Company definitely does help a lot, others help keep YOU awake, visa versa. I haven't ever tried it with alcohol, after a bottle I may not be able to stand too straight. So I need to take a seat and then nod off for the night
For keeping awake I cannot think of anything better than visual in summer with a bajillion mozzies buzzing around your ears!
Company definitely does help a lot, others help keep YOU awake, visa versa. I haven't ever tried it with alcohol, after a bottle I may not be able to stand too straight. So I need to take a seat and then nod off for the night
For keeping awake I cannot think of anything better than visual in summer with a bajillion mozzies buzzing around your ears!
The mozzies have me running for the hills. No amount of Aeroguard can keep those suckers away.
Listen: ABC or RN on the radio
Drink: Beer, Coffee, Whisky (in that order over the night)
Eat: KFC drive through on the way out, Pringles with the beer, bowls of instant noodles (the good asian brands) with cans of chilly salmon mixed through at midnight.
No problem staying up all night, been doing it for years...as long as I don't have to work the next day...although I have even done that a few times (pretty hard though)
Setting up the 12" dob and enjoying some visual observations throughout the night is great fun too and makes the night more interesting too.
Mike
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Sounds like you're up all night watering the local trees Mike
I have to keep away from the KFC as it makes me feel sick, along with Maccas and any of those other fast foods! Noodles though, delicious!
1.50 am right now 20" in my backyard on Mars and Saturn near Zenith and just superb in a 4.7 Ethos, mirror is cooled to perfection I think. When you can see nodus alcyonius like an apostrophe it's worth staying up.
1.50 am right now 20" in my backyard on Mars and Saturn near Zenith and just superb in a 4.7 Ethos, mirror is cooled to perfection I think. When you can see nodus alcyonius like an apostrophe it's worth staying up.
I'm really fangin' for some KFC right now though
You west Australians have hot 'n spicy all year round. I thought discrimination was illegal in this country
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Explains the greasy hi-vis aura in the pic...optics and junk food are a recipe for disaster
KFC being the world's most effective laxative, I would hope there is a crapper (a flushing one) within 5 seconds walking distance
I like my wicked wings drizzled in Tabasco sauce. If I haven't had it for a while, I will just about pass out from the pleasure.
Luckily here in Renmark the KFC is exceptional. The wicked wings are always so big and crunchy, so epic unlike the lottery I had to deal with back at my old local.
It eases the trauma of not having hot n spicy year round.
Haven't been to a Maccas, KFC or any other derivation since 2005. And that was only because it was the only thing we recognised before we flew out of LA. And they tried to upsize us !!
All their food is reprocessed styrofoam and cardboard.
Food should never come in a bucket ....
... I have to keep away from the KFC as it makes me feel sick, along with Maccas and any of those other fast foods! Noodles though, delicious!
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Haven't been to a Maccas, KFC or any other derivation since 2005. .... All their food is reprocessed styrofoam and cardboard.
Food should never come in a bucket ....
+1, +1, +100.
I think my last encounter with Maccas was about a decade ago when I was faced with the option or Maccas or nothing. "Nothing" would have tasted better and left my stomach in a healthier state. I can't understand how something so vanishingly small can leave such a lump in your gut for so long.
Keeping my body and feet warm has been the big challenge whenever I venture out on a star camp or even at home on my concrete deck...
My back and neck (probably age) starts to ache especially with a cold hard ground surface and I am cold in general.
Hopefully some of my problems will be eased with my new acquisition below
from Geoff (Freezer Suit) Anybody know of good quality footware to complete keeping the cold out
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Keeping my body and feet warm has been the big challenge whenever I venture out on a star camp or even at home on my concrete deck...
My back and neck (probably age) starts to ache especially with a cold hard ground surface and I am cold in general.
Hopefully some of my problems will be eased with my new acquisition below
from Geoff (Freezer Suit) Anybody know of good quality footware to complete keeping the cold out
I watched last years solar eclipse from Svalbard, 78 deg north latitude, -23 C temperature. I also spent several nights out under the stars in North Norway near Trømso watching aurora at -10C - -15C.
I purchased one of Geoff's Hepworth Freezer suits and Neos explorer overboots from the USA.
I purchased the over boots and 10mm thick inner soles for extra insulation. You wear your own boots inside these overboots. Standing on cold ice for 3 hrs at -23C while watching the eclipse and standing on ice and in snow near Trømso for 5 hrs during the night at ~ -12C watching Aurora, my feet always felt quite warm. The overboots are about USD120. They don't sell internationally so you have to buy via a secondary reseller and they cost me a bit over AUD220 delivered here in Australia. They are overkill for Aussie conditions but if you want warm feet, they are really warm.
...optics and junk food are a recipe for disaster 
