Since the dawn of time, mankind has been fascinated and driven by the allure of the night sky, but none like Ireland!
There have been thousands of documentaries produced on the science of astronomy and the technology behind it from all over the world, and many of those documentaries give a somewhat false impression of who and what an astronomer is, and what drives them to spend nights on end out in the cold looking up at the night sky.
In a small island country where urban sprawl is rampant and the continuous expansion and growth of artificial light pollution blocks the natural light of the universe above our heads, there are fewer and fewer places the cosmos can be viewed, asking the question, “Is Irish astronomy at risk?”
Die Hard Astro is a documentary film about the people behind the pursuit of astronomy and in particular astrophotography in perhaps one of the most difficult locations in the world for the hobby, Ireland. Who are the people that do astronomy in Ireland, why do they do it and the risk they will lose their beloved natural science hobby?
