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27-02-2021, 10:09 AM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Monto
Posts: 16,738
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Long time, no posting
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?
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27-02-2021, 10:14 AM
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Strictly Visual......
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Join Date: Jun 2019
Location: Canberra
Posts: 582
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Welcome back Jeanette, good to see you back ! Cheers, Matt (exKunama)
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27-02-2021, 11:57 AM
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Like to learn
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: melbourne
Posts: 4,835
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27-02-2021, 12:17 PM
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Senior Citizen
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Bribie Island
Posts: 5,059
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Welcome again .....
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27-02-2021, 12:55 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 606
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Welcome back! Which small country town will have the honour (if you don't mind me asking)?
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27-02-2021, 01:25 PM
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bewise betold neverbecold
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Terrigal NSW
Posts: 3,800
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27-02-2021, 01:58 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Monto
Posts: 16,738
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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.
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27-02-2021, 02:02 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Monto
Posts: 16,738
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I see I'm still in the top 10 list of chatter boxes on the forum. LOLOLOL.
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27-02-2021, 02:34 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Warrnambool
Posts: 12,451
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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
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27-02-2021, 04:42 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Western Australia
Posts: 7,866
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27-02-2021, 05:22 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Perth WA
Posts: 2,297
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Hi Jeanette,
Great to see you back. A very warm welcome and long may it last
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27-02-2021, 06:08 PM
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ze frogginator
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Sydney
Posts: 22,062
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You're back! I'm hearing that tune in the background. What could possibly go wrong...
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27-02-2021, 06:32 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Lake Macquarie
Posts: 7,051
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Jeanette, trees can be removed, assuming it is on your property. Welcome back.
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27-02-2021, 06:50 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Sydney and South Coast NSW
Posts: 6,051
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Welcome back !
Great to see folk come back after quite a while away
Cheers
Martin
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27-02-2021, 09:56 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 2,973
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Welcome back
Best
JA
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27-02-2021, 10:32 PM
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Highest Observatory in Oz
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Canberra
Posts: 17,176
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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
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28-02-2021, 10:07 AM
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Farting Nebulae
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Tamleugh, Victoria, Australia
Posts: 1,384
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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!
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01-03-2021, 08:33 AM
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Member > 10year club
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Central Coast NSW
Posts: 3,336
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welcome back! We missed you!
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01-03-2021, 09:33 AM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Monto
Posts: 16,738
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That tree though, she's enormous. Enough timber in her to build an obs. LOL
Thanks for the warm welcome back.
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01-03-2021, 10:25 AM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Sydney
Posts: 5,138
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Quote:
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!
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Hey....I've been called worse! not my fault I was born a cactus....oh yeah hey JJJ girl.....welcome back to the swamp
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