Go Back   IceInSpace > General Astronomy > Star Parties, Club and Community Events
Register FAQ Calendar Today's Posts Search

Reply
 
Thread Tools Rate Thread
  #21  
Old 27-08-2007, 02:49 PM
cahullian's Avatar
cahullian
Hapkido = Pain

cahullian is offline
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Newcastle NSW
Posts: 1,014
Sounds good Dave if I get a chance I will be along.

Gazz
Reply With Quote
  #22  
Old 27-08-2007, 03:05 PM
joshman's Avatar
joshman (Josh)
Registered User

joshman is offline
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Coffs Harbour, Australia
Posts: 749
ok, well i'll be up at mt coottha from about 6 onwards, either on the main deck, or just down slightly on the grass, i'll be the one with a crappy tripod holding up a canon 400D!!!!

come say howdy!
Reply With Quote
  #23  
Old 27-08-2007, 04:07 PM
rowena
Registered User

rowena is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: South East Qld
Posts: 477
Ok sweet will do!! I'll hopefully be there from 6:30ish onwards!
Reply With Quote
  #24  
Old 27-08-2007, 05:11 PM
jjjnettie's Avatar
jjjnettie (Jeanette)
Registered User

jjjnettie is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Monto
Posts: 16,741
I've done my bit to arouse awareness of the event.
I printed up heaps of handouts, with reference to IceInSpace of course, and put some lunar eclipse images on disk and had them running as a slide show on the mini dvd player. Lucky Greg wasn't there because it took up a lot of counter space on the coffee cart.
LOL To every single customer I asked "How would you like your coffee and did you know there is a Lunar Eclipse on Tuesday night?" Amazingly just about everyone was interested and wanted to have a chat.
Today I went to all 3 local schools and left handouts for the teachers.
Reply With Quote
  #25  
Old 27-08-2007, 10:09 PM
middy's Avatar
middy
Registered User

middy is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 660
I'll be banging my drums and shouting loudly in the back garden to scare away the dragon.
Reply With Quote
  #26  
Old 27-08-2007, 10:16 PM
ballaratdragons's Avatar
ballaratdragons (Ken)
The 'DRAGON MAN'

ballaratdragons is offline
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: In the Dark at Snake Valley, Victoria
Posts: 14,412
Quote:
Originally Posted by jjjnettie View Post
LOL To every single customer I asked "How would you like your coffee and did you know there is a Lunar Eclipse on Tuesday night?" Amazingly just about everyone was interested and wanted to have a chat.
Today I went to all 3 local schools and left handouts for the teachers.
Onya Jeanette.

Yep, I've annoyed the whole town about it, every school kid has a flyer, and the flyers are up all around town and it has become the talking point in conversation at the General Store.

Just gotta hope the sky stays clear for the event I've organised. We have Gale force winds forecast, but wind won't block the eclipse. Only cloud will do that. I don't care if we all get blown away, as long as we can see it
Reply With Quote
  #27  
Old 28-08-2007, 06:22 AM
iceman's Avatar
iceman (Mike)
Sir Post a Lot!

iceman is offline
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Gosford, NSW, Australia
Posts: 36,799
I've been annoying everyone at work about it too.. sending them links, putting notices on the noticeboards in the kitchens

Yesterday I was actually contacted by someone I worked with 6-7 years ago.. he got an email from one of his current colleagues, who was telling him about the eclipse and linking him to the IceInSpace article. He had a look, recognised the name and sent me an email
Reply With Quote
  #28  
Old 28-08-2007, 12:38 PM
Rosemarie
Registered User

Rosemarie is offline
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Bowen Mountain, Sydney, Australia
Posts: 2
rooftop gatherings are tops (ahem)

Hey all, not sure what Iam doing here but looking at some of the gatherings posted here and wanted to let you all know that I am having one on my roof as I usually do. We dont have anything fancy just people and roof and tonight snags. This is my first day on this site but I have been gathering people together for lunar get togethers for a while now. Happy viewing and I hope you get some great shots with your equipment, look forward to seeing some.
Reply With Quote
  #29  
Old 28-08-2007, 01:38 PM
erick's Avatar
erick (Eric)
Starcatcher

erick is offline
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Gerringong
Posts: 8,548
Great Rosemarie! Hope we can see some photos of the suitably-impressed viewing party on your roof!
Reply With Quote
  #30  
Old 28-08-2007, 05:50 PM
CoombellKid
Registered User

CoombellKid is offline
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 2,590
a bitcloudyhere, moon is above the horizon but.... clouds hopefully we'll see it a bit better when it's higher.

I hope everyone else is having agood shot at it

regards,CS
Reply With Quote
  #31  
Old 28-08-2007, 10:48 PM
joshman's Avatar
joshman (Josh)
Registered User

joshman is offline
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Coffs Harbour, Australia
Posts: 749
Quote:
Originally Posted by rowena View Post
Ok sweet will do!! I'll hopefully be there from 6:30ish onwards!

and true to your word...you were!!!


good viewing tonight guys, fantastic show, thumbs up to the man upstairs for organising this event!
Reply With Quote
  #32  
Old 29-08-2007, 07:55 AM
OneOfOne's Avatar
OneOfOne (Trevor)
Meteor & fossil collector

OneOfOne is offline
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Bentleigh
Posts: 1,386
I was at the ASV public event with my C11 (and first light!). There were about 20 scopes set up, at one time my wife counted 35 people in the queue to look through mine with similar numbers at many of the other scope plus a number of people just standing around, so I would estimate we had at least 300 people there at the peak.

The early stages were clouded out, so I kept "my queue" entertained by swinging the scope around to the city and zoomed in on the Medina Hotel...couldn't see anything interesting though

Then the cloud started to lift and I swung back. Unfortunately with the XW-30 the Moon almost completely filled the view, causing some people to remark "I can't see anything" so I moved it slightly off centre to make the edge and a couple of stars visible.

I think everyone who attended had a great time and although we were there for 4 hours the time seemed to pass very quickly. The laser came in handy pointing out Jupiter, the shape of Scorpius and how to use the pointers and Crux to find south. Perry of course did a wonderful job keeping the crowd informed. If the sky had been clear from the start I think we would have had a couple of hundred more. The 20 scopes we did have was barely adequate for the number of people, even 30 would have still left very long queues!
Reply With Quote
  #33  
Old 29-08-2007, 08:37 AM
rowena
Registered User

rowena is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: South East Qld
Posts: 477
And thankgoodness for those clouds clearing to give us a view!
Reply With Quote
  #34  
Old 29-08-2007, 03:41 PM
joshman's Avatar
joshman (Josh)
Registered User

joshman is offline
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Coffs Harbour, Australia
Posts: 749
i agree!!! they cleared at the most opportune time!
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT +10. The time is now 08:28 PM.

Powered by vBulletin Version 3.8.7 | Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Advertisement
Bintel
Advertisement