What to do in the wet Season ?

[gaa_ian]

Well ... we are doing a Telecopes & Astronomy night here in Nhulunbuy.
Should be a lot of fun, a big thanks to Aust Sky & Tel for permission to show the "hubble" DVD & a great door prize.
I will post pictures of the event afterwards!

[ballaratdragons]

Sounds good enough to go to Ian! Enjoy it.

[h0ughy]

as an added bonus I hopeit is a pearler of a night sky wise

[Mick]

Hope all goes well Ian.

[davidpretorius]

read the heading and thought i could be a funny bugga and say "well, just tap your wife on the shoulder and see if she is keen", but then upon opening, i realized you already had an event to do in the rainy season.

best of luck with this one, it should be a cracker

[gaa_ian]

:lol: I am sure you are right there Dave, I would like to bet there are more Sept & October babies
born in the tropics ;)
As for the Telescopes night, I have done a trial run of the DVD on the BIG screen (Cinema Size) and it looks & sounds awesome.
We will also have club members pulling scopes apart to show how they work.
Some Demos of ATM & a "clinic" to help people get the most out of their scopes.
I'm looking forward to it :)

[xrekcor]

Good luck with your evening, We're are pretty much flooded in here, The veggie
garden is gone :( that was two days ago and it's still coming down strong. I
wonder if both bridges on the road in here are still above water. But then again I
remember last years was the same... then at the end of Jan we had 3 months of
almost perfect weather!!! looking forward to that!!!!

regards,CS

[jjjnettie]

Good luck with the event Ian. Hope everyone has a good time.

Poor Rob,
I know the work that you would have put into your vege garden. Heartbreaking.

[gaa_ian]

Thanks nettie & Rob
This Arvo will be busy setting up !
Could get 20, could get 200 people, hard to tell in gove !

[h0ughy]

well mate at least your guaranteed minimum 2!

[dhumpie]

Good luck with the event! As for Rob, the rains might be my fault (although I did have 1 1/2 weeks of nice clear...but HOT weather during X-Mas) as I got my 10" GS dob several days prior to X-Mas. Looks like the rain gods are back from vacation.....

Darren

[xrekcor]

Darren, cool man! as long as your at least getting some good skies I'll wear your weather in a box lol... How's a the new scope you must be loving that!!

jjjnetie, well at least the silver beet survived at 3.99 a bunch at the supermarket
I'm very pleased lol

My yard now looks like a semi marsh... just waiting on the mozzies, if they weren't bad
before they will be shortly.

regards,CS and wet feet

[ving]

thank god for silver beets!

looks like a good event ian, hope you get a good turnout

BTW you spelled "night" wrong :P

[xrekcor]

I think me Tomatoes and Rockmelons are going to come through too :)

lost my chilli trees though :mad2:

regards,CS

[ving]

alway wanted a chilli tree... they look purdy. glad all is not lost then. are the chillis a big seller there?


oh and rob, whens "the looking glass" coming? Ithink its been coming since march last year :P

[xrekcor]

Not really sure if they are a big seller here as I grow my own lol. I have Bell chillies
which are a bit like sweat red capsicum but with a cracked pepper kinda after taste.
They are pretty much stuffed. A kinda thumb size variety which you can also eat raw
(before they go red that is), again a bit like a young capsicum with more of a bite.
And a very hot variety from indonesia you could etch concret with which I generally
use for making spray for the garden. When I get a few kgs together I send them up
the road to the o'l girls in the bush and they come back as chillie relish! : )

Ummmmm...errrrr...yeah well I changed providers awhiles back and haven't uploaded
it. But I'm also in the middle of redoing it with a slight change of theme. Being busy
then lazy then busy... you know how it is lol... I think I better go re-edit my signature lol

regards,CS

[gaa_ian]

Telescopes & Astronomy night went really well.
Had about 50 odd people along and serveral new memberships for the club.
Even put together a brand new 8" Dob straight out of the box!

[RAJAH235]

Congrats on the new members, Ian.
Ahhh, a new dob. Bet that took you back a couple of years. Did you have any trouble with assembly? :poke: :D L.

[gaa_ian]

Actually I didn't have to do anything with the dob, the maintenance team took care of that :nerd: I was to busy raving on about the wonders of the universe ! (and encouraging folks to become new members) ;)