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Originally Posted by AussieAaron
Oh wow, I would love to attend this Starparty, Really sounds Amazing, Im going to look into it and see what i can do, I might try and see if i can purchase a telescope by then and make my way there, Do i have to register to attend??? also what kind of accommodation is available there??? any special passes i need???
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Hi Aaron,
We've got some really good speakers this year and the Winter sky at Wiruna can be spectacular if the weather is kind. You will need to register before the event by going here:
http://asnsw.com/spsp/index.asp and following the "Register Now" link.
There is probably no big hurry to get a telescope of your own before the event. In fact I'd recommend you wait and use other people's scopes at the star party before you decide on what you want. Most people will gladly share some telescope time with you and that way you can get a lot better idea about what you want to buy and what will work well for you.
We should have at least 100 telescopes at the event, which will give you a good selection to sample! And a very diverse range, including home built scopes, commercial dobs (sky watcher dobs, GSO dobs, meade light bridge etc), large obsessions, equatorial mounted newtonians, a range of meade goto's, large and small refractors, possibly a few planewave's, the only
spica eyes dob in Australia and many others I've forgotten to list.
Come along, you will have a ball.
Cheers,
Paul.