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Originally Posted by dreamstation
How would one attempt to attend something like this if you didn't plan on taking a scope, only wanted to visit for the one night and have never met anyone before from IIS?
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James
I have not been to Astrofest unfortunately, but I will relate my first experiences attending astro camps. My first was in 2008 at the ASV Messier party at Heathcote. I arrived at the venue to find over 100 people already there. The observing field was already being covered with what to me looked like a very impressive array of scopes and i found myself quite unwilling to even get my little 130mm wobbletronic scope out of the car. Anyway after a couple of hours wandering around I started chatting to a gentleman who asked me about my scope, and I said "Oh I don't think i will bother getting it out it's pretty small and unimpressive".
"Nonsense" he said, "Get it out and I will help you to use it"
We ended up having a great night, learnt more about scopes and observing that one night than I had in a couple of years of cruising the internet and have been going to camps ever since.
Just take the plunge and join in, they are great fun!!
Malcolm