how far would you travel just to see something?

[Octane (Humayun)]

All,

Canberra to Coonabarabran.

Well, it was unintentional, but, we experienced the Orionids at their peak.

Regards,
Humayun

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by wavelandscott

Hard question...right up there with my other hard questions...

How deep is a hole?
How long is a piece of rope?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Seriously I reckon it is worth a bit of effort for something that you enjoy and get satisfaction from...4 hours or so is not really that much in the big scheme of things...

Heck, in spite of likley poor weather I'm still going to get the boys up early and drag them down to the Sydney Observatory...even if we can't see the transit there will at least be coffee and donuts (or muffins)...

and an interesting story for them to tell about what a nut their good' ol Dad is!

yes friendship...........but i want clear skies too

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

i travelled to lithgow for the venus transit
probably will do something equally silly tomorrow

[glenc (Glen)]

I went to Hawaii in 1991 for an eclipse, it was cloudy.

Went to Turkey for the eclipse this year and it was clear.

[mickoking]

Originally Posted by spacezebra

China 2009 solar eclipse.

Cheers Petra

See ya there

[h0ughy (David)]

OK I only went 13km LOL

[rowena]

36hr of flights one way....., Rockhampton to brisbane to sydney to los angelos to atlanta to Orlando, plus 1 hr car drive just to watch the Space shuttle! Thats one way, with 4 sunset/sunrises in that 36hr period! Way back was quicker but more flights! lol

And guess what! I will do it all over again!! Maybe next year in June!
see what happens!

Otherwise sydney to ceduna, south australia (via flights) was the furtherst ive travelled for astronomical!

[astroron (Ron)]

I cought a lift in a Semi frrom North Carolina to Florida to see the Space Shuttle take off and it was cancelled 2 hours befor lift off

[Gargoyle_Steve (Steve)]

I'm planning on the eclipse at Easter Island in 2010 ...... a VERY cool place to see an eclipse I reckon, one could almost say "unique", or at least it's a "once in a lifetime" opportunity, with near 5 minutes of totality ..... and it just HAPPENS to occurr on my birthday!

[glenc (Glen)]

I am planning to go to Easter Is too on 11/7/2010.
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~jander/...tse10intro.htm

[Gargoyle_Steve (Steve)]

Glen may I ask are you arranging your trip through one of the specialist tour groups? I'd be interested to know who you may be planning to go with, or what details you may have at hand, as I hear it's already stating to book out with some operators.

Cheers .....
Steve

[glenc (Glen)]

We will be independent travellers.
Might buy a 4 Continents round the world ticket with One World.
There are a total of 4 flights allowed within each Continent except North America, where there are 6 flights allowed.

[sheeny (Al)]

What a question, hOughy!

I'd travel a lot further to see something than I would to not see it!!!

Unless I'm just going to do some lunar imaging (because the moon is up) I routinely drive about 22ks each way to get to my viewing site (dark). Really I suppose I'm getting away from the street lights over my yard and the lights of the town and factories...

It depends too on what's important, what you are seeing or the journey? I've travelled 350ks each way in the one day to have a look at the Parkes Radio Telescope, but it was the cruising country roads on the BM that was the important bit...

I should've travelled just 50 or so ks to Bathurst the other day for the Mercury Transit but I didn't know it was clear there did I? 20/20 hindsight... don't you love it? If I could've known that 100ks away would definitely be clear and here wasn't, I would go... trouble is that element of uncertainty!

Al.