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Old 09-03-2008, 10:15 AM
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The Three Rivers Foundation at Cooka Near Parkes

On Monday the 3rd of march Fred Koch and the 3RF. group visited Parkes the set up at the CWAS observing site at COOKAMIDGERA,East of Parkes.We had John Trudgeon form Canowindra with his 20inch SDM dob . The 3RF had 3 18 inch Obsessions.there were 25x150mm Fujinion.on Parallelogram mount.the Starchair.Paul Shopis and Mark Sutching travelled from Sydney and set up the 12 inch Binoscope.Ther were also smaller Am scopes set up.we had between 50 and 60 people turn up.The seeing was perfect plus not a Cloud to be seen.The night finished about 11.45pm.The next day the 3RF group were given a tour through the Parkes Telescope by John Sarkissian .I think everyone enjoyed themselves.
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