[Jen]

ONCE IN A LIFETIME
I made it on page 2


Wow what a day that was I LOVED IT
I have always wanted to go out to the Lake Boga Observatory and i thought this was a good opportunity to do so So i rang them up and asked them if i could join them for the day, he was all concerned on the phone and said do you have proper equipment to do this (i sad hell yes)
So it was a date
I packed up all my gear and got out there just after 7 and i think he had a shock at what equipment i had (he said wow you are keen)
All he had was a solar scope i had 2 scopes and lots of eclipse glasses (which were a huge hit) thanks Bintel for last minute transaction
I parked my gear away from John as i didnt want to interfere with the school groups that he had come through but it wasnt long before i ended up taking over the whole show and John was very happy that i was there to help out and he brought his solar scope up next to me so we had the glasses the solar scope my 6inch newt and i had the dob running live view through the laptop we had quite a few schools come through and lots of driver byes popped in to have a look it was fantastic. I was on such a high and flat out all day that i didnt even have time to have brekky or lunch I was hoping to get my first timelaspe happening but Johnny wouldnt come to the party at the start so i missed the first half an hour i just realised that synscan does not have the sun to align the scope We were on ABC radio at 3:00pm i think it put Lake Boga on the map hahahah
Then when i seen my article in the paper i was so excited but i didnt have a picture of the transit to her in time as after such a long day i was very sunburnt ooops which gave me a rotten headache so looking at over 500 pics to process i was seeing spots everywhere hahaha so she will post my pic later on in the week yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Bring on the Solar Eclipse in November
I was so happy to be able to get my astro geek on for the day big time even though in the article she called us astrologers