Limerick Ketch Ilen’s Longest Night at Sea to Seek Jupiter & Saturn
21st December 2020
Putting on the cloth on the shortest day of the year – Ilen’s headsails being hanked on at Poolbeg Y&BC in Dublln this afternoon
Credit: Gary MacMahon
The great Captain Cook may have voyaged to the Pacific in 1769 for the astronomical purpose of observing the Transit of Venus from Tahiti. But tonight (Monday) the crew of the Limerick ketch Ilen have a more modest hope - the clearance of southeast Ireland’s Solstice sky to provide a memorable sighting of the keenly-anticipated conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.