My laptop appears to be as it was - I don't think they re-installed it after all and both of my disks have been returned too, which really is great news. I only bought those disks a couple of weeks before and they costs a good $150 each and had my entire system backed up on them! I will travel to the Sunshine coast next week to collect.
In the interests of being fair - whilst there were two people at astrofest together I believe that only one of them actually took the laptop, possibly without the other person's knowledge - but that is only giving the benefit of the doubt - innocent until/unless proven guilty I suppose.
For me it will be the end of the matter but it is a lesson to us all and I'm sure it will mean the imposition of a little more security at Astrofest next year - a shame, but that is the way of the world these days.
Irrespective of the incident I had an absolutely glorious astrofest - I have so many great memories from this year and so much fun. Looking out of my 'warm room' with the door open at 01:00 as Scorpious was in full decent to the dark western horizon is a viewthat is etched in to my memory.
I have plenty of daytime shots of the field which I will post in due course.
Chris
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