[Rodstar (Rod)]

If you are ever in the general vicinity of the Central Coast, NSW, it is worth dropping in on the Kulnura Observatory.

Icceman and I went there last night...early on it looked grim with the clouds, but in the end we got lucky with seeing some grand sights....Saturn, M42, Eta Carina etc. through a 20" Dob. No luck finding Machholz, but I think it was below the treeline. They also had a 10" Dob and what looked like an 8" Meade LX200 on hand. The moon looked pretty damn fine through these.

Usually the groups that go through Kulnura Observatory are quite small, as it was last night, so viewing times on the scopes is pretty good, and they seem very happy for people to bring their own scopes to add to the occasion! They also do "special requests"!!!

See you up there sometime soon...maybe a IceinSpace contingent could go up sometime, for those who can make it from NSW??

Rodstar