Lights over Dublin?

morlan · 02-08-2004 10:58PM #1

No, not of the UFO kind. Why are there search lights mounted all the way up the liffey?

bizmark · 02-08-2004 11:07PM

We have a lot of money and the goverment is intent on wasting it all

(I.E i have no idea)

Where did you get that web cam shot from ?

morlan · 02-08-2004 11:13PM

bizmark wrote:

We have a lot of money and the goverment is intent on wasting it all (I.E i have no idea)

Where did you get that web cam shot from ?

You've never been to http://www.dublincity.ie/traffic/frame_c.htm
Does Dublin have any festivals in the summer? is there some sort of event on?

bizmark · 02-08-2004 11:14PM

Nope never seen that thanks for the link and i really dont know some of the dubers will tell you

flogen · 02-08-2004 11:18PM

it wouldnt be a re-hash of that 'evectorial lighting' (or whatever it was called) thing, would it?

Maybe its something to do with the luas... seems to follow the track...:S

flogen

morlan · 03-08-2004 10:45PM

bump

Useless Dubs, don't you know anything?

Flukey · 03-08-2004 11:15PM

We know plenty. I have on occasion seen spotlights in the sky here, coming from the city centre, when no event that I know of was on. So it does happen every so often. It was the Bank holiday weekend and there were reports elsewhere in the boards of people seeing something on Friday night, so there was obviously something going on. That shot you have looks like they are coming from the end of Temple Bar, which would be the type of place that could do something like this.

keu · 03-08-2004 11:38PM

maybe they were looking for batman.

Puck · 03-08-2004 11:49PM

This perhaps? -> http://www.dublinelevation.net/

keu · 03-08-2004 11:55PM

Vectorial Elevation DUBLIN, 22/4 - 3/5, 2004
unless they forgot to take down the lights

Flukey · 03-08-2004 11:57PM

That was just for the week around the EU Accession. That was only temporary and is all gone now. These are some photos I took in O'Connell Street when that was happening. The first gets them reflecting off the Spire. The last shows the moon and Jupiter - bottom centre- in the photo too.

tba · 03-08-2004 11:57PM

Puck wrote:

This perhaps? -> http://www.dublinelevation.net/

those lights were on OC street, the ones in the photo appear to be around the temple bar area

_blank_ · 04-08-2004 12:03AM

I'm in coolock at the moment, and if I look out toward the Clontarf area I can see a really bright flashing light, nothing like a search light, and not as high as the spire.

Only tonight mind, not yesterday, not the day before.

ixoy · 04-08-2004 12:10AM

seansouth wrote:

I'm in coolock at the moment, and if I look out toward the Clontarf area I can see a really bright flashing light, nothing like a search light, and not as high as the spire.QUOTE]
I can see it too - anyone have a clue what it is? A beacon to the gods?

Flukey · 04-08-2004 12:17AM

You'll always see something in the sky if you look, on any night. On a clear night it could be anything like a plane, a satellite, a star, a planet, a meteor, a comet. There is always a simple explanation for anything you will see. I'm into astronomy, so I recognise a lot of things that people identify incorrectly or don't know what they are and are confused by. There are lots of strange things to the uneducated eye, but I am sure you will all recognise this object in the night sky that I photographed:

keu · 04-08-2004 12:18AM

fcould ber someesorte of subliminal mmessaging device, or one of thoses psychotronic amplifiersn which pump frequencies generating theta waves in order to hyspnotise dubliners.

Flukey · 04-08-2004 12:21AM

Well it didn't work on me, or anyone else I know here.

JackKelly · 04-08-2004 12:24AM

yeah,im pretty sure that that flashing light is the spire. Its soo bright though. Im confused. Anyone else seeing it?

On another note, why isnt the vodafone website working.JUST when i need to send a mesage it goes down.

ssh · 04-08-2004 12:30AM

Was just out for a walk and I noticed it too. It's a spinny light of some description, like a lighthouse or something.

ixoy · 04-08-2004 12:32AM

TimAy wrote:

yeah,im pretty sure that that flashing light is the spire. Its soo bright though. Im confused. Anyone else seeing it?.

You're pretty wrong - it's definetely not the Spire as I'm in the IFSC and the Spire is to my right and the flashing light is to my left. The flashing light is also low on the horizon, as if on the top of a building - it's certainly unlikely to be some astronomical feature...

Guy:Incognito · 04-08-2004 12:32AM

Is there still a web cam broadcasting off the building that redz is in now? overlooking O'Connell bridge. I remember looking at it online a couple of years back. It was in When Brendan Met Trudy aswell.

JackKelly · 04-08-2004 12:48AM

not the spire than.but it is some sort of mast. I can see it from my window and it has a top light that is flashing, and than an other light below it in the middle. Not the RTE mast as that can be seen beside it.strange

Cabaal · 04-08-2004 01:01AM

hehe maybe its the new Millenium clock in the sky

gota find a way of wasting money on stupid ideas after all

Cabaal · 04-08-2004 01:07AM

Stekelly wrote:

Is there still a web cam broadcasting off the building that redz is in now? overlooking O'Connell bridge. I remember looking at it online a couple of years back. It was in When Brendan Met Trudy aswell.

hehe for some reason I've always thought that was the Irish Times webcam as thats the first webcam I can remember was in dublin and it the same position,

Infact I remember a few lads in college about 3-4 years back were doing a race around Ireland to get a picture of themselfs in every county in Ireland in 3 days.

I was working in a net cafe at the time and they asked me to take a screenshot of the Irish Times webcam site as one of the lads was dressed up as a gorilla suite holding up a sign sitting under the green sign-post on the webcam side of the liffey

Sadly they have since moved there web-cam to a different position as you can no longer see the footpath on the side of the river the webcam is on
http://www.ireland.com/weather/cam.htm

steviec · 04-08-2004 01:18AM

It's the pigeon house.
Not sure why it has a big flashing light at the top though....

Flukey · 04-08-2004 01:20AM

I can't see it from where I am, but I know it was foggy tonight, so it could be some sort of warning beacon down near the docks. The Spire doesn't flash anyway. There could be some sort of high crane or something down there. They need a light. It is too cloudy to be an astronomical feature and there is nothing scheduled as far as I know, even if it wasn't. It's not the Pigeon House is it? Surely you'd know if it was that. It is just something tall with a light on it, as required by law of course. Look in that direction tomorrow and see can you see what is there. Get a pair of binoculars now or then if you can. Work out exactly where it is now, so you'll know where to look in the morning. Whatever it is, there is a simple explanation.

steviec · 04-08-2004 01:23AM

It's definitely the pigeon house, clearly visible from Clontarf. One chimney has normal red lights and the other has two ultra-bright flashing white lights for some reason

Flukey · 04-08-2004 01:25AM

We posted not far off each other Steviec. So it was the Pigeon House. I thought that might have been too obvious. All tall objects have to have a light at the top, by law, to warn aircraft. Even before the lights went on in the Spire it had to have a red beacon at the top, remember? It would be particularly noticeable on a foggy night as tonight and important. Maybe that is why they have extra lights on tonight.

JackKelly · 04-08-2004 01:54AM

its seems more for "shoe " than for safety

monkeyfudge · 04-08-2004 02:47AM

I'm in Coolock and can see the 2 chimneys from my window.

I'd assumed the proper lights had broken and the flashing one was an emergancy back up.

But it could be a part of something. There is a pool of light that is visable running along the Lifey from it.

Sheesh, it obviously cost alot to produce this, yet they do a really poor job of publicising it... what's the point? And to do it on a Tuesday?

The only event I can think of that was on was the Latin American festival.. but that was rubbish....

Oh, and it has gotten very foggy now.. so it's hard to see the chimneys at this stage.

segadreamcast · 04-08-2004 02:55AM

Not the old lights. These are along the quays - those lights originated from rooftops along O'Connell street IIRC.

Not the Spire.

What is it?

Lights over Dublin?

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