Long time, no posting

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #1 27-02-2021, 10:09 AM

Woot!
I'm going back to living in a small country town under dark skies!!!
My poor scopes have been so neglected (aside from a refurbishment of the electrics of one last year)
Eventually I might put up an observatory. For now I'll just be happy to have paved pads dotted around the yard.
There's an enormous great pine tree directly to the south that I have to work around, so a fixed spot is really out of the question.
I wonder if I'll be the only Astronomer in the village?

Rainmaker (Matt) · #2 27-02-2021, 10:14 AM

Welcome back Jeanette, good to see you back ! Cheers, Matt (exKunama)

DavidU (Dave) · #3 27-02-2021, 11:57 AM

FlashDrive (Poppy) · #4 27-02-2021, 12:17 PM

Welcome again .....

DarkArts · #5 27-02-2021, 12:55 PM

Welcome back! Which small country town will have the honour (if you don't mind me asking)?

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #6 27-02-2021, 01:25 PM

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #7 27-02-2021, 01:58 PM

I've bought a little workers cottage in the township of Monto, Queensland.
Houghy has been helping me a lot, guiding me through the process.
It's a nice little town.
I hope to move in by the end of March.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #8 27-02-2021, 02:02 PM

I see I'm still in the top 10 list of chatter boxes on the forum. LOLOLOL.

leon · #9 27-02-2021, 02:34 PM

Hi Jeanette welcome back, yep your still up there even with being away for so long, nothing like a nice little town in the sticks, anything with a traffic light is to big i reckon.

Leon

TrevorW · #10 27-02-2021, 04:42 PM

PCH (Paul) · #11 27-02-2021, 05:22 PM

Hi Jeanette,

Great to see you back. A very warm welcome and long may it last

multiweb (Marc) · #12 27-02-2021, 06:08 PM

You're back! I'm hearing that tune in the background. What could possibly go wrong...

glend (Glen) · #13 27-02-2021, 06:32 PM

Jeanette, trees can be removed, assuming it is on your property. Welcome back.

Startrek (Martin) · #14 27-02-2021, 06:50 PM

Welcome back !
Great to see folk come back after quite a while away
Cheers
Martin

JA · #15 27-02-2021, 09:56 PM

Welcome back

Best
JA

strongmanmike (Michael) · #16 27-02-2021, 10:32 PM

Great news Jeanette

I saw the place on FB, hope you have fun with putting your touch on it. Looking at the dark sky measurements for Monto, even in the centre of town the skies are Bortle 4 and darker than where my observatory is, 10km out from the edge of Canberra, so some serious observing and imaging should be possible, good luck with it all

Mike

SimmoW (SIMON) · #17 28-02-2021, 10:07 AM

I’ve been pretty absent here too! Life on the farm balancing off my priorities, plus some of the more prickly characters here minimising my desire to interact...

Welcome back, and have fun getting back into it, like I will soon I hope! Bit of a waste, Bortle 1-2 skies and just too busy or tired to stay up late!

Allan_L (Allan) · #18 01-03-2021, 08:33 AM

welcome back! We missed you!

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #19 01-03-2021, 09:33 AM

That tree though, she's enormous. Enough timber in her to build an obs. LOL

Thanks for the warm welcome back.

atalas · #20 01-03-2021, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by SimmoW

I’ve been pretty absent here too! Life on the farm balancing off my priorities, plus some of the more prickly characters here minimising my desire to interact...

Welcome back, and have fun getting back into it, like I will soon I hope! Bit of a waste, Bortle 1-2 skies and just too busy or tired to stay up late!

Hey....I've been called worse! not my fault I was born a cactus....oh yeah hey JJJ girl.....welcome back to the swamp