There weren't as many people there as last time I went, but given the weather that's not surprising. I had a long chat with the guys from Northern Sydney Astronomical Society and Bintel.
Michael was amazing people demonstrating an GSO RC12 truss on an EQ8. The mount is practically silent. He was controlling it over WiFi from his iPad with Orion's Starseek app and hardware. (Starseek is licensed from Southern Stars and pretty much interchangeable with Sky Safari.) A couple of us were allowed to "steal" the connection and run the mount from our iPads or iPhones.
Oh yes. David had his multiwatt laser out of the lab and lighting up the clouds. Rather overkill for pointing out objects. Sure makes a 50mW pen look dim.
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