Kulnura 23/09 - Page 2

iceman (Mike) · #21 22-09-2006, 10:50 AM

Sounds good gazz, i'll bring your chair along.

I think i'll be there till at least 12am-1am.

wavelandscott (Scott) · #22 22-09-2006, 05:39 PM

I am up to a strong maybe...with some kind words on Saturday and if I make breakfast for the kids (and clean up afterwards) I think I can attend...

Won't be able to stay real late (maybe midnight or so) but I think I'll make it...maybe with a child or two...

Clear Skies!

h0ughy (David) · #23 22-09-2006, 05:41 PM

sorry i have two pc installations to do tomorrow,one is private and can do in the afternoon, the other requires installation after hours. its a business. I so wanted to go this week. Bugger, I have had this PC sitting here for 3 weeks now all of a sudden they want it. Its not fair!!! I want to find out what a hedgehog is!!!! Scott was going to come with me, I had it all planned!!!!!

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #24 22-09-2006, 07:35 PM

seeing as how no one has piped up allready about the hedgehogs Houghy
i guess its a case of - if you don't go - you don't know

C'mon - we will be there ALL nite (well most of it) and the hedgehogs won't be there till late anyway
didn't you warn the wife that this second puter installation might take SOME time?
and that she shouldn't wait up for you

cahullian · #25 22-09-2006, 08:52 PM

LoL Geoff. Be the boss guys and live with a bit of grief and lay the law down.Gee this new age lets compromise stuff is getting way beyond a joke. What is she really going to do? Divorcece you? Go home tomorrow with a big club saying things like ugg ugg. Have a garlic king prawns for lunch and fart all afternoon and I bet she will be glad to see the back of you. Come on guys it's time for men to be men and sheep to be nervous.

Gazz

Rodstar (Rod) · #26 22-09-2006, 09:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cahullian

Have a garlic king prawns for lunch and fart all afternoon and I bet she will be glad to see the back of you.
Gazz

Gazz,

Just make sure you've finished all your farting before you join us at Kulnura....

cahullian · #27 22-09-2006, 09:15 PM

no way mate I'm keeping the best till last. Especially if my daughter is driving me as I will also have a few beers under my belt.

Gazz

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #28 22-09-2006, 09:49 PM

now lets see if i get this in the right order

cigars - wine - hedgehogs - beer - farting

forget the scopes - just bring the table and chairs and we can sit round and bag the blokes that don't turn up

Rodstar (Rod) · #29 22-09-2006, 10:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GTB_an_Owl

now lets see if i get this in the right order

cigars - wine - hedgehogs - beer - farting

We're such a classy mob...

cahullian · #30 22-09-2006, 10:11 PM

As they say variety is the spice of life. I could bring my pommie mate to add a bit of hoorah, but we might have to kill him and bury him in the middle of the field with his bum sticking up so Anthony will have a place to park his bike.

Gazz

tornado33 · #31 23-09-2006, 11:29 AM

I cant make it this time, will see if I can come down with the next contingent of Newcastle folks.
Scott

wavelandscott (Scott) · #32 23-09-2006, 04:03 PM

I'll be there with Campbell in tow...we will be leaving shortly...hope it is clear!

cahullian · #33 23-09-2006, 06:04 PM

Good news and bad news...first the bad,no hedgehogs, I tried everywhere after work finished yesterday and today but no go.
Good news,got some Neenish tarts(not loose women from the land of Neen) and some caramel slices.

See you all later.

Gazz

wavelandscott (Scott) · #34 23-09-2006, 11:07 PM

It was good to see all you guys...too bad it was a cloudy...

Made it home safe and sound (and in time to score a few points with my wife)...I expect to be allowed to come out to play again!

Cam had a good time with your kids Rodstar...hope all of the chocolate they consumed creates no ill effect!

iceman (Mike) · #35 24-09-2006, 05:57 AM

Shame about the cloud, I hope my leaving helped it to clear up!

Rodstar (Rod) · #36 24-09-2006, 06:51 AM

Thanks for the great company everyone (and chocolate courtesy of Campbell, and pizza and beer courtesy of Rocket Boy).

It was great to meet Helmut, Jacob's friend, who came observing for the first time in "a long time" (read decades). Shame about the clouds, Helmut, but I am sure you will agree that the company made up for it. Also good to meet David, for whom it was the second Saturday night in a row. It may be getting close to an addiction, David.

Scott was gracious enough to let me have a play with his Discovery Truss Dob (thanks Scott), we took in some nice nebulae in Sagittarius before the Milky Way became the Milky Fog (M8, M16, M17, M20). It was good Scott to spend some time learning about your scope and EP selection. That scope gives some very nice views, and is certainly a very convenient size.

H, I hope things cleared sufficiently for you to do some imaging. I noticed on the drive home that the cloud cover seemed to have suddenly cleared...not sure if it was my paranoia, or whether it actually did clear.

As always, great to share a laugh with Mike and RB, and Geoff's optimism is always enjoyed ("C'mon fellas, I know that it is hailing, but any moment now we are going to have pristine skies! "[I may have slightly misquoted Geoff, there]).

Jack, Noah and Eva had a great time with Campbell. At one point I overheard Jack and Campbell chatting. Bearing in mind they are both 8 years old, they were chatting about their interests. Jack said to Campbell, "Yeah, I am more interested in chemistry than astronomy." I am pretty happy they were talking about the sciences, and Jack has plenty of time to realize he is really interested in astro-chemistry.

The kids showed some interest in observing through the ED80 I had set up, as well as testing the effects of shining a red-light torch down the telescope, both ways. No Noah, it does not lead to instant blindness, but I am glad you are wary of such dangers!

Unfortunately I left before Cahullian's arrival. I did manage to catch a few minutes chatting with Froggy, who seemed in good spirits for someone, like me, without a decent scope at the moment.

Look forward to seeing all of you next month. Only two months until Hubble arrives!!!!

h0ughy (David) · #37 24-09-2006, 02:57 PM

I am glad you guys had a good night.

I left the astro gear in the back of the car thinking I could sneak down after the last computer installation, which BTW was done in record time for me. I had everything done in under an hour..but as luck would have it we had a BBQ tea , that I cooked at 8pm. The skies were terrific and I knew Kulnura would have been great, if not awesome. Sorry you had cloud down there!

Well after dinner was done and the kids bathed I thought I could sneak out, and say I had a PC to fix. Then it happened, my back twinged. Not fair. SO I took a brufen and hopped it would kick in. then the next thing happened, a mob of 15 Boys came through, drunk, disorderly and destroying all they could in a swathe of destruction and reckless abandon. They dragged a very full wizbin out of a yard and placed it in the middle of a lane, where is was hit by a driver of a commodore, who then left the scene of the accident.. Glass, broken bottles garbage was strewn over the whole two lanes, impact sounded like a car hitting a power pole. It took police over 1h 50 minutes to turn up, terrible!!!!

so it was up to us locals to 1 warn the traffic of the danger, 2 clean it up. so by the time this was done it was after 11pm, too late for me to come. i was not a happy boy. but worse was still yet to happen. the group of boys came back after 12am and then started to hurl bottles and rocks on the roof of the wizz bins owner. This part was frightening as there were over 50 drunken abusive and violent people. Where were the police?? Well they came back after 5 frantic phone calls not only from me but everyone involved. Too late to witness what they did you the next door neighbours, but got to them before they did more damage. Broken signs, car panels and headlamps, wizbins and one had the hide to say he couldn't be arrested, his dads a copper

. so by 2am, Orion is sitting looking very pretty, and I was a spent force, I cursed everyone because I so wanted to image last night

. But I hope that someone got some happy snappies

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #38 24-09-2006, 03:22 PM

CLOUD ?
WHAT CLOUD ?
thanks for leaving fellas - you guessed it!

after convincing the GODS that "H" didn't really mean to buy the new sleek black 80mm rocket launcher, the heavens opened up again and we were treated to a magnificent still sky until we packed up around 4-30AM

As usual the company, humor and banter were excellent
No wonder i love these get to-gethers

THANKS GUYS

geoff

RB (Andrew) · #39 24-09-2006, 06:43 PM

It cleared, as predicted, although it was late and difficult for everyone to wait that long. The naked eye views were beautiful, all agreed that it was darker than last week. As usual the company was top notch, Gazz showed up too, great to see you again Gazz.
Geoff and Gazz kept us in stiches all night long.
David was showing me beautiful views through the 4" Celestron GOTO, fantastic.
Octane was having a ball with his new 80mm APO. Unfortunately the wind was a touch strong making imaging unsuitable.
We stuck a 22mm Naggler in the 80mm and were treated to some lovely wide fields.

All in all another great night.

Thanks everyone for your company and to Anthony for his hospitality.

ausastronomer (John Bambury) · #40 24-09-2006, 07:27 PM

Glad to hear you guys had an enjoyable night. Unfortunately, I had to attend to domestic matters to accrue brownie points for future pending astronomical excursions

CS-John B