30 May 2009: Site launched. 2 June 2009: Added 2-6-09 image of Noctilucent Cloud; composite image 2006 Total Solar Eclipse. 6 June 2009: Added page for Annular and Partial Solar Eclipses. 8 June 2009: Added image of Comet Hyakutake (in 1996); three film images of the October 2003 aurora. 9 June 2009: Added moon page. 14 June 2009: Added artificial satellite page. 26 June 2009: Added image of Comet LONEOS C/2007 F1 (in 2007); image of lunar crater Clavius. 28 July 2009: Added image and notes of the 2009 Total Solar Eclipse. 8 Oct 2009: Added image of Prominences on sun on 8 Oct 2009. 19 Dec 2009: Added image of Sunspots on sun on 19 Dec 2009. 21 Dec 2009: Added image of Neptune in the telescopic same field as Jupiter on 21 Dec 2009. 23 Dec 2009: Added image the blank Sun on 23 Dec 2009. 29 Dec 2009: Added image of the Crescent Moon taken on 21 Dec 2009. 31 Dec 2009: Added image of Partial Lunar Eclipse on 31 Dec 2009. 9 Jan 2010: Added image of Penumbral phase of the Lunar Eclipse of 31 Dec 2009. 9 Feb 2010: Added image of Sun with a string of spots on 8 Feb 2010. 27 Mar 2010: Added image of Sun with sunspot group (27 Mar 2010). 30 Mar 2010: Added image of Venus and Mercury(27 Mar 2010). 8 Apr 2010: Added image of Venus and Mercury(7 Apr 2010). 16 Apr 2010: Added image of Moon, Venus and Mercury(15 Apr 2010). 14 Jun 2010: Added image of Noctilucent Cloud (taken on previous night). 19 Jul 2010: Now hosted in a new site with a domain name: 'http://www.variablestarnights.net'. The old home page http://homepage.eircom.net/~vsn links to this site. 19 Jul 2010: Added images of the 11 July 2010 Total Solar Eclipse; lunar eclipse of 26 June 2010 and Green Flash 10 July 2010.. 30 Sep 2010: Added image of Comet 103P/Hartley taken on 29 Sep 2010. 8 Oct 2010: Added image of Comet 103P/Hartley taken on 6 Oct 2010. 19 Oct 2010: Added image of Mira taken on 16 Oct 2010. 22 Oct 2010: Added image of Comet 103P/Hartley taken on 20 Oct 2010. 15 Nov 2010: Added image of Sun with sunspot groups (same date). 18 Nov 2010: Added link to IAS's almanac Sky-High; added Skype image of Venus. 12 Dec 2010: Added image of Sun with two sunspots (same date). 21 Dec 2010: Added two images of total lunar eclipse (same date). 3 Jan 2011: Added image of conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus (same date). 18 Jan 2011: Added image of SS Cygni (previous night). 15 Feb 2011: Added image of sun with sunspot group (of 14 Feb 2011). 19 Feb 2011: Added image of sun with sunspot groups (same date). 15 Mar 2011: Added image of conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury (same date). 29 Apr 2011: Armagh Observatory added to 'Observatories visited'. 4 Jun 2011: Added image of SN 2011dh (in M51). 28 Jul 2011: Added solar image (same date). 2 Aug 2011: Added images of Comet 2009/P1 Garradd, Vesta, Neptune and Uranus/Themis (of 31 July 2011). 3 Aug 2011: Added solar image (same date). 31 Aug 2011: Added image of SN 2011fe (in M101). 2 Sep 2011: Added solar image (of 1 Sep 2011). 3 Sep 2011: Added recent images of Comet 2009/P1 Garradd; updated image 7 Dec 2011. 14 Sep 2011: Added image of 1036 Ganymed. 17 Sep 2011: Added image of 192 Nausikaa (same date). 19 Sep 2011: Added images of 30558 Jamesoconnor. 22 Sep 2011: Added images of SN 2011fe in M101 (of 17 Sep 2011) and Comet 2009/P1 Garradd (of 19 Sep 2011). 28 Sep 2011: Added solar image (of 27 Sep 2011). 9 Nov 2011: Added solar images (5&6 Nov 2011); Added image of asteroid 2005 YU55 (same date; updated image 4 Dec 2011). 13 Jan 2012: Added page on building our backyard observatory (updated 17 Apr 2012). 26 Jan 2012: Added image of 433 Eros (of 19 Jan 2012). 10 Feb 2012: Added images of Comet 2009/P1 Garradd/M92 conjunction (of 5 Feb 2012); solar image (of 24 Jan 2012); Venus & Uranus in same telescopic field (of 9 Feb 2012). 24 Feb 2012: Added image of flare from an Iridium satellite (of 20 Feb 2012). 29 Feb 2012: Added image of Jupiter, Venus and the Moon (of 26 Feb 2012). 5 Mar 2012: Added solar image (same date). 6 Mar 2012: Added image of Jupiter, Venus and Mercury (of 4 Mar 2012); solar image (same date). 7 Mar 2012: Added solar image (same date). 9 Mar 2012: Added image of aurora (same date). 15 Mar 2012: Added image of Jupiter and Venus in conjunction (of 13 Mar 2012). 27 Mar 2012: Added image of Jupiter, Venus, M45 and Hyades (of 21 Mar 2012). 3 Apr 2012: Added image of Venus on outskirts of M45 (same date). 7 Apr 2012: Added image of SN 2011aw in M95 (of 6 Apr 2012). 25 Apr 2012: Added solar image (same date). 26 Apr 2012: Added image of the Venus passing the Moon (of 24/25 Apr 2012). Minor changes not recorded.