Hi All,
Well I would like to thank all of you for your generous congrats.It has certainly been a busy 3 years and 11 months. I am not used to all the attention that I and the BOSS group get so all I can say is many thanks.It is always great to hear all of your comments.First and formost I must thank my wife Lynn certinally if she didnt support what I was doing it would of never worked and putting up with me when I miss a supernova(not real good time around the house).Also for milking the cows when I have spent 24 hours up and need some sleep!!!(BTW she always milks the cows I am only a spare wheel.)
But I would like to pay a special thanks to the BOSS crew without which I would have never got my and our search programmes off the ground. Their support and friendship is unreal and I hope will last for a lifetime.
From my first email to Peter Marples to having a first meal with Greg Bock and Pat Pearl here in NZ and then meeting Colin Drescher and Brendan Downs so much has changed. The best part is to have the respect of professionals in the field that we do for a hobby is just great and very satisfying.
Thanks to the above guys for helping me with reporting, confirmation images and many other parts of supernova hunting and amateur astronomy.
I remember talking to Pete on the phone many moons ago that I was so pleased that I managed to image 10 galaxies in one night!!! Great , now on a good night I will do anything from 500-1500 images per night.
Well not sure what will happen in the future but it’s been a blast (literally).
Stu

