how far would you travel just to see something?

[h0ughy]

I ask that question as I contemplate my navel and the event of the mercury transist. how hard nut am I, do I have a problem?? do I just give up and watch the web cam over the net? What would the wife think, how long to travel for? DANG!! is it too late to rebook that plane:D :lol:

[ving]

gee... not far i guess.a few hours drive at the most.

[TidaLpHasE]

:DGo for it Houghy, it all comes down to what makes you happy, nothing else matters as long as you can justify something to yourself.:P

[ving]

you could wait another 30 years to see if the weather is ok for the next one houghy ;)

[h0ughy]

Mate I could justify flying to melbourne if it was clear;) but the wife will kill me:scared:

I suppose more than 4 hours driving in one way is a bit much, but looking to be clear short of that I hope, that gets me home around the same time the wife gets home:whistle:

[TidaLpHasE]

:D Plenty of places to hide out here in Melb lol.

Have a look at the sat pics, doesn't look too bad at all for your area.http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDE00902.loop.shtml

[Ric]

Hi Houghy,
I could justify a few days travel by car for a once in 20 years event and I could even justify a weeks travel by car to the other side of the country for a once in a lifetime event. My wife wouldn't mind just so long as I brought her back some presents :D or we made a holiday out of it and went together.

I have to go by car as I am not a plane person. :scared:


cheers

[h0ughy]

well whats the grey stuff over my head?????:shrug:

[Dennis]

Longest I have driven so far was approx. 80km for the Venus transit of June 2004. That was mainly a dry run for the 2012 event.

Cheers

Dennis

[TidaLpHasE]

Um, blue rinse:eyepop:

[asimov]

I'm travelling to the US to view the Northern Hemisphere objects...hows that grab ya!? lol.

[h0ughy]

:P

but you have to have a passport for that;) no I probably mean on the same day you can have off:whistle:

[asimov]

In that case, I was actually thinking of driving north to better seeing soon...about 300km's but I'd need more than one day to do this.

[xstream]

You could fly down here to Albury.

I'm with Trevor on it Dave, it's what ever makes you happy.

[[1ponders]]

I went to NZ to see Robby and gbeal. :lol: Mind you I came home with a GM8 :lol:

[fringe_dweller]

every time i view the night sky and its attractions thru my scopes - I travel a VERY loooong way :P :nerd:

[spacezebra]

China 2009 solar eclipse.

Cheers Petra

[wavelandscott]

Hard question...right up there with my other hard questions...

How deep is a hole?
How long is a piece of rope?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Seriously I reckon it is worth a bit of effort for something that you enjoy and get satisfaction from...4 hours or so is not really that much in the big scheme of things...

Heck, in spite of likley poor weather I'm still going to get the boys up early and drag them down to the Sydney Observatory...even if we can't see the transit there will at least be coffee and donuts (or muffins)...:thumbsup:

and an interesting story for them to tell about what a nut their good' ol Dad is!

[monoxide]

you'd spend longer wishing you did go :)

[RB]

Mate I make the effort to travel all the way to Kulnura every new moon, no matter what !!!

Howzat?

:lol:

[Octane]

All,

Canberra to Coonabarabran.

Well, it was unintentional, but, we experienced the Orionids at their peak. :)

Regards,
Humayun

[h0ughy]

yes friendship...........but i want clear skies too

[seeker372011]

i travelled to lithgow for the venus transit
probably will do something equally silly tomorrow ;)

[glenc]

I went to Hawaii in 1991 for an eclipse, it was cloudy. :(

Went to Turkey for the eclipse this year and it was clear. :)

[mickoking]

See ya there :thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

OK I only went 13km LOL

[rowena]

36hr of flights one way....., Rockhampton to brisbane to sydney to los angelos to atlanta to Orlando, plus 1 hr car drive just to watch the Space shuttle! Thats one way, with 4 sunset/sunrises in that 36hr period! Way back was quicker but more flights! lol

And guess what! I will do it all over again!! Maybe next year in June! :)
see what happens! :)

Otherwise sydney to ceduna, south australia (via flights) was the furtherst ive travelled for astronomical!

[astroron]

:hi: I cought a lift in a Semi frrom North Carolina to Florida to see the Space Shuttle take off and it was cancelled 2 hours befor lift off :mad2:

[Gargoyle_Steve]

I'm planning on the eclipse at Easter Island in 2010 ...... a VERY cool place to see an eclipse I reckon, one could almost say "unique", or at least it's a "once in a lifetime" opportunity, with near 5 minutes of totality ..... and it just HAPPENS to occurr on my birthday!

[glenc]

I am planning to go to Easter Is too on 11/7/2010.
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~jander/tot2010/tse10intro.htm

[Gargoyle_Steve]

Glen may I ask are you arranging your trip through one of the specialist tour groups? I'd be interested to know who you may be planning to go with, or what details you may have at hand, as I hear it's already stating to book out with some operators.

Cheers .....
Steve

[glenc]

We will be independent travellers.
Might buy a 4 Continents round the world ticket with One World.
There are a total of 4 flights allowed within each Continent except North America, where there are 6 flights allowed.

[sheeny]

What a question, hOughy!

I'd travel a lot further to see something than I would to not see it!!!:rofl:

Unless I'm just going to do some lunar imaging (because the moon is up) I routinely drive about 22ks each way to get to my viewing site (dark). Really I suppose I'm getting away from the street lights over my yard and the lights of the town and factories...

It depends too on what's important, what you are seeing or the journey? I've travelled 350ks each way in the one day to have a look at the Parkes Radio Telescope, but it was the cruising country roads on the BM that was the important bit...

I should've travelled just 50 or so ks to Bathurst the other day for the Mercury Transit but I didn't know it was clear there did I? 20/20 hindsight... don't you love it?:P If I could've known that 100ks away would definitely be clear and here wasn't, I would go... trouble is that element of uncertainty!

Al.