1. TG4 ASTRONOMY SHOW Our Irish language speakers Gearoid O Cribin and Eamonn O'Fearchain will be interviewed all about astronomy on TG4 on Saturday (Oct. 29) at 10:05pm on the "Ardan" TV show - TG4's equivalent of "The Late Late Show". Eamonn will have his Celestron 8 on the show and there could be other Celestron telescopes from our Shop on display also. They want you to join in so for audience tickets call Louise at 087-7592713 office hours. 2. A.I. Radio Show Did anyone record last Tuesday's edition of the Astronomy Ireland Radio Show (AIRS)? We missed the first few minutes as you may have heard if you downloaded it from www.astronomy.ie/radioshow.html Every Tuesday at 8pm AIRS will give you all the latest news of discoveries made about our universe and tell you what to see in the sky each week. 3. MARS WATCH HELPERS Nine Mars Watches will take place at the following locations countrywide on Friday Nov. 4 but we need a bit of help: Co. Carlow - Carlow town Co. Clare - Kilmihil Co. Cork - Carrigaline Co. Donegal - Letterkenny Co. Dublin - Phoenix Park Co. Louth - Dundalk Co. Roscommon - Boyle Co. Waterford - Waterford city Co. Wexford - Rosslare Strand (full details of Mars Watches at www.astronomy.ie/marswatchNov05.html ) We need people to assist our Co-Ordinator in each area. Can you hand out leaflets? If so please email tom@astronomy.ie and give your landline and mobile contact numbers please. Thanks very much as it should be a really exciting event as Mars is incredible in a telescope at present. A group of us have been getting amazing views in telescopes over the past days and weeks and of course Mars is at its very closest in the coming week. So please help us to show Mars to more people on November 4 and volunteer a bit of help today, thanks. email tom now please. PLEASE JOIN OUR SOCIETY TO SUPPORT PROMOTING ASTRONOMY IN IRELAND AT www.astronomy.ie THE ASTRONOMY SHOP - open until 6pm SATURDAY (and Mon-Fri 9:30-17:30) GET READY FOR MARS! FOR ADVICE ON VIEWING ITS HISTORIC CLOSE APPROACH AND TELESCOPE SALES CALL (01) 847 0777