Hi all,
Katoomba Airfield is being made available to us on Saturday Feb. 25.
This will be the first session at the Airfield since November last year. Let's hope that the clouds give us photon junkies the fix we so desperately need,
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If you'd like to join us, and you haven't been to the Airfield before, access to it is via Medlow Bath. At the villiage's only set of lights, turn into Station Street and then left into Rutland Street. The Airfield is 4km from this intersection, with the last 3km an unsealed road.
Note that the National Parks mob haven't graded their section of this unsealed road for some time now, and there is some errosion of the surface. Take it easy.
On entering the Airfield, keep to the left hand track up to the hangers. Go through the "no entry" sign and turn right at the buildings and up the crest to the main runway. We set up on the concrete slab on the left. See the picture below for details.
If the night happens to be a corker, we are welcome to crash out in the office building for some shut eye. There are loos, but that's it. Everything else is BYO. Power, water, everything.
If you don't have a scope, not to worry. We all there like to share our stuff and knowledge.
Also, if you haven't been to a star party before, please note that white light torches are our worst enemy. We advise that you cover your torches with two, three or four layers of red cellophane as red light is the least damaging to our night vision.
As always, I'll be hoping to get there an hour to half and hour before sun set.
Mental.