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26-11-2011, 12:45 PM
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Starved of Starlight...
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Sydney Australia
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I have a great view of the blue mountains from my home in Kemps creek. if the weather hopefully stays clear and my uncle is willing to drive, this will be my first ever star party.
Last edited by Vegeta; 26-11-2011 at 12:46 PM.
Reason: correcting spelling mistake
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26-11-2011, 01:07 PM
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A Friendly Nyctophiliac
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Toongabbie, NSW
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Star party? Is that what we call our group viewing sessions?
Anyway, Ibrahim, I'm sure you'll enjoy it. Lots of different telescopes and eyepieces to try. An Alex is some sort of machine at finding objects from his memory.
I have to use an IPad myself to find stuff haha!
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26-11-2011, 01:26 PM
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kids+wife+scopes=happyman
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Join Date: Jun 2008
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26-11-2011, 01:42 PM
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Starved of Starlight...
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Sydney Australia
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Thanks for all the support guys, i really do hope the weather stays clear, Alexander, can you please leave me an email on the weather (just in case it changes and the event will have to be postponed) at around 5 p.m.
Send to: thejahash@hotmail.com
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26-11-2011, 04:17 PM
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kids+wife+scopes=happyman
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Looking good. Just spoke with Rod, some high cloud and clearing. Westerly wind direction - no dew.
Things for me have changed in the last couple of hours. Something has come up and I wouldn't be until 9pm that I'd be able to leave home. Bugger! Bugger! Bugger!
Peter will be sourcing the manager's brew.
Oh how good it is looking for you lot,  . I've had my observing/sketching plan ready since yesterday... Bugger.
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26-11-2011, 04:24 PM
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Resident Rigel fanboy
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Im already in blue mountains unfortunately im scopeless tonight. Is anyone going to be there and when so I can drive and join them. Dont want to be first in loner...
Alex what time is Peter coming in?
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26-11-2011, 04:31 PM
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kids+wife+scopes=happyman
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Manav,
Peter said he'd be leaving soon from home. He's looking to be there between 7 and 7:30.
Scopeless shouldn't be a problem. I'm sure there'd be a pair of binos to spend some time with too.
Next time for me, again...
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26-11-2011, 05:40 PM
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A Friendly Nyctophiliac
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Toongabbie, NSW
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I'll be there between 7:30 to 8pm.
A shame you cant come Alex. if you leave at 9PM you will getthere what 10:30? still a lot of time for viewing, it wont really get dark till about 9 pm anyway.
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26-11-2011, 08:20 PM
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Resident Rigel fanboy
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I think im the first one here :-)
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26-11-2011, 11:00 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Adelaide, Australia
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Wishing you all a very clear night!
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26-11-2011, 11:55 PM
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A Friendly Nyctophiliac
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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Well I turned up. It was just me and Yugant for about 30 min. Then it was just me. Clouded over till at about 10:30 though.
Up to that point though it was great. Gave my 9mm a proper test. Subsequently I've discovered it is completely parafocal with my 30mm.
Found the usual stuff looking great in the large and small M-Clouds. Orion Neb. of course looks stunning (even if it was hovering in the Sydney light dome to the east). Especially when I gave my new Baader Planetarium UHC-S filter a whirl. I've never seen so much nebulosity from my telescope than tonight. Tarantula Neb. looked great too, but, I also noticed alot more nebulosity around the Large M-Cloud too.
With the bright stuff out of the way I went hunting for a few objects I had been hoping to see. The fornax galaxy cluster was one of them. In the 30 mm I spotted 9 galaxies in a single field of view.
I spotted NGC 1365. I could see hints of its two spiral arms. Also spotted Fornax A as well as NGC 1317 easily beside it.
Clouds were rolling in at this point. So I quickly swung the scope to Cetus and had a browse through the galaxies I could find there. Cetus A was most prominent. The clouds rolled in fast by this point, even sprinkled a little.
I wish I had more people and scopes to share the session with though 
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27-11-2011, 09:37 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Dulwich Hill, Australia
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Hi Guys,
I couldn't make it last night either.
Alex, any chance of trying again next Weekend?
James
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27-11-2011, 09:41 PM
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kids+wife+scopes=happyman
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Join Date: Jun 2008
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I'll see what can be done.
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28-11-2011, 09:36 AM
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kids+wife+scopes=happyman
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Blue Mountains- Katoomba Airfield Dec. 3rd
Anyone else keen on this coming Saturday 3rd of Dec. before I make the call?
I've changed this thread's title rather than start a new one & to highlight the change of date.
Last edited by mental4astro; 28-11-2011 at 09:48 AM.
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28-11-2011, 06:07 PM
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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Since uni is over for the year, I really want to get back out with my scope. Hope weather is great for Saturday.
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29-11-2011, 11:09 AM
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kids+wife+scopes=happyman
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: sydney, australia
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Rod's given the ok for this Saturday,  . Fingers crossed the sky's a good one again.
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30-11-2011, 11:15 AM
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Starved of Starlight...
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Sydney Australia
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I'm depending on my uncle to drive. I hope the weather is great and he's able to drive.
Clear skies
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30-11-2011, 12:15 PM
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kids+wife+scopes=happyman
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Join Date: Jun 2008
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I've managed a screen shot of the Airfield showing the entrance, the access route to the set up area, and the location of the set up slab:
The pic also shows the various hangers and other buildings on site. As you can see, parking isn't a problem here  !
I hope this helps.
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02-12-2011, 09:17 PM
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A Friendly Nyctophiliac
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Good job with the picture. Keep that for future meets. just note to all new comers. It doesn't look anything like that in the dark 
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02-12-2011, 10:32 PM
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Registered User
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Location: Sydney
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I can't make it this date, which figures  as the forecast is quite good.
Cheers
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