7thcrewmember
25-05-2010, 07:07 AM
Hi Everyone,
Finally got around to signing up to IIS. Admittedly, this is due to selling an item later in this month, but I've been a long time reader (lurker?!) of IIS, and love the passion people have here to their astronomy. My favourite section would have to be the DIY observatories (I'm a bit off doing that myself, but one day I'll be able to add to that thread).
A bit about myself. I've loved looking up ever since I was a kid, but only got involved with my local society (Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society) a few years ago. I was intending to do astroimaging, but I've put those ideas aside for the moment - I'm happy just to learn the sky at this stage - plenty of time for that later on. I've actually found I'm more interested in some of the science behind various astronomical ventures (both professional and amateur) at the moment. There's just so much to do and learn in this hobby. Anyway, at this time with a young family I'm quite prepared to learn to crawl, the walk, then run. The learning to crawl part is being done at the moment with my 10" Lightbridge. I've been using this scope the most and I'm happy to keep using it for the foreseeable future.
My IIS identity is a throw back to my early 80's childhood, and among one of the shows I liked from back then was the British sci-fi show 'Blake's 7' . The story writing was quite good, if you could get past the not-so-special effects. While the show was called Blake's 7, the promotional shots from Season 1 only featured 6 human / humanoid crew members. The 7th crew member (hence the IIS identity) was the space craft's on-board computer called 'Zen' - a non nonsense computer which looked after the human crew. The character Blake actually refers to Zen as the '7th crew member' when correcting one of his associates. In my avatar is Blake, and Zen was the 80's brown coloured, domed-wall background with the rectangular lights. So that's my long winded explanation, I hope it was worth it.
Anyway, I look forward to conversing with other IIS members here, and somewhere along the line might even meet a few of you all.
Clear skies, Brett.
Finally got around to signing up to IIS. Admittedly, this is due to selling an item later in this month, but I've been a long time reader (lurker?!) of IIS, and love the passion people have here to their astronomy. My favourite section would have to be the DIY observatories (I'm a bit off doing that myself, but one day I'll be able to add to that thread).
A bit about myself. I've loved looking up ever since I was a kid, but only got involved with my local society (Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society) a few years ago. I was intending to do astroimaging, but I've put those ideas aside for the moment - I'm happy just to learn the sky at this stage - plenty of time for that later on. I've actually found I'm more interested in some of the science behind various astronomical ventures (both professional and amateur) at the moment. There's just so much to do and learn in this hobby. Anyway, at this time with a young family I'm quite prepared to learn to crawl, the walk, then run. The learning to crawl part is being done at the moment with my 10" Lightbridge. I've been using this scope the most and I'm happy to keep using it for the foreseeable future.
My IIS identity is a throw back to my early 80's childhood, and among one of the shows I liked from back then was the British sci-fi show 'Blake's 7' . The story writing was quite good, if you could get past the not-so-special effects. While the show was called Blake's 7, the promotional shots from Season 1 only featured 6 human / humanoid crew members. The 7th crew member (hence the IIS identity) was the space craft's on-board computer called 'Zen' - a non nonsense computer which looked after the human crew. The character Blake actually refers to Zen as the '7th crew member' when correcting one of his associates. In my avatar is Blake, and Zen was the 80's brown coloured, domed-wall background with the rectangular lights. So that's my long winded explanation, I hope it was worth it.
Anyway, I look forward to conversing with other IIS members here, and somewhere along the line might even meet a few of you all.
Clear skies, Brett.