Winter Solstice today 12:42am

international | miscellaneous | event notice Tuesday December 21, 2004 02:12 by aurora

The Winter Solstice takes place on Tuesday (December 21) at 12:42pm

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most text taken from astronomy ireland

see image from last year here
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2003/1222/

The Winter Solstice takes place on Tuesday (December 21) at 12:42pm and astronomy ireland have been invited on to the Gerry Ryan Show on 2FM radio
to talk about it, and the Star of Bethlehem Mystery.



Each winter solstice a few members of astronomy ireland gather at the James Joyce Sundial on Sandymount strand in Dublin each year in the hope of
catching a glimpse of the Sun rising over the aligned stones at 8:22am. I've been there a couple of times myself.

Newgrange had 24,000 applications this year from visitors to the Bru na Boinne centre to see the winter solstice sunrise from inside
the chamber at Newgrange (Co. Meath).

Armagh Observatory/Planetarium has modern day stones aligned with the Solstices also, in the AstroPark.

If you know of any other solstice alignments in Ireland let me know, these are just off the top of my head.







A.I.R.S. - every Tues at 8pm
And speaking of radio shows, the ASTRONOMY IRELAND RADIO SHOW goes out on Anna Livia radio every Tuesday at 8pm and is repeated
Thursdays at 11am.
Tune in to 103.2FM in the Leinster area or go to http://www.astronomy.ie/radioshow.html if you live anywhere else. Last week's show
is already online.