The Qld Astrofest was a blast. Went up with my friend Henry last night and stayed the night. Food and lodging was great plus we were blessed with steady and transparent skies last night. Throughout the day (we got there just in time for the vendor tables) we also caught up with various familliar faces (mostly IIS and SAS members). It was good to see all you good people, Paul (1ponders), Mark (Hodgson), Jeanette, Ron (thanks for letting me use your 16" and the 13T6 Nagler
, Pete (Robbins...got a sneaky peak at the M57 and the Veil despite problems with the encoders), Pete (Marples) and Kevin (Dixon). Met several other good people and got to look through scopes of different apertures including Neptune in Astrojunk's SDM scope. Plus I got to try out my new StarBlast under dark skies (and it did not disappoint), and bagged a few new galaxies with the C6 in Pavo.....
Anyway,
Darren