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Old 23-10-2007, 11:07 AM
berg meister
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Sydney
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Introducing myself

Hello,

I am to be known here as berg meister. Always been into Astronomy but yet to really get decent gear. I have a 3" refractor and some binoculars and seeing as I currently live in Sydney, my astronomical moments are not as often as I like. Will move back to Canberra to vastly improve this in a year or so.

My moments of astronomy so far are:

Observing the first shuttle flight in 1981 (?) though it was more like a moving star
Observing Haley's comet in 1986 from Gosford NSW
Observing the Shoemaker Levy impact of Jupiter
Observing Saturn's ring with my own telescope in Christchurch 1997
Observing brief Aurora Australis briefly in Christchurch 1999 - I have a newspaper article on this....somwhere too.
Observing the Jewel Box cluster at the Towsend Observatory in the Christchurch Arts Centre - a 100 year old telescope:

http://www.artscentre.co.nz/whats-on...bservatory.asp

Watching a meteor explode over Lake George in 2005
Living within sight (for a while) of the Long Baseline Array east of Canberra.....could be in need of correction of the type there.
Observing McNaught


Maybe some others not quite to mind at present. Looking forward to the next shuttle launch too.

Glad to be a part of the community and look forward to some interesting stuff.

berg meister
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