‘Reach for the stars’: Organisers of astrophotography competition want public to capture the magic of the heavens
Categories include open one for pictures of the night sky taken with nothing but a smartphone
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Winning entries will be published in The Irish Times and on the website of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS)
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