Yeah David I agree - I was talking to Chris today (did I say great web page
and for the price of an eyepiece (does anyone still use them ?) you can have tuition by the best in the world and the opportunity for one on one instruction by them (remember thats they are there for).
Also I should add that the Aussie speakers at this stage are doing this for the love of the hobby - depending on sponsorship, attendance etc I am going to reimburse what I can but bottom line is that it is all about sharing and dissemination of knowledge. Even the best will pick up info.
Now if anyone can give me some sky around a new moon in SE Qld I can capture some data for my presentation. Its going to be damned boring without data to do my comparative study - but then again a lot of you havent heard all my bad old jokes ;-)
MB