how can i become a member of agwa and what benifits do i get out of it - Page 2

Enchilada · #21 07-04-2009, 05:12 AM

I wonder why the WA's have gone silent!
Give some response, please...

(or do you have a problem?)

rogerg (Roger) · #22 07-04-2009, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Enchilada

I wonder why the WA's have gone silent!
Give some response, please...

(or do you have a problem?)

Response to what, sorry .. I'm missing something?

As far as the argument of being a member of a club or not goes: I figure you never get something for nothing. With clubs you get something, but it comes at the cost, like everything else. What do you get? real life meeting with people of similar interest, sharing and pooling of physical resources such as observing sites and equipment. What are the costs? some bureaucracy and personality conflicts. I choose to be a member of a local club (ASWA) and while there's something in it for me, I'll stay

hilb · #23 07-04-2009, 05:57 PM

I've been a member of ASWA for seven very happy years and have had no issues with people having mad political aspirations or fleecing innocent members of their money.

Some people like to join clubs and some people don't, it's down to individual taste.

ASWA has four regular section meetings a month, so there is something there for all comers, lunar, deep-sky, workshops, armchair astronomy and talks from amateurs and professionals, plus an observatory under construction, an extensive loan library of books and equipment, a very busy newsgroup, regular overnight trips to seriously dark skies and two camps a year.

It's a great club with great people, and we also make visitors and guests very welcome.

ASWA has been around since 1950, so it's certainly a club that has been satisfying its members for a long time.

Cheers,
HilB...

scarper (Mart) · #24 07-04-2009, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Baddad

Hey scarper,

Apologies to TJD, this is off the subject.

Mart, I am intrigued by your name. Would it happen to be of Estonian origin or Finnish?

Why I ask is that my name is Estonian. Until the day I was born my parents had intended to call me Ants. Pronounced Unts. However, Mart Luther a thousand years ago or so, was the founder of the Lutheran Church.

I happened to be born on the anniversary of his birthday. Consequently my name is Mart. (Thankyou Mart Luther). I can't imagine what teasing I may have been subjected to if it were otherwise.

Cheers Marty

Sorry Marty my name is in fact Martin I just prefer Mart or Marty.

Glenhuon (Bill) · #25 07-04-2009, 06:19 PM

Never had much interaction with AGWA, so can't comment, but having been in the company of ASWA members in the past at camps found them to be a pretty alright bunch. Ask not what you can get from your astro club, but what you can bring to it. Even if its only a smiling face and a happy disposition.

Bill

Enchilada · #26 07-04-2009, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by hilb

It's a great club with great people, and we also make visitors and guests very welcome.
ASWA has been around since 1950, so it's certainly a club that has been satisfying its members for a long time.

... in the end and that folks is all we can expect !!
Good to positively hear the existence of another great bunch of amateur astronomers.

May your WA Society thrive for years!

Enchilada · #27 07-04-2009, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Glenhuon

Ask not what you can get from your astro club, but what you can bring to it. Even if its only a smiling face and a happy disposition.

Who could ask for anything more...

Thanks. I agree with you 110% Bill.

(Just do hope the management support such vision!)

Blue Skies (Jacquie) · #28 07-04-2009, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Glenhuon

Ask not what you can get from your astro club, but what you can bring to it. l

Too right, Bill. I learnt that one a long time ago, only it was more along the lines of "What you get out of a club is what you put into it." Works pretty well most of the time - if you don't get off your backside and join in, well, you're missing out!

TJD (Trevor) · #29 07-04-2009, 07:44 PM

Even if its only a smiling face and a happy disposition.

Bill[/quote]
if only they would except that not money

Enchilada · #30 07-04-2009, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by kinetic

I can't resist Jacquie.....judging from your Avatar, you look like
quite a dish

sorry!
Steve

Yeah, and someone to properly "Give Way" too...

Blue Skies (Jacquie) · #31 07-04-2009, 08:58 PM

Hmm, missed that comment, must have been in another thread? I've debated about putting my own mug on there, as others have done, but don't want to scare anyone else off. Besides, don't you like a bit of mystery? Anyway Rogerg and Hilb know me, so I can't be that scary.

MrB (Simon) · #32 08-04-2009, 12:04 AM

LOL, nah, you're not scary.
That dish is scary tho, always seems to be aimed right at my head!

Blue Skies (Jacquie) · #33 08-04-2009, 12:23 AM

No, it was being turned around to point at Mars and the Mars Express spacecraft when I took that.

TJD (Trevor) · #34 08-04-2009, 08:45 PM

realy

TJD (Trevor) · #35 09-04-2009, 08:57 PM

just sent off form to goin aswa thanks i wish i could send off a smily face in stead of a $53 cheque but such is life coming to observing night on the 25th

cant wait to me joining a club is to give me more experience and boost my knowledge i love to learn mainly through others mistakes not my own

seanliddelow (Sean) · #36 20-08-2009, 10:50 PM

Why did AGWA and ASWA break up. Something to do with political aspirations?

Jules76 (Julian) · #37 21-08-2009, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by seanliddelow

Why did AGWA and ASWA break up. Something to do with political aspirations?

Yes please somebody share the gossip. Should be interesting.

I'm sure this thread couldn't get any weirder. Could it?

hulloleeds · #38 21-08-2009, 11:48 AM

That's interesting. I always saw these situations as casual things. To get to the point where you're mixing enough to dislike people's personality - that is above what I actually thought could occur in something such as this.

seanliddelow (Sean) · #39 21-08-2009, 07:54 PM

Did they break up over a stars colour or something?

Blue Skies (Jacquie) · #40 21-08-2009, 09:24 PM

I think you should all stop trying to dig up the past and let sleeping dogs lie. Enough damage was done that it will still take many more years to heal and make WA the powerhouse of astronomy it should be, blessed as we are with a sympathetic climate and our important position on a global scale. There will always be differences of opinion, its part of our human nature. I wasn't involved with ASWA when the split happened, I was down with the now defunct Murdoch Astro Society, but I heard enough to know that I wouldn't get the story straight, and that would only make things worse. There are two sides to every story, and both sides think they were in the right. Best to drop it. If you hang around long enough, Sean, you may eventually hear why, but best not to make things any worse right now.