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23-11-2022, 08:20 AM
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Gravity does not Suck
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Tabulam
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What do you want for Christmas?
Christmas is not far off and as it will be an expensive affair so one better start planning around about now.
Traditionally it is a time where not only do we give gifts to others but we also give ourselves a gift or two that would at other times of the year seem like sheer extravagance.
Now all I want is world peace and prosperity to all those humans who have been doing it tuff as I used all my Christmases earlier this year...but...what do you want?....and your reply does not have to be reasonable or humble and if you wish be totally greedy that is entirely acceptable or you can share your plans for some reasonable even modest astro purchases ...and if you have not thought of the opportunity that Christmas presents for personal gift giving now is your chance to capitalise.
Actually thinking more perhaps I could go for a fully astro decked out camper van with a built in observatory and work station with hydraulic rams that extend to stabilise the whole thing when you arrive at that distant clear, dry and dark site...on Christmas day.
Alex
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23-11-2022, 08:44 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2022
Location: Melbourne
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That's an easy one for me - a good-sized block of land with dark skies, where I can have an off-grid house, build an observatory and raise/grow my own food.
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23-11-2022, 08:53 AM
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Look up!
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: All around, Sometimes up, sometimes...
Posts: 412
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I'm going for World Peace
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23-11-2022, 11:15 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2022
Location: Auckland
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The way the weather has been here lately, I'll take even just one clear night.
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23-11-2022, 01:37 PM
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Dazed and confused
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 3,505
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CLEAR SKIES for three months
the end!
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23-11-2022, 01:43 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Warrnambool
Posts: 12,800
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Happiness and peace to all, especially those who have suffered great loss from the floods,  and all those people overseas that only want peace in their lives. 
As for me I don't need anything, I have all that I need, and my Alice.
Leon 
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23-11-2022, 02:28 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by leon
Happiness and peace to all, especially those who have suffered great loss from the floods, and all those people overseas that only want peace in their lives.
As for me I don't need anything, I have all that I need, and my Alice.
Leon |
You need Win 11 leon
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23-11-2022, 02:46 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Wollongong
Posts: 1,913
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Quote:
Originally Posted by leon
Happiness and peace to all, especially those who have suffered great loss from the floods, and all those people overseas that only want peace in their lives.
As for me I don't need anything, I have all that I need, and my Alice.
Leon |
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23-11-2022, 03:20 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Lake Macquarie
Posts: 7,121
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A Christmas song duet with my oldest grand daughter, her on the Cello and me on guitar, and the younger ones singing "Silent Night". That will do me. You guys have covered the big stuff.
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23-11-2022, 03:58 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Sydney and South Coast NSW
Posts: 6,669
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Celebrating with Family , kids and grandkids
Good health
Wishing for a reprieve from floods and bushfires for those who have lost family and homes in the past 3 years
A few clear nights won’t go astray either but not a priority
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23-11-2022, 04:00 PM
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SpeakingB4Thinking
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Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: Canberra
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I'll wish for getting social media under the same controls that already exist for printed and televised media...
The personal wish, I wish for a spherical mirror, and hopefully the understanding of "zonal errors: manual manipulation of zones and radius of curvature offset" and a decent lap medium to work with.
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23-11-2022, 04:24 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2022
Location: NELSON BAY Australia
Posts: 5
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Some sanity in northern europe and the end of the covid 19 nightmare,
barry
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23-11-2022, 04:32 PM
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Epick Crom
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Join Date: Jan 2021
Location: Perth
Posts: 493
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What I want for Christmas:
1. World peace
2. A case full of Ethos eyepieces
3. A 14 inch dob
4. Socceroos win the World Cup
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23-11-2022, 06:26 PM
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Ageing badly.
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Cloudy, light-polluted Bribie Is.
Posts: 3,760
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Quote:
Originally Posted by astroviking
that's an easy one for me - a good-sized block of land with dark skies, where i can have an off-grid house, build an observatory and raise/grow my own food.
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+1
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23-11-2022, 06:47 PM
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Senior Citizen
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Bribie Island
Posts: 5,068
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A seat on the trip to Mars ........
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23-11-2022, 07:02 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Warrnambool
Posts: 12,800
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I do Andrew, forgot about that one.
Leon
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23-11-2022, 08:58 PM
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Mostly Harmless
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Join Date: Jul 2020
Location: Bathurst, NSW
Posts: 832
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As my father was wont to say, peace and contentment.
Failing that, I'll settle for clear skies (and maybe a 2" Televue Barlow...)
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23-11-2022, 09:02 PM
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Gravity does not Suck
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Tabulam
Posts: 17,003
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I have decided..I just want many more Christmases...
Alex
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23-11-2022, 09:49 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Tea Tree Gully, South Australia
Posts: 67
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Just the usual I guess .......gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
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23-11-2022, 09:55 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 2,476
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Quote:
Originally Posted by xelasnave
Christmas is not far off and as it will be an expensive affair so one better start planning around about now.
Traditionally it is a time where not only do we give gifts to others but we also give ourselves a gift or two that would at other times of the year seem like sheer extravagance.
Now all I want is world peace and prosperity to all those humans who have been doing it tuff as I used all my Christmases earlier this year...but...what do you want?....and your reply does not have to be reasonable or humble and if you wish be totally greedy that is entirely acceptable or you can share your plans for some reasonable even modest astro purchases ...and if you have not thought of the opportunity that Christmas presents for personal gift giving now is your chance to capitalise.
Actually thinking more perhaps I could go for a fully astro decked out camper van with a built in observatory and work station with hydraulic rams that extend to stabilise the whole thing when you arrive at that distant clear, dry and dark site...on Christmas day.
Alex
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Not quite the Campervan but RV towable
http://piertechinc.com/mobile-observ...r-traveler-xl/
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