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Hi gang,
I love this stuff, so here's a few more of mine (because you didn't ask for it).
* Doing the last NACAA in Adelaide quite a number of delegates were observing naked eye from a nearby oval. Everything was going fine, until the automatic sprinkler system came on around 10pm. I didn't know amateurs could move so fast in the dark!
* quite some time ago I was observing on my own in a paddock, on a property near Oberon (one of the best dark skies I have ever seen). I had been stuck in the car most of the evening while a storm raged. It stopped, and I set up. It was quite a strange feeling, for there were continual flashes from the storm in the distance, and a little unnerving at times. Suddenly, something pushed me in the back and turning around all I could see was a large black mass, standing between me and my torch (talk about nearly jumping into orbit!). A cow had come into the paddock (which I had thought I had locked) - maybe he wanted a look?
* During a flight to the USA I was invited to the cockpit and spent the time observing the sky with the flight crew with all the lights, including the instrument lights, turned off. I wonder what the passengers would have thought if they knew? It wasn't a bad view considering we were looking through glass.
Regards
Glenn
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