special thank you to our chair of 19years who stepped down this year. Peter Household.

And our public lecture series is back in UCC.

Partial Lunar Eclipse this evening. Here is link for details. I doubt Cork going to see much with this weather we are having. www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/i...

Sunspots update, Sun today-RN is 128. Chance of flares…. Courtesy SOHO..