Who's all going from IIS to Astrofest

[earthlight (Anne-Louise)]

We'll be there alllllll weeeeeekkk! of course.

Only missed two so far. The 1st one as I didn't know about it and in 2002 I was real sick.

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earthlight

[acropolite (Phil)]

I'll be there Thursday, would have liked the whole week but I have family on board....

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Jump on the train and hop up to Nambour Phil. You can come out with me and the family can catchup later in the week.................yeah right

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

I'll keep some sticky date pudding for you

[CoombellKid]

Have a great week guy's, see ya's next year lol

regards,CS

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by [1ponders]

I'll keep some sticky date pudding for you

I'm allergic to it Phil so don't bring any back with you on the way home.

[Zubenel (Wes)]

Hi all ,
Looks like I will bring the clouds on Thursday Late arvo if the forcast is correct.. But you will have a great time early in the week!!!

Cheers Wes

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I'll be arriving Friday morning, going home Sunday morning.

If you are travelling from Brisbane last chance for supplies is at Kilcoy Super IGA.
There is also an Auto Spares store on the right as you come into town, it has a large variety of camping gear. I think they also stock 12volt hair dryers.
Retravision for your rechargable batteries and memory cards.

If you are coming via Ipswich, last stop for food and limited camping supplies is at Toogoolawah IGA and CO OP.

[allan gould]

i'LL BE THERE Wednesday morning til Sunday

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Cheers thank Jeanette!

[iceman (Mike)]

Have a great time, guys! I look forward to reading the reports and seeing the images when you (and I) get back!

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

25 min and counting

[AstroTourist (Terry)]

I'll be there Mon - Sun.
See you there.
Rgds,
Terry

[xstream (John)]

Originally Posted by [1ponders]

I'll keep some sticky date pudding for you

I never new Phil was partial to Sticky Date!

Have a great time all.

[dhumpie]

Will be there bright and early on Sat for the swap meet Bringing a friend up with me and my new astrotoy, the Orion StarBlast all the way from Watsonville, CA on my recent trip to the states See you all there...

Darren aka dhumpie

p/s: 10" won't be making the trip but my C6 will

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Well, it was an absolute CRACKER!!!!! We had a hoot!

A more fullsome report will follow. Once I catch up on some sleep.

[CoombellKid]

Great to hear Paul, look forward to reading all the reports on what I missed
out on this year, plus pictures! pictures! pictures!!!!

The jet stream appeared to be pretty much non-exsitant through most of the
week.

regards,CS

[AstroJunk (Jonathan)]

Fun was had by all, and I had really enjoyed meeting up with the spacers in big dob corner (where my 'tiny 20' was dwarfed by Peter's magnificent 30!)

You haven't lived unless you have seen the veil in a 30, that's all I can say

[IanL]

What a time at QLD astrofest. I stayed Thursday to Sunday. Gees i now wish i went the full week. WHAT A TIME I now know why it was in the top ten star parties in sky at night. I will post more words what i get time in front of the PC.

No i got to say it

Organization of the event was first class.
Accommodation was great.
Food provided by camp managers superb
Facilities were excellent.
Fellow amateur astronomer’s friendly warm welcoming people who I had great pleasure in meeting and talking too.
And the classes during the day were very informative and interesting.
The wife won the female counter weight throwing competition
Dennis Simmons won the catch the counter weight competition.
And to top it off the wife won an IIS beanie.

Ian Law

[dhumpie]

It was great...and I won something at the raffle this year which was nice...two issues of BBC's the sky at night

Darren