davidpretorius
07-11-2005, 11:06 PM
Saturday (cont)
I really enjoyed saturday night when a bunch of us started playing with registax and Bird offered up a heap of his raw data of jupiter. We all sat there enthralled as he showed us very patiently how to use registax properly on great data.
No viewing, but with quality time learning about registax, it was great.
Naughty boy corner took over later that night as we all remembered those great times when you get pinged by the moderators or even the big boss. There were tears running down our faces from laughing. Geoff (moderator) eventually told us to stop spamming and get to bed!!
Sunday:
A lovely day tinkering with scopes taking images of trees and comparing scopes with cameras.
Highlight was the spit roast and all the families getting together. Kids loved it! Dave Girling stepped up to the plate and had the laughter happening again with the tape of the "scientific" meteor expedition. I will not attempt to try and tell this one, I can't tell jokes. Grab Dave at a get together and ask!!!
We all rushed out to get some viewing done, but just as the scopes were cooling, hello clouds!!! - bugga.
Monday:
Off to Sovereign hill, which was a blast with the family.
We tackled the coronado and got some great images. We all sat around and processed with registax on a projector screen. Mr Tuc47's video did not work, so transit of venus was a no show, but the weather was looking the goods.
As no doubt you have heard, it was a great night. Two highlights for me (there others will be put into the observing report) was watching anthony hopping around with glee with mars and Mr Tuc47 and his laser. The man is an absolute sync of knowledge. Where's andomeda Dave? here, he points immediately with a laser. i can see it from here (naked eye mind you!!) 10,000 scopes all turn to follow the laser!!! Later in the night, he then showed me the massive constellation of a snake. Absolutely brilliant!
Lots of fun early morning as saturn was rising to a cheer, out came the barlows and silly season started. Who could get the highest mag???
Eventually bed beckoned at 5.30am, Bird was just having a crack at saturn. I thought i would say good bye when i awoke, but like a dream, the tent, computers, scope & bird was gone back to canberra.
As has been said before, great events, great characters & mateship. Monday was a bonus. It could have rained for 4 nights and it would have still been a success!
Stay tuned for part III
I really enjoyed saturday night when a bunch of us started playing with registax and Bird offered up a heap of his raw data of jupiter. We all sat there enthralled as he showed us very patiently how to use registax properly on great data.
No viewing, but with quality time learning about registax, it was great.
Naughty boy corner took over later that night as we all remembered those great times when you get pinged by the moderators or even the big boss. There were tears running down our faces from laughing. Geoff (moderator) eventually told us to stop spamming and get to bed!!
Sunday:
A lovely day tinkering with scopes taking images of trees and comparing scopes with cameras.
Highlight was the spit roast and all the families getting together. Kids loved it! Dave Girling stepped up to the plate and had the laughter happening again with the tape of the "scientific" meteor expedition. I will not attempt to try and tell this one, I can't tell jokes. Grab Dave at a get together and ask!!!
We all rushed out to get some viewing done, but just as the scopes were cooling, hello clouds!!! - bugga.
Monday:
Off to Sovereign hill, which was a blast with the family.
We tackled the coronado and got some great images. We all sat around and processed with registax on a projector screen. Mr Tuc47's video did not work, so transit of venus was a no show, but the weather was looking the goods.
As no doubt you have heard, it was a great night. Two highlights for me (there others will be put into the observing report) was watching anthony hopping around with glee with mars and Mr Tuc47 and his laser. The man is an absolute sync of knowledge. Where's andomeda Dave? here, he points immediately with a laser. i can see it from here (naked eye mind you!!) 10,000 scopes all turn to follow the laser!!! Later in the night, he then showed me the massive constellation of a snake. Absolutely brilliant!
Lots of fun early morning as saturn was rising to a cheer, out came the barlows and silly season started. Who could get the highest mag???
Eventually bed beckoned at 5.30am, Bird was just having a crack at saturn. I thought i would say good bye when i awoke, but like a dream, the tent, computers, scope & bird was gone back to canberra.
As has been said before, great events, great characters & mateship. Monday was a bonus. It could have rained for 4 nights and it would have still been a success!
Stay tuned for part III