Welcome to the SHANNONSIDE ASTRONOMY CLUB website.
Founded in 1986, Shannonside Astronomy Club (SAC) has been Serving the needs of 
astronomers in the Midwest of Ireland by providing an exciting array of activities that include
group observing sessions, outstanding lectures at our club meetings, workshops, star parties,
public educational events and much more.
Please use the links to the left to navigate through the site & thanks for stopping by!


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Dave Lillis, Shannonside Astronomy Club's observing director gives a talk on NLC's for the clubs July meeting 2009. 
This clip shows short excerpts from that talk.

Members astrophotos 
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Club member image used on Spaceweather.com

On the 16th of June club, our observing director Dave Lillis had one of his excellent NLC images
used on the main page of the well known astronomy site 'Spaceweather'.

See the Club News section for more.......