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Some say Cork, Ireland is the Centre of the Universe. Join Cork Astronomy Club, we can show you there is a little bit more to it than that....
30.11.2025 21:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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)
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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.
17.11.2025 21:34 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Sunspots update, Sun today-RN is 114. X class alert continues….
15.11.2025 21:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sunspots, update, There was yet another strong Xclass flare earlier today.
14.11.2025 21:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Club member Jan captured this beautiful image of the Auroras last night.
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The Earth and the moon pictured here by the NASA Phyche probe from about 180 million miles away. It’s so small.
12.11.2025 19:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Large crowd tonight for a public lecture. Thank you to Dr Beiler for fantastic talk.
10.11.2025 22:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
08.11.2025 20:13 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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
02.11.2025 21:09 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Moon phases for November.
01.11.2025 21:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sunspots update, Sun today-RN is 68. Still no action…🎃🎃
31.10.2025 19:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sunspots update Sun Today- RN is 99. All sunspots are stable…..
25.10.2025 20:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
23.10.2025 20:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
☀️ sunspots update, Sun today-RN is 107. No activity worth reporting…
22.10.2025 21:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Club member Jan lucky enough to catch a glimpse of Auroras.
18.10.2025 20:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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….
14.10.2025 20:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you Blackrock Castle Observatory for letting us borrow Alan for fantastic lecture on Photometry in front of a full house.
13.10.2025 21:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
12.10.2025 17:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
06.10.2025 13:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
04.10.2025 21:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sunspots update, Sun today-RN is still 161. Chance of X class flares.
03.10.2025 21:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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/
