Well, my friend is visiting from Canberra this weekend and was the one to originally solidify my love for astronomy with my first views through a scope. So I've been thinking back to our many observing sessions together and a few funny tales came up.
A couple in particular stand out that still make us laugh hysterically to this day. My favourite would have to have been when my friend and I use to observe in her cul-de-sac. We would set up in front of her driveway and it was a usually very quiet dead end and had the best views. Anyway, she popped back inside to grab something when a car came up the street. On its return down the road I felt something hit my back!
The car drove away and I turned around to find eggs smashed all over the road. I'd been egged!!! Just innocently observing away...
Thankfully they didn't break against my back so no yucky egg juice on me.
The other one that stands out very clearly in my mind and sends me into peels of laughter every time I remember it is when my friend and I attended an SEQAS observing night at the Indooroopilly High School. We didn't take the scope, just looked through other people's and had a good chat.
I had parked near the oval and didn't want to blind everyone with my lights when we left. So I kept the headlights off long enough to turn the car around. Little did I know, a bunch of sticks had lodged themselves beneath my car so when I got back out on the road, all I could here was clunk, clunk, clunk! (bearing in mind I hadn't had my license long either
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I then went to stop the car, proceeded in stalling it and accidentally beeping the horn like a complete fool!
So here we are, two astro chicks on the ground with our red torches pulling sticks out from under my car whilst laughing our heads off. We finally get in the car and back on the road only to face a gigantic hill which I revved too much on and sped away into the night!
I wonder who else has any weird or funny stories to tell whilst observing or attending an astro event?
