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iceman
15-04-2009, 10:36 AM
Hi all

For people from the Central Coast and surrounds, you might be interested in this.

I'll be going along myself to answer any questions I can, as well as showing some of my images.



See the attached PDF for more.

Hope to see you there!
iceman
29-04-2009, 10:52 AM
This is on tomorrow night! Don't forget!
h0ughy
29-04-2009, 11:15 AM
our night up here went OK Mike - hope things Go ok there. the regional Manager is a nice lady - she knows about the Paintball site
iceman
29-04-2009, 11:19 AM
Did you have one up there, Dave?
h0ughy
29-04-2009, 12:35 PM
yes last thursday night from 4 until 8pm at Westfield kotara
RB
29-04-2009, 06:24 PM
I would've come along Mike, but I'm working every night this week.
While you're there, could you get me your autograph. :P
Inmykombi
29-04-2009, 08:30 PM
Darn, I am working in Sydney tomorrow and will be back too late.

I sure hope your are not on your own there Mike.

Cheers.

Geoffro
gmbfilter
30-04-2009, 07:01 AM
Time for real hero stuff!
I'll even have my IceInSpace tee!
iceman
01-05-2009, 08:21 AM
Was a good turnout last night - about 40 people crammed into the Tuggerah store and learned a few things about IYA2009 and Galileo, then I gave a 10 minute talk with slideshow of my best images running on a TV in the background.

Lots of gasps and ooh/aahs at the right places which was nice :)

The sky cleared just enough for us to take two of their telescopes up to the roof of the Westfield shopping centre and we managed to get some viewing of the Moon and Saturn.

Even though Saturn was only viewed in a 70mm refractor with a 20mm and 10mm eyepiece, people were still suitably impressed with the view. As cliche as it sounds (we always say people say this), a child said "it looks like a drawing". People actually DO say that when they see Saturn for the first time!

It was quite hard actually finding the objects in the first place - they didn't have a diagonal at first so it wouldn't come to focus, and the red dot finders had no batteries in them so trying to find Saturn without a finderscope was damn hard.

But we eventually succeeded and hopefully a few people left happy converts.

Great to see Geoff (gmbfilter) and John Bambury there. I actually knew Ferne (the organiser) from Karate! Small world.