Anyone Going to Vic South Star Party on 4 Nov

[Dave47tuc (David)]

Great to see all had a good time at the VicSouth Star Party.

[cventer]

I am pleased Snake Valley is on again, but did you notice that VicSouth 2006 is and has been booked for 10 - 13th November for some time now.

This means once again you will limit the number of attendees who would go to both.

With so few star parties happening in Australia I dont undrstand why it seems so hard to co ordinate times that they dont clash with eachother. This same clash has happened with ASV Star party and South pacific Star party more than once.

Come on guys talk to eachother and give us all the best opportunity to go to as many of these as possible.....

Perhaps a state wide calendar lisitng of all parties is in order so gaps in this can be used for any new ones...

How about changing the date to October some time so more of us can attend ????

Best Regards
Chris

Originally Posted by iceman

Even 1 week apart again, though not a clash, is too much for most people (especially those that need a leave pass from SWMBO).

Sounds like a great event at VicSouth, look forward to seeing the writeup in the next S&S.

[janoskiss (Steve H)]

So who's going to change their star party dates to better suit the other party?

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

It would be a nice idea. Unfortunately there are only 13 new moons a year and not all of them fall on a weekend or a holiday period. Maybe the needs to be a few amalgamations as was done with the Qld Astrofest. There are 6? societies I believe associated with that. Do many of the other AA societies do a similar thing? I've not been to any others so I don't know. SPSP does, doesn't it?

Just throwing round some ideas.

[cventer]

Vic South is an amalgamation of ASV and ASSA and has been running for 3 years now so it being the one with larger roots should not have to change dates. They have had the Date for 2006 on the Vicsouth website for over 2 months allready....

I think Snake Valley Stary Party sounds great and would love to attend but some serious thought needs to be given to moving the dates before it becomes an established party with established clashing dates.....

Why not pick a dark weekend in September or October. Its a quiet month for most and has no parties clashing....

Regards
Chris

[janoskiss (Steve H)]

Originally Posted by cventer

Why not pick a dark weekend in September or October. Its a quiet month for most and has no parties clashing....

Might be too cold, and chance of clear skies is less closer to winter. If it was to change, I'd say make it a summer party, say in January or February. And that would mean that we'd have to have the 2006 camp a few months from now.

[jdb]

winter = longer time under the night sky
winter = better seeing
winter = hot chocolate
winter = winter constellations

now, waiting for the 'winter =' retorts...

[iceman (Mike)]

winter generally has less rainfall than summer.. especially up this way.

The winter milky way is a spectacular thing. I reckon it's the best time for a star party, apart from the cold!

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by jdb

now, waiting for the 'winter =' retorts...

winter in Ballarat = fog .
Ken will correct me if Im wrong.

I like Steves idea and make it a summer or autumn event.