Total trip distance approx 1900 km's - I drove all up in excess of 24 hours in a 35 hour period, has approx 5 hours sleep. Only real viewing?? The moon!
SOOOOO Happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Read about it here - before the very patient moderators can us all for this misuse of a "buy and sell" thread.
I put the mocker on him by saying that the last few weeks were clear - the day he comes up - bang -weather change the night before and high level cloud cover comes over.
Ahh well.
Starting to miss the DOB already !!
Will see in a few months
Good to catch up with fellow astronomers - AstroRon came up and I noted he is about 10 mins drive from the in-laws.
Actually I was er.... emailing Lee from Andrews about the 16" DOB Steve and Ron were talking to me about - it is a truss DOB, but different from Meades in the design - it uses three poles as opposed to the cross design Meade use. Expected in Jan 07 - Feb 07.
Ah it was a great trip Wiliam, one of those special "road trip" things that you occasionally have to just DO in life sometimes, against all reason.
LPG is cheap, and I ran on it virtually all the way there and back - some service station food, good clean but inexpensive overnight accomodation - I'd say $300 all up, it was all still a great deal AND Ron and I got to meet Chris too.
All in all, I'd give it 10 thumbs up on the Steveometer.
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