Blackrock Castle will be hoisted our clubs Astrophotography exhibition for the month of May. So please call up to castle to get a view of some our club members photos.

Venus and the crescent moon yesterday evening.

Three years since Juice launched on its journey to Jupiter. 🧪🔭 Arriving in 2031, it will explore the giant planet and its icy ocean moons, seeking to study them as both planetary objects and possible habitats. More info 👇 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Last night Dr Hans Huybrighs delivered a fantastic presentation on the importance of the exploration and potential discoveries that a wait us on the Icy moons of Jupiter. A big Thank you Hans and thanks to all who attended. We will be back for our final lecture of the series in May. We

About to start ! #Astronomy #ucc #aliens #ocean #cork

Our next public lecture from Cork Astronomy Club, will be examining the possibility that some of the solar system's icy moons may harbour life. Dr Hans Huybrighs. Will give his talk titled. “20,000 Leagues Under an Alien Ocean”.The date is Monday 13th April, 8 pm at UCC

In descending order of distance we have: Artemis II - 406,788 km Apollo 13 - 400,171 km Apollo 10 - 399,115 km Apollo 17 - 399,110 km Apollo 16 - 398,920 km Apollo 15 - 397,344 km Apollo 12 - 390,660 km Apollo 11 - 389,920 km Apollo 14 - 385,149 km Apollo 8 - 377,349 km

These amazing photos of Earth and the far side of the moon were taken by Artemis 2. Artemis II is now the furthest that humans have travelled from Earth.

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

Last night at around 11:20pm.NASA launched Artemis 2 in Earth 🌍 orbit. Artemis 2 will continue on to moon and then back to Earth again over next few days. Congratulations NASA. Go Artemis

Club members traveled to Dunsink Observatory this week for a club outing. The club organises outings to different venues once every year.

Happy birthday 🎂 Albert Einstein

A reminder that you are invited to our public lecture tomorrow night at 8pm. “The universe through the quotes of Carl Sagan”, by MTU’s Dr Niall Smith.

“The universe through the quotes of Carl Sagan”, by MTU’s Dr Niall Smith. Niall has long been a favourite speaker in our calendar, and as it is now several years since we have welcomed him to our Club,there will be great eagerness to hear from him again. The date is Monday 9th March, 8 pm.

Phase of the moon for the month of March.

CLUB MEMBERS WERE EXTREMELY LUCKY TO BE Given ACCESS TO THE CRAWFORD OBSERVATORY IN ON THE UCC GROUNDS. @ucc.ie

On 14th of February 1990 this photo was taken by Voyager 1 and it know as pale blue dot. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

On the 18th February as sun is setting.It will be a very nice conjunction to see. But Saturn will be very difficult to see.Please take care if you’re using binoculars or telescope at this time the sun will be still above the horizon. And looking directly at the sun will do damage to your eyes sight

Thank you to all who attended the public lecture on Monday evening. Our next public lecture will be March and we are equally looking forward to it as we were to Mondays one. We will have MTU’s Dr Niall Smith and he will be giving a talk about the legendary Dr Carl Sagan.

Big thank you to Prof Paul Callahan for his fantastic talk last night. We had full house. And club is always happy to welcome him back for another one of his public lectures.

On Monday, where you will be welcome, UCC’s Prof Paul Callanan will discuss the current state and future promise of the imaginatively named Extremely Large Telescope at Cerro Armazones, a mountain at an altitude of 3,046 metres in Chile’s Atacama Desert.It is in the process of being built by ESO

It's just over a year since we joined @bsky.app. Check out our updated #StarterPack and see what's changed!

Prof Paul Callanan returns to give another public lecture this day next week. For more check out the full details in link 🔗 below corkastronomyclub.com/calendar/

Phases of the moon for the month of February.

The future of the Extremely Large Telescope On 9th February, UCC’s Prof Paul Callanan will discuss the current state and future promise of the Telescope high up on a mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert. This is will be Paul’s 30th annual lecture to the Club. corkastronomyclub.com/events/the-e...

Last night club members and their families were out catching fantastic photos of the Auroras from parts of the county. It’s so beautiful to see the Aurora and incredibly special to have them visible over Cork. Photo courtesy of club members Lynda Aiden John R. Kerry Ann.

Last night in UCC we had our first public lecture of 2026. The club would like to thank our main guest speaker Dr Evert Nasedkin for his fantastic talk on how to take photo of an Exoplanet. Thank you to all who were in attendance.

We are back for our first public lecture of the new year 2026 in UCC

Today the 10th of January Jupiter is at opposition. For more details on this visit the link www.space.com/stargazing/j...

Declan C. Captured this image of the grandfather of our solar system Jupiter on 3rd of January. On the left of Jupiter, you can see Europa. One the 4 Galilean moons.

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