Anyone from Perth?

[samchng]

Dear all,

I am from Singapore and I have been referred to this forum by a fellow Singaporean who has attended a number of your star parties over in South Australia and Sydney region. I myself would be heading down to Perth in Sept / Oct for a trip of my own. Doing an exchange in a local uni there.

I would love to meet some astro buffs around and experience some starlight away from light polluted Singapore. :lol::lol::lol:

Anyone?

[rogerg]

samchng,

Yes! Sep/Oct is a great time to be coming, both for weather (generally) and activities.

In October ASWA (http://aswa.info/) has it's twice-yearly Astro Camp, a weekend at relatively dark skies 2 hours drive from Perth. There's usually about 30 - 40 members with a good range of telescopes and lots of friendly people, it's always a great weekend, I've been about 13 times now. We often have international guests that come along.

I sort of lead a bunch of people that regularly go to dark sky locations for observing, usually 2 - 6 of us, on/around the new moon weekend of each month. We usually drive about 2 - 3 hours inland and camp or stay at a farmstay for the night, only one night's viewing. You'd be more than welcome to come along to that also, we have had international guests with us in the past also.

ASWA (http://aswa.info/) has a bunch of other activities during that time, like lunar viewing and other dark sky activities but they're all closer to the city in varying degrees of light pollution, but still a good friendly bunch of astro buffs/nuts ;) to have a chat and laugh with anyway.

Feel free to contact me... roger [at] rogergroom.com if you want to find out more leading up to the time.

Is your exchange just for the 2 months?

[samchng]

Thanks Roger for the info! :lol: My exchange would be only for 1month. I will be looking to contact you when the time is drawing near. I would definitely love to stay over at a farmstay. ;)

Anyway here are my old old old links of the astro I did when I was younger.
Check it out! :thumbsup:
http://www.zestweb.com/astro/astroindulgence.html
http://www.zestweb.com/astro/eclipse/eclipse.html

Warmest Regards,
Sam