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Old 28-02-2013, 09:37 AM
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How far would you travel

Folks,

I'm curious as to how far folk would travel for a 3 -4 day star party.

Up in North Qld we have a number of centres with 5 hours of Townsville and I am considering if it might be possible to stage a successful event in the local outback area towards Charter Towers. Your thoughts appreciated
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Old 28-02-2013, 08:22 PM
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The answer to that depends on:
- a high likelihood of excellent seeing conditions at the observing site - cloud, how dark, wind, steady or turbulent seeing etc; ideally the observing area should be a short distance from where people will camp;
- for 4 days it had better have some facilities - at the very least water, toilets, showers and an attractive campsite with fireplaces and firewood;
- how unpleasant will it be during the day ( some places are frankly quite unpleasant - hot, humid);
- flies/mozzies can be enough to make some go home;
- what else is there to do during the day, especially if the weather is unfavorable.

There are places like this but they are rare, I only know of 2-3 in the southern states.
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Old 02-03-2013, 10:49 AM
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Sounds about what I thought - hopefully Bivouac Junction near Charters Towers will fulfill those criteria. Luckily for us the weather in late winmter and autumn are pretty well always clear.
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