[Tawhano]

Thanks for the warm greetings people.

Originally Posted by CoombellKid

Btw, in NZ it's Hey Bro in Oz it's G'day Mate lol

Funny story that. Although I lived in New Zealand 16 years I never quite got the G’Day down pat and it always came out as Gi’Day. I could do a good imitation of Billy T. James or Fred Dagg though. Alas I have lost the knack and gone back to being a full fledge yank. Have a good day!

Originally Posted by wavelandscott

I grew up south of Crawfordsville

I’m stuck in Bristol, two towns east of South Bend. Light pollution maximum even though I live in a “rural” township.

Originally Posted by DeanoNZL

Do you mean this Graham Loftus?

That’s the man, funny seeing a picture of him without his stocking cap. There was also another Graham (Willson?) who was a student of Graham Loftus that was in the process of making and selling a dobsonian he called Collapse-a-star or something like that. Being a rookie he let me test it out. It came apart in several pieces and fit in the back of the trunk (boot). You could set the scope up in 5 minutes from the several pieces it broke down into and be viewing right away. Both the Grahams had a knack for being able to point their scopes at will into the sky without using the finder scope and with a couple of nudges find just about anything.