Sydney Observatory on The Great Outdoors last night

[iceman]

Anyone watch "The Great Outdoors" last night?

Jennifer Hawkins had a segment on "The Observatory Hotel" and Sydney Observatory. Was pretty interesting.. man that hotel is swish.. very expensive though.

She then went up to the observatory, and that's where it got funny :) She got a star named after her "Hawko", probably some mag 15 speck :) The funniest part was watching her look through the eyepiece..

She leant down, took a fistful of eyepiece making the scope wobble, and then they "showed" what she was looking at, presumably her new star.. The guide described it as a blue/white star.. funny though, I never thought a star looked like a blue spiral galaxy - which is what they showed on the TV screen!

Funny stuff :) Astronomy in the media can be so so wrong sometimes :)

[h0ughy]

your just jealous because she didn't look through your scope Mike! LOL mag 21 for the wife?????

[Volans]

Too right Mike! I get very nervous when a TV crew comes along to work. Sometimes they simply use our displays as a backdrop and say their bit to camera but if something dodgy is said and goes to air then our credibility goes down the gurgler. I like to peruse their speeches before thay make them and correct any clangers.

Last year, which was a leap second year, a reporter came along and interviewed the boss about leap seconds etc. The reporter and I were chatting while the boss was being filmed looking up at our big sundial when the reporter asked me if sundials were the most accurate time keepers in the world!! Nooooo...there is a thing called :atom: clock !!

Sometimes we have to prepare statements which are then read by others who have ZERO astronomical knowledge. Sometimes these people think they can ad lib with interesting results.

"Comet Hyakutake is the brightest comet seen in our atmosphere since..."

I'm very glad it never got that close :scared:

Peter.

[ving]

media! BAH!

news flash!!! violent riot starts in marrickville!!!!
(ie some drunk is swing a bottle of cheap wine around) :rolleyes:

the media has alot to answer for.
wish i'd seen it now :)

[johnno]

I did like the look of the LX 200?,and the goto mount though.

Noticed the Scope,and mount,
when I stopped focusing on Jennifer.

I said Geez,thats nice.
Kathy said,What?,the Scope.or Jennifer.

I didn't think she new me that well,
I mean,
We have only been married for 32 years.

Wives,
Dont miss a trick,do they?

Regards.
John