Cambroon This Weekend

[astroron]

The Astronight that was unable to go ahead last weekend is on this coming weekend the 7th June weather permitting.:astron::stargaze:
Ron

[AlexN]

unreal! Will see you at 3.30 - 4pm saturday ron. I'll bring up what i'm upto with your website, and we can go over any changes or additions you'd like to make.. See you then

[astroron]

:cool::cool: will see you then
Ron

[Gargoyle_Steve]

As you know Ron I can't make it this weekend due to an overindulgence of being rostered to work ..... but the weather reports are showing that Thursday may be the finest / clearest day and night this week ......

:whistle:


Talk soon!
:thumbsup:

[astroron]

Sorry you carn't make it Steve:(, so we will just have to make the best of the night without you:P
See your weather station, did you get a message?:)
Ron

[Gargoyle_Steve]

I'll check when I get home in a couple of hours Ron, and I'll try to send a reply back via the Weather Underground.

[Xeelee]

I've heard that this weekend is the Queens Birthday long weekend, so I'm really having a hard debate on whether to go this weekend.

So put me down for a maybe.

Chris

[AlexN]

it sure is a long weekend..

[Tandum]

I wouldn't mind joining you guys if I finish work early enough on saturday.

I can drag this honking big refractor up there for Alex to check out :)

[AlexN]

Sounds brilliant Tandum. :) It'd make an awesome location to capture some images from too... the sky is.. Oh, so dark!!

Ron - I might (providing you dont mind of course) stay saturday and sunday night being a long weekend and all...

[Tandum]

I've only got one set of ill fitting rings for the guide scope and they are on the dob. The new set won't arrive till next week sometime. But, we should be able to snap some clusters unguided through the refractor.

It would also be nice to get away from that orange beacon they have over the bus stop next door, not to mention seeing to the south without looking at the wall of a house. But it's a contract job on saturday and I don't know how long it will take. I'll try and get to it one evening before then to sus it out.

Did you order that eq6goto from sirius?

[AlexN]

Well lets hope you can get the job done.. I've gotta work saturday morning till midday which sucks... but I'll brave it... more dollars to throw at gear :D

Re. the eq6: I spoke to them, they have my name on one when they come in.. :)

[Tandum]

Me too, couldn't resist it.

I replaced the rubber bearings in my heq5's RA drive chain with proper thrust bearings this arvo, hope that improves things. The miniature bearing shop on wecker road is now a hobby engineering center. Lots of r/c cars, planes and helicopters lying around but they have almost every nut bolt and bearing you'd ever need for anything ;)

[Davros]

Sigh, working this weekend unfortunately. Hope the clouds stay away for you.

[astroron]

Thats OK Alex:thumbsup:If anyone else wants to do two nights they are quite welcome:astron::stargaze:
Ron

[Xeelee]

Sorry Ron, still couldn't make it this weekend.
Hope to see you sometime soon. :thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

I doubt if I'll be able to make it either.
We're working the coffee cart all the long weekend.
If I do manage to go AWOL, it would probably be on Sunday night. It all depends on how busy we are.

[AlexN]

Looks like it'll be a quiet night Ron :)

Damn auspost being so slow... I wont have my new toys to play with...

[007Borg]

You can count us in for Sat night Ron... I'm keeping the fingers crossed those rains stay away :thumbsup:

Shaun

[Tandum]

I got that job out of the way so I'm clear for tomorrow. See ya there.

Looking at the Radar, it's raining up there.
http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR503.loop.shtml?looping=1&reloaded=0&topography=true&locations=true&range=true#skip

[007Borg]

Yes its raining at mapleton right now... 12:30pm:( and when its not raining there's just misty cloud... Maybe we should get some "big ass" fans for Ron to blow the cloud away...:lol: (You know the fans they have hanging from the roof at Bunnings)

[AlexN]

heh....

Yeah, well here in brisbane now its still heavily clouded.... Im debating whether its worth it :(

[astroron]

It is very cloudy here and we have had about 6mm rain,and the forecast does not look promising for the rest of the day:mad2:
When I get my Website up and running,you will be able to see for yourself what the weather is like here.
Ron

[AlexN]

Ron, Could you please send me a PM tomorrow if the weather starts looking better...

I'll come up tomorrow to work with you for a while on the website/integrating weather data to it etc..

Whether or not I bring my gear up or not really depends on the weather..

Fingers crossed.

[astroron]

Alex, will do.
There is some blue sky around, but also lots of cloud.
Thanks.
Ron