Hi all,
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the theater...
Tonight I finally determined the length of the poles of my truss dob. Took the dob components to Dudley Park in Sydney's Dover Heights as it has a great view of the city sky line. Found out it is surrounded by paranoid residents too!
I had the help of my mum and sister. Their help was much appreciated too.
No sooner did I start setting up the scope that one of the residents made his presence felt by a none to subtle shot that he was 'seeing that it wasn't kids setting of fireworks'! Yeah, right, with his menecing stand-over pose.
Five minutes latter, there was the grinding crunch of hard braking and some sheila appears, takes some quick pics and takes off in a hurry!
WOW!
Now I'm a person of interest to ASIO!!
! Woohoo, you morons. Instead of approaching me and asking what is going on, you jump to conclusions! Great job! Not.
I'm quite sure this would have happened if I had set up during the day too. Probably serves me right for being overly cautious in not wanting to inadvertently zapping my eyes with the sun's reflection from a 17.5" mirror,
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So, watch out, boys and girls! Set up your dobbies in the wrong neighbourhood, and ASIO will put you in their little red book!
Mental.
P.S. Hey, Spooks, go to this link and see what I'm doing, know-it-alls:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=54572