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Community group showcasing the environment, maintaining dark skies & reducing light pollution, based in Erris County Mayo

✅️Fun, free dark sky walks

✅Family friendly activity, all year round

️✅️ Exploring our connection to the natural world at night!

04/11/2026

Have you ever encountered a spraybow? Just like a rainbow but made of sea spray, either thrown into the air, or riding along on a wave, both of which were visible in the surf at sunset 😍💭🌊🌈

As usual, the camera doesn't catch half the colour that was hanging in the air, the eery green haze emanating from the edges of the setting Sun, or the flashes of bright light, like fireflies, as the golden rays were magnified for mere milliseconds on the crests of the gentle rolling waves...

Magical things happen in the Golden Hour... 🔮

03/11/2026

Last night was a brilliantly clear night for stargazing and we had a choice of Messier Objects to track. This is M31 - the Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest galaxy to our own Milky Way... and its only 2 MILLION light years away 🫨

Incredible what we can see from the Mullet Peninsula, County Mayo, on a clear November night! 🪐

03/11/2026

A lively skein of Barnacle Geese heading to Inis Gluaire for the night as the golden Sun sets on County Mayo and the wild West Coast of Ireland!

Sound up to hear their noisy journey!

02/11/2026

Twilight aurora or nacreous clouds?!

These pretty trails streaked overhead just after sunset, moving fast and shimmering across the sky in the direction of Achill.... is it nacreous, or could it be the twilight aurora? The colour started behind us and the layered laces came dancing around until the whole sky was pink. Any weather experts or cloud observers that might shed some light on what we watched?

Did anyone else catch the relatively short-lived dancing pink cloud curtains phenomenon?

02/11/2026

Another reason to explore Erris at dusk... these mesmerising murmurations 😊💭🦅

01/11/2026

✨ 2,000 followers?! thank you! ✨

To celebrate Erris at Night reaching 2k followers, (on such an amazing night for celestial action too 😍) we're giving away 2 cool stargazing books, perfect for these clear, unpolluted Mayo skies we are so lucky to live under!

How to enter:

✅️ Follow Erris at Night

✅️ Give the 👍 and do the ♻️

✅️ Answer this in the comments: What's your favourite "thing" in the sky, and why? It could be the Moon, Aurora, the Plough, Lego, Pleiades, ISS, David Bowie, space junk, the rogue Tesla, the footprints on the Moon, NASA weather balloons, all kinds of UFOs, the pizza that Pizza Hut sent to the ISS in 2011, literally anything! Make us laugh!

We'll pick 2 winners at random. Open to anyone with an address to send a book to. No address? No problem. We'll arrange a pick-up in the Erris region 😉💭📕

Thank you again for all the support, from the first blurry phone shots posted years ago, to the many walks, talks and outings we've organised, the incredible photos you've shared with us, and all the messages we get when the sky turns a bit green for a few minutes, YOU are what makes Erris at Night so much fun and so worthwhile!

So get your tinfoil thinking hats on and answer our Q. What IS your favourite thing of all the things up there?! Enter as many times as you like, under this post only. Winners will be chosen at random on 15th November.

Good luck, may the force be with you, and the odds ever in your favour! 🖖

31/10/2026

If you didn't catch the Aurora earlier, you might see a full corona around the Moon RIGHT NOW if you're at the right angle! It's a truly beautiful sight. Go go go! 🔜

31/10/2026

Outside right now, a faint Aurora lights up the Northern sky on the Mullet Peninsula 😍

Get out, get snapping and share your photos in the comments please 😊

30/10/2026

We often get messages here on FB about conditions and visibility for stargazing in Mayo and, as we're not online 24/7, we might be delayed in answering sometimes... 😆💭🌌

If you'd like to join the Erris at Night whatsapp group, to get notifications about weather, where we might be stargazing (or not), whats happening in the sky (and why), and to hear about other interesting events in the dark skies world...just follow the link to join!

Feel free to share with anyone not on FB that is interested in keeping our skies dark, admiring our dark skies, learning a bit about our dark skies, and taking part in walks and occasional outings further afield. All events are fun, free and totally immersed in County Mayo weather... whatever that might be 😉💭👣

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30/10/2026

Did you happen to catch that lunar corona tonight?!

Incredible to see a strange rainbow coloured cloud rippling around the moon 🌈 The phenomenon lasted around 20 minutes, we watched from near Blacksod on the Mullet Peninsula, County Mayo. Share your pics please if you caught it, its such a lovely sight. MORE proof that even on a very very cloudy night like tonight the sky is always up to something 👀

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