I had a fantastic time this weekend at the Takahashi Star Party, I enjoyed every minute of it.
Saw many of the great southern objects for the first time in my life and with the most amazing scopes at my disposal, there were next to no queues either for us, so it was pure luxury. My jaw dropped when the Magellanic Clouds first starting appearing, and I got some cool widefield shots as well.
Even more importantly, it was so great to hang out with friendly people with common interests. There's no astronomy clubs in the Faroe Islands unfortunately (got to do something about that!)
Big thanks to the hosts and everyone else for having me & showing me around the southern skies, I will see some of you again for the SPSP and I'd love to come back anytime.
Special thanks to Matt for transporting me to Canberra after the star party & showing me around the Stromlo observatory & Tidbinbilla tracking station (I could happily spend all day there), it was remarkable to think about that 70 metre dish is still receiving information from the Voyager 2 more than 18.8 billion kilometres away.
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