The "Oktoberfest" Snake Valley Astro Camp Oct 28th to Oct 31st 2016

[Atmos (Colin)]

I'm going to have to pack when I get home from work, gotta pack it first after a night out imaging

[rcheshire (Rowland)]

I'm not going to mention weather, but the forecast temperature is ~4C tonight, minus wind chill. Dewpoint is forecast ~7C. It will be a little warmer Saturday night.

[Jen]

Musics always blaring Paul hehe 😎😎😎😜😜😜😈😈😈 see you soon 💕

Originally Posted by byronpaul

Jen,

no passenger on this trip to Snake Valley. Keep that radio blaring on your way down from Swan Hill

Dave - I'll 2nd the all nighter !!!!!

See you all there

Paul

[Jen]

One second sub on the flame nebula 😈😈😜😜

[Atmos (Colin)]

I don't see the Horsehead nebula anywhere near the frame

[glend (Glen)]

Jen how about an actual report on what's going on down there that the rest of use are missing sitting under our cloud elsewhere?
We need some vicarious enjoyment of the event.

[Atmos (Colin)]

Friday night was good with not so good seeing (~3.6"), last night was cloudy although we did spot SOME stars on and off.

[acropolite (Phil)]

Happy snaps or it didn't happen.....

[Jen]

To all u silly buggers that went home today I just wanna say thank you very much for taking the crap weather with you the skies are amazing (I'm not tricking this time hehehe) fifty minutes already down on NGC1365 woohoo

[Jen]

Pretty rainbow this afternoon 💜💜

[Atmos (Colin)]

Congrats Jen!!

[Greenswale (Wren)]

Ripper pic, Jen!

[astro_nutt]

Another big thank you to everyone for a great time. We will be back for sure. Regards Norm and Mel

[pfitzgerald (Paul)]

Lovely shot Jen - and good luck with the processing of your galaxy hunt.

Mel - thanks for the lovely scones on Saturday. Loved Norm's RA/Dec/Azm/Alt mechanical converter.

John - thanks for the help with PHD.

And to Malcolm, Paul and the committee thank you for organising another great camp. As Jen would say. 'Is it March yet?!'

Paul

[Atmos (Colin)]

As red as some of my lily white skin got on Saturday during the day, it's almost all brown now

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

Hi all!
Just arrived home and would like to just pop a quick update. Firstly a big thank you to all the attendees who pitched in and got things done in the absence of myself on Friday and Saturday and Paul on Saturday and throughout the entire camp.

I was glad we had some SV Newbies attend. I only got to meet Norm and Melissa, but Colin (Atmos) was there and good to hear Alistair made it up. Also Stefans friend Denis and his dad.
To back up what Paul said, thank you very much for the scones Mel!!

Next a weather report. I was only in attendance Sunday and Monday night, so I am relying on hearsay for the other 2.

Friday as mentioned was clear with some dodgy seeing.
Saturday, clouded out.
Sunday has some drifting clouds but has a reasonable patch of about 2 hours from about 9-30pm. Very cold, a cold shower of rain at about 12-30am sent everyone scurrying for their banks but it did clear up. I got up at 4-30am (I think it was) and the sky was very nice.
Monday (Surprise) turned into a cracker!! After band of shower passing through all day, it cleared up after sundown with very good transparency and very good seeing and some patches of simply superb seeing. Unfortunately only 5 brave souls stayed on (Jen, Rex, Rowland, Paul and myself) so we had better produce some images to prove how nice it was! Lasted from 10pm to about 4-30am when a freakishly quick cloud out hit us.

The field was luckily not as wet as I had feared and I found it perfectly fine for imaging, certainly in the upper part. It dried out despite the occasional showers over the weekend and this morning areas that were quite soft on Friday were noticeably firmer.

Obviously there was some work going on during the weekend and I will update attendees and members by email on what is happening with that.

Anyway, that is all I can get out of my sleep deprived brain for now so thanks again!!

Malcolm

[Atmos (Colin)]

Thanks for organising the event Malcolm. T'was my first and although I couldn't stick it out, was great to meet a whole bunch of astro minded people!

[Jen]

Hi guys I think I have finally recovered from another awesome camp to post my report Once again I had the best time ever even though the numbers were down this time it was still very cool and I just love being around my happy little astro family all you guys rock and I am forever learning more and more at every camp there is always someone happy to help and share the knowledge. It was awesome to bring Rex with me this time as I got to boss him around oh I mean he helped me set up before dark this time hehehe thanks Rex I hope I haven't scared you off into coming next year Your horsey image came out awesome by the way you have a great teacher I think LOL
It was great to see Al pop up on the Friday night he helped me sort out my cabling issues lol arrrrrhhh I hate cables LOL Al xo
I had lots of giggles and I actually broke my record with the most I've ever slept at SV according to my fitbit I got a whole 15hours all up this time round hahahahaha (it was a long slow trip home)
A big thank you to Malcom and the rest of the crew for making this camp happen muahhhh love you long time
A big thanks to Norm & Mel for the scones so yummy and for the clean up after Saturday night dinner
Thank you John for the lend of Annas freezer suit OMG im getting one of those before next camp I missed it so much on the Monday night hahahha
Thanks Steve for your yummy spit roast yummo and for making me addicted to the thinkgeek website hahahha I soooo love your evil ways keep it up buddy LOL (high five)
Thanks John Glossop for the lollies and showing me how to use the polar scope camera thingy and making me spend more money AGAIN lol we have them on order already hahahaha we didn't do any processing lessons this time damn it but it was great to see you much more relaxed this time round xxoo
As usual the last night was the best night the skies were awesome hahaha so a big big thank you to all of you that went home early LOL
Thank you all for just being you
Great atmosphere, great people and the music is awesome too hahahaha
Bring on the next camp IS IT MARCH YET
Here is a few pics I managed to capture over the weekend

[Wombat_In_Space (Darren)]

Great images there Jen, wish I could have made to the camp.

[leon]

Very nice indeed Jen, I must come again one day

Leon