The black hole....

[ronan]

Doesn't appear to be having activity since April this year, but I would be confident that as the darker nights are upon us the site will come to life again. You also might be interested in "Star Gazers Lounge" which is UK based or "Cloudy Nights" which is USA based; both major Astronomy / Observing websites for the hobby.

Yeah but everything is tiny over here in comparison to the UK. Even fairly popular passtimes, and their forums are pretty dead.

 

[Turbo]

Doesn't appear to be having activity since April this year, but I would be confident that as the darker nights are upon us the site will come to life again. You also might be interested in "Star Gazers Lounge" which is UK based or "Cloudy Nights" which is USA based; both major Astronomy / Observing websites for the hobby.

There is a NI astro forum that was busy but is more or less dead now, apart from an Italian who posts random astro news stories but I think even he has stopped too! I think they now arrange most of their events through facebook, which I detest & refuse to join!

It is a fairly small astro here community but most of the members are based around Belfast, 80 miles from me so I rarely met up with them. But one time they showed me a great dark sky site about 30 miles from me near Clogher. It was a place called Bragan which is a small mountain with a decent lane running over it & a picnic area at the top. It is very remote, no light pollution & a low skyline, absolutely perfect for stargazing. It was the best viewing I've ever seen, I was finding nebulae I never saw before. Unfortunately the weather turned baltic & we had to finish early due to a biting wind freezing everything up.

 

[JontyUK]

Just to put it into perspective:
To count to a Trillion would take 31,000 years!

 

[voipio]

Find your nearest dark sky site here:

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info