Lets go back in time... do u remember your very first post?

Jen · #1 22-02-2012, 10:37 PM

Well after hitting my 6000 post Suzy reminded me of my very first post So i googled it and found it

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=28992

Wow i have learnt so much from that first post
Since then i have learnt that collimation is a must know how
I do have my 12inch dob with lovely eyepieces
And a lovely canon 500d camera and webcam
Eric showed me that there was more emoticons to be found in the forums Then i found the purple text
I met one other Swan Hillian with a 20inch SDM
And Eric also talked me into going to Snake Valley Astro camp best thing i have ever done (now going for the 5th time i think)

And i now have some amazing astro friends that i can dribble my passion with people that speak the same astro language as me that i will treasure for ever from this site

What was your very first post and how much have you achieved since then?

Forgey (Paula) · #2 22-02-2012, 11:00 PM

I really enjoyed reading your first post Jen, i had a few giggles

My first post is no way near as entertaining.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...56&postcount=1

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #3 22-02-2012, 11:34 PM

Found it. Had to go back 7 years to 17/2/2005
I started posting in a thread entitled "Binocular Bollocks".

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=866
You'll have to scroll down to posts 15 and 16.

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #4 23-02-2012, 12:00 AM

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Originally Posted by jjjnettie

I can't find my first post.

Here it is JJ

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...7&postcount=15

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #5 23-02-2012, 12:04 AM

Here's mine: http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...08&postcount=1

Terry B · #6 23-02-2012, 09:27 AM

Very interesting. So how do you find your first post? I tried going to the last page of my list of posts (page 500) but it wasn't my first post.

lacad01 (Adam) · #7 23-02-2012, 10:14 AM

What an interesting trip down memory lane

Here's my first post

Suzy · #8 23-02-2012, 02:30 PM

Just reading Nettie's post AND WHAT THA!!

Two things I never thought I'd read together- Nettie and proud owner of department store telescope.

Was it really that good?
What was the outcome?
Do you still have it?
Please I beg you continue the story...

Was Janoskiss serious or pulling your leg over that purchase?

In my first post I clearly remember something about frog poo on the mirror from Nettie and that stuck in my brain for some reason. I thought wow that actually happens, so gross!

I was rather shy when I first started, I was too shy to publicly give feedback on everyone's comments or didn't know if that was the right thing in fact

so I messaged everyone that commented

.
Weird- I'd been reading the forums for a few month before I joined but I froze at that time and didn't know what to do.
It was my first ever forum ever - a forum virgin if you like.

Here's mine http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...primary+mirror

Okay... so what have I learned since joining?
I've learned that my family now thinks that I'm a real smart A**S and for the last 6 months I've been banned from talking Astro when we leave our house and I have to limit myself at home as to how much I can talk about it. Even tho hubby himself is into astronomy and science

. It's a mad world I tell ya.

Liz · #9 23-02-2012, 06:00 PM

they have been soooo funny to read!! All little innocents, thats for sure, with department store scopes, as Suzy said, and h u s b a n d ...... jjj, eek.

Jen - and Paul (Zuts) foresaw Johnny ... .spooky!!

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #10 23-02-2012, 06:55 PM

I still have the tube of the ebay scope.
For all it's faults, it ended up being a wee ripper. I modded that thing to within an inch of it's life. LOLOL
But I wouldn't recommend one for a beginner with only a casual interest in the hobby. I was already flipped out over all things astro so was determined to make it work.
Living under dark skies certainly helped too.

Suzy · #11 23-02-2012, 07:09 PM

Aaaaah now that makes sense.

Thanks Nettie.

Ahemmmm .... Liz, still waiting on your first post which you just happened to forget to include.

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All little innocents, thats for sure,

Liz · #12 23-02-2012, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Suzy

Aaaaah now that makes sense.

Thanks Nettie.

Ahemmmm .... Liz, still waiting on your first post which you just happened to forget to include.

did a search and found one boring entry, not sure if the start, which wasnt a hello ... how rude!! Having telescope problems from the start.

?? this one http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...&pp=25&page=13

Barrykgerdes · #13 23-02-2012, 07:24 PM

I don't remember my first post without looking it up but I remeber a lot of more interesting things like my first kiss other than the ones from maiden aunts that I tried to avoid. It happened at school in Kindergarten. I was six at the time. Three girls coaxed me to play with them at lunch time. Two of them each tried to out do the other with me on the receiving end. I even remember their names but I won't disclose and I did not complain either. The year was 1940

Barry

Kal (Andrew) · #14 23-02-2012, 08:48 PM

My first post was a doozie to say the least

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=14731

Since then I've learned alot and I'm pretty sure I'd be able to identify a mercury transit now!

supernova1965 (Warren) · #15 23-02-2012, 09:05 PM

This is my first post I think I can't find any earlier ones.

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Juno?
I was using Stellarium when I saw Juno (it looks like a moon) and I was wondering what exactly it is and where it is situated in our solar system if indeed it is in the solar system.http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/....estionicon.gif Sorry I just saw the post 2 down about Juno I will have to read closer before posting.

Thanks in advance

Jen · #16 23-02-2012, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Forgey

I really enjoyed reading your first post Jen, i had a few giggles

My first post is no way near as entertaining.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...56&postcount=1

lol Paula what scope did you end up getting

Jen · #17 23-02-2012, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Found it. Had to go back 7 years to 17/2/2005
I started posting in a thread entitled "Binocular Bollocks".

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=866
You'll have to scroll down to posts 15 and 16.

awww JJJ how cute were you with your little scope even then you were giving people advice where to go to see things with binos look at you now wow you have pics on the front cover of magazines

Jen · #18 23-02-2012, 09:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

Here's mine: http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...08&postcount=1

lol Ken im still waiting for this shop to open

Jen · #19 23-02-2012, 10:34 PM

these are a great read so innocent indeed bring on some more LOL

Terry go up the top and click the search button and you can type key words, dates to threads etc...... or like i did googled it

Adam did you end up finding your nice dark site

Suzy lol well i must say you are not shy around these forums any more you have plenty to say so the pretty pink shower cap with the poka-dots still a hit or do have one of those boring ones that you can steal from the motel rooms hahahaha

Liz your link didnt work

Lol @ Baz and his first kiss nawwwwwww how do you remember that

LMAO at Kal's first post yep that was a doozie nice sun spots though hahahaha

keep em coming

lacad01 (Adam) · #20 23-02-2012, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Jen

Adam did you end up finding your nice dark site

Jen, yeah but but very,very few and far between. It's either been Bowen Mountain or Katoomba airfield. Hopefully can get up to Katoomba this weekend