Christmas Gifts Membership DVD Shop Places Available for Armagh Planetarium Day Trip There are still places left for our extremely popular annual day trip to the Armagh Planetarium- one of the best in the world! If you haven't booked yet, just come along to the Astronomy Ireland Shop on Saturday morning at 9:30am and you can pay for your place then. Armagh Planetarium is a world-class facility with an amazing state-of-the-art, multi-million pound DigiStar III projector. As well as this, the planetarium has a huge visitor centre and exhibition area, the AstroPark, and Armagh Observatory. We are lucky to have such a facility on this island! On arrival to the planetarium, David Moore will bring guests on a guided tour of the nearby AstroPark, containing scale models of the Solar System and the Universe. On the grounds of Armagh Observatory is a "Human Orrery" where people will get to play the part of the planets to explain how the Solar System moves. Following this, we will be treated to a special planetarium show titled 'Beyond the Blue: A Stargazing Journey' in the excellent Star Theatre. Armagh Planetarium has a highly interactive visitor centre with impressive displays of spacecraft, meteorites, and the Earth itself. There is a café at the visitor centre where you can enjoy some lunch, and the planetarium shop has a great selection of souvenirs for your day trip. The bus will depart the Astronomy Ireland Shop on Saturday morning at 10am, and we should be back in Dublin by approximately 6:30pm. The price of the trip to Armagh is €40 per person including admission and coach fare. For more information and to book your place visit www.astronomy.ie, call us on (01) 890 11 11, or simply come to the Astronomy Ireland Shop on Saturday morning at 9:30am. Astronomy Ireland The world's most popular astronomy club www.astronomy.ie ( subscribe / unsubscribe )