Adrian as Ron mentioned we have set ourselves the goal of running 2 of these camps each year, aimed to coincide with a new moon around April and September, or thereabouts - basically Autumn and Spring.
This will be our 3rd camp, and so far so good it's all going well, and people seem to really enjoy the atmosphere there! The Barambah EEC isn't a huge place but it's comfortable, facilities are excellent, it's not very expensive, and it's very relaxing and peaceful!!
We've been lucky this year in that the new moons have fallen during school holidays, and so we've been able to book the Barambah Environmental Education Centre for several days at a time. During school terms it is normally only available on weekends, from Friday afternoon through to Sunday afternoon. Next year may be a different issue regards timing of new moons... which we'll start thinking about as soon as we have THIS camp over and done.
It's always a pleasure to met new people that share a love for astronomy, and there's few better places than Barambah to do so. So if you can make it Adrian it would be great to see you there, and that goes for anyone else as well - this isn't just an "Ice in Space" camp either, it is open to anyone who loves getting out under a really dark sky and looking upwards!
If you haven't see it yet, here's the webpage for the camp:
www.darkskycamp.org.au
(which includes the registration page- let us know now if you're coming, or even thinking of coming, so we can make preparations)
and here's the news blogg we've set up so we can provide quick info updates on all Camp related stuff:
http://darkskycamp.blogspot.com/
(both thanks to the awesome powers of my co-registrar Dr Morbius, who in his secret identity as "Randall" manages to get payed by someone else to do programming and generally play software god all week.)