Jupiter to brighten the night sky
But isn’t astronomy in Ireland essentially a redundant hobby due to the cloud cover? We might get two days a year without cloud, the rest of the time we’re covered in the stuff.
“Look there’s the Big Dipper. No, wait. That’s a cloud. There’s Orion’s Belt. Oh, sorry, cloud.”
August 19th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
Yes it is redundant, as is the expensive telescope sitting in my attic which a salesman convinced me that I’d see someone scratch their ass on the moon with. I couldn’t even see the moon.
August 19th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Astronomers? I hate the anoraky cunts.
August 19th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Yeah, provocative cunts.
August 19th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
“Look there’s the Big Dipper. No, wait. That’s a cloud. There’s Orion’s Belt. Oh, sorry, cloud.”
So emmigrate if you don’t like Irish clouds.
August 19th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
I’m not an astronomer.
August 19th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
It’s a risk-reward sort of thing. A single clear evening out in the country makes up for ten of the normal sort.
August 19th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
some fecking reward! Looking at dots in the sky ?
August 19th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
The other day I was gazing up at the night sky, a purple vault fretted with a myriad points of light twinkling in wondrous formation, while shooting stars streaked across the heavens, and I thought: I really must repair the roof on this toilet.
August 19th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Yes and whilst you’re outside looking up at the sky some get is in your house robbing your cd’s and peeing on your bed….
August 19th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Cheer up, lad. You can always download your own planetarium quite easily here
August 19th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
I would like to be the first to mention Uranus. That’s it. Move along.
August 20th, 2007 at 5:34 am
We canna cee da Southern Cross evertwy nite we canna do din hare in Neew Zland. Mah bird cees plenty of um stars evertney tyme I lay her down in da grren gras of ome.
August 20th, 2007 at 6:33 am
you can buy your own star when the buke becomes a seller