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17-01-2006, 02:57 PM
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The 'DRAGON MAN'
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: In the Dark at Snake Valley, Victoria
Posts: 14,412
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Welcome Ziggy Stardust!!!
Hey, Welcome Ziggy Stardust! Where's the Spiders From Mars? 
Hope you enjoy your stay with us. This is not like other forum sites, this one is a real community and we try to meet up in person as much as possible.
What gear do you currently have?
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17-01-2006, 03:03 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Wentworth Falls NSW
Posts: 1,112
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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons
Hey, Welcome Ziggy Stardust! Where's the Spiders From Mars?
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Beat me to it
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17-01-2006, 03:07 PM
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The 'DRAGON MAN'
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: In the Dark at Snake Valley, Victoria
Posts: 14,412
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Hehehe! We are showing our age Chris!
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17-01-2006, 03:22 PM
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lots of eyes on you!
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Launceston Tasmania
Posts: 7,381
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spiders from mars??? you old farts!!!
hi tony, welcome and yes i have RSA connections, my father is from there.
A lovely part of the world, i went there in '82 when i was 12 and still have vivid memories of the drakensburg mountains!!
I wish i knew some dirty words in afrikaans so i could slip em in hear without incurring the wroth of the bosses up stairs.
Coming to tassie, look us up!!
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17-01-2006, 03:28 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Wentworth Falls NSW
Posts: 1,112
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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons
Hehehe! We are showing our age Chris!
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Classic line from the thin white duke
Ziggy really sang, Screwed up eyes and screwed down hair-do like some cat from Japan"
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17-01-2006, 03:30 PM
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Astro-holic
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Swan Valley, Perth, WA
Posts: 112
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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons
Hey, Welcome Ziggy Stardust! Where's the Spiders From Mars?
Hope you enjoy your stay with us. This is not like other forum sites, this one is a real community and we try to meet up in person as much as possible.
What gear do you currently have? |
hey guys thanks for the welcome...
as for the Spiders... hell if you seen them here in WA, you'd know leaving your scope out too cool at night, can get interesting.... one night was focusing and looking down and whhhoioopppsss a nice big one crawled over the main lens 
as for the toys.... ok, so what toys do I have...
1x Meade LX 200GPS 12 inch meade, plus loads of extras
1x Helois 150mm ( 6 inch) F12 refractor ( chinese made, but a great scope)
1x Borge Apo 90mm refractor ( also used as a guide scope on Meade 12inch)
1x wide angle bino's.... most used tool!!!
1x nikon 4500 camera dedicated to astro work...
and more len's and toys than I can admit to my wife....
I posted a little "hoe do you do !!!" here by mistake.. http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...2446#post82446
but I'll find my way around....
Tony
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/6766/meandscope9au.jpg
ps edited... but i thought size counts in Astronomy!!!lol 
Last edited by Ziggy Stardust; 17-01-2006 at 03:45 PM.
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17-01-2006, 03:31 PM
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~Dust bunny breeder~
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: The town of campbells
Posts: 12,359
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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons
Hey, Welcome Ziggy Stardust! Where's the Spiders From Mars? |
what? the glass spider? 
g'day ziggy and welcome to the nut house.... i am a almond.
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17-01-2006, 03:38 PM
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Astro-holic
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Swan Valley, Perth, WA
Posts: 112
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Thanks guys...and gals..
greta to know there are lots of abnormals like me,,,  out there that get cold and see nothing, exclaim at a fuzz ball and cry to the wife for more hot coffeeee pleazeeee...
Tony
ps i'm in the orange shirt with some of the crazy bunch I left in Africa...behind is a LX200GPS we played with at 1900m above sea level and in total dark skies!!!! night temp...-15deg!!! but you could count 11 stars in Crux with the nakid eye and read a book by starlight alone ( it was a new moon too!!!)
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/715...wholetroop.jpg
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17-01-2006, 03:41 PM
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The 'DRAGON MAN'
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: In the Dark at Snake Valley, Victoria
Posts: 14,412
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Whoah!!!! That's a big Pic!!!!!!!!!
Go into 'Edit' and reduce the size, quick my pooter is about to explode! LOL!
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17-01-2006, 04:34 PM
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lots of eyes on you!
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Launceston Tasmania
Posts: 7,381
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you will fit in beautifully mate!!
anything to blow things of ken's (ballarat dragons) up is welcome in this forum!!!
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17-01-2006, 06:21 PM
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Astro-holic
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Swan Valley, Perth, WA
Posts: 112
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Originally Posted by davidpretorius
you will fit in beautifully mate!!
anything to blow things of ken's (ballarat dragons) up is welcome in this forum!!!
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I'll try too keep my Bazzzokaaas pointed upwards only... Sorry Ken  
Tony
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17-01-2006, 06:39 PM
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Retired, damn no pension
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Obi Obi, Qld
Posts: 18,778
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 Ziggy and
Could you remove the Imageshack links in your images. Thanks
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17-01-2006, 06:43 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Monto
Posts: 16,741
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Hi Ziggy,
Are you a fan of The Thin White Duke?
Welcome to the group. It seems like you've fitted in well already.
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17-01-2006, 06:50 PM
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Astro-holic
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Swan Valley, Perth, WA
Posts: 112
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Originally Posted by jjjnettie
Hi Ziggy,
Are you a fan of The Thin White Duke?
Welcome to the group. It seems like you've fitted in well already.
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Jjjnettie, I have been a Duke fan since I first heard him in the seventy's.
my fav track is "Life on Mars" and "Five Years"... and saw him live in Perth last year... 
as for fitting in.... it's more like being back in an old favourite glove... good fit, warm and you know where all the feeling is...
thanks for the Big Welcome to all..
now who wants to come play with the 12 inch LX200 around Perth, cause it too much of a back-breaker to log in and out alone most nights ????
Tony
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17-01-2006, 07:02 PM
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Planet photographer
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Bundaberg
Posts: 8,819
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Hey welcome to the nut house mate! As Davo say's, your gunna fit right in here! 
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17-01-2006, 07:56 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Launceston Tasmania
Posts: 9,021
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 Ziggy, you certainly came in with a bang. Welcome to IIS.
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17-01-2006, 11:17 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Monto
Posts: 16,741
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Ziggy,
I'm definately what you would call a fan.
I love his work as an actor as well. " Merry Christmas Mr Laurence" " Labyrinth" and "The Man Who Fell to Earth" being my favorites. My fav. song at the moment is Sound and Vision. I've seen him twice in concert, and like you got blown away by him in the 70's.
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18-01-2006, 12:47 AM
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A very 'Senior' member.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: South Coast N.S.W.
Posts: 2,571
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Hi ziggy, Great array of gear there.  L.
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18-01-2006, 02:43 PM
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Astro-holic
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Swan Valley, Perth, WA
Posts: 112
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Originally Posted by acropolite
Ziggy, you certainly came in with a bang. Welcome to IIS. |
bugger and there I thought no one would notice if I slipped in like a quiet Supernova... 
but thanks too all for the great Welcome...
and eyes up, lights down...OhhhhOOO Wowwwwww
Tony
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18-01-2006, 03:33 PM
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on the highway to Hell
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Adelaide
Posts: 2,623
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Welcome Ziggy - you definately are made of ' The Right Stuff' - as in the movie
i saw the bowie tour last year too - it was simply blinkin AWESOME - go all the old 60 year old dudes! he smoked 2 packs of ciggies a day for most of his life until recently - doubly awesome!!! what an inspiration
how was the lady on bass doing the vocals on a lot of songs  Gail Ann Dorsey - including freddie mercury's part in 'under pressure' amongst others - spine tingling stuff
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