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Old 08-02-2008, 12:31 AM
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Hi Ron ,
I just walked out the back and WOW what a sky. Hope you are under it!! CU Saturday arvo.

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Old 08-02-2008, 04:21 PM
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Hi Ron,

It looks like I will not be able to make it along tomorrow night due to work commitments I am really disappointed as I was looking forward to getting up there being a newbie and all.

How often do you hold these events? maybe I can make it along to the next one.

I hope the weather holds up and the skies are as clear as last night, I forgot what the heavens look like.

Have a great evening
Steve
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Old 08-02-2008, 07:43 PM
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Is there enough dry ground for everyone Ron?

and

Can we all get over the bridge?

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Old 08-02-2008, 08:47 PM
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You can have my spot Chris. I've been offered a free desk and other furniture for my observatory and tomorrow afternoon is the most convenient time for the current owner for me to pick it up. So I'll be at Mooloolaba come sundown.
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Old 08-02-2008, 08:57 PM
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oh noes!!!!

who's gonna teach us noobs to drift align?

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Old 08-02-2008, 08:58 PM
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Am desperate to get to one of these and am hopeful I can make it tomorrow night.

There's just few little things I have to get organised to make it happen this weekend.
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Old 09-02-2008, 12:46 AM
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Hi Ron,

It looks like I will not be able to make it along tomorrow night due to work commitments I am really disappointed as I was looking forward to getting up there being a newbie and all.

How often do you hold these events? maybe I can make it along to the next one.

I hope the weather holds up and the skies are as clear as last night, I forgot what the heavens look like.

Have a great evening
Steve
Steve, we hold an Astronight every month with a Saturday closest to NEW MOON
There is a sticky at the top of this forum of how to get here.

We will also be having an Astrocamp at Barambah in March have a look at the thread in this forum
I hope we can catch up in the near future
Ron
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Old 09-02-2008, 12:49 AM
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Is there enough dry ground for everyone Ron?

and

Can we all get over the bridge?

Yes on both counts
Ron
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Old 09-02-2008, 11:48 AM
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OK. Looking good

I'll be leaving Brisbane around 1.45pm this arvo...meeting up with Gargoyle Steve at Landsborough around 3pm...and then on to Ron's!!!

Looking forward to catching up with you guys for the first time
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Old 10-02-2008, 07:32 PM
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A very enjoyable evening.

Met plenty of IISers (face to face) for the first time and enjoyed the darkest skies I've been under for a while.

Thanks to Ron for your hospitality and for sharing that good-sized scope of yours with everyone

Shame about the mossies, dew and fog/mist... But at least two of those are controllable, to some extent.

I hope I can make it up again...hopefully when Jupiter's riding high in the sky.

We might need a little separate/shielded area where the brightness of planetary imager laptops (such as mine) aren't going to impact on others?

Thanks again, Ron..and to Gargoyle Steve for the many invites to join the good folks at Cambroon.

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Old 10-02-2008, 08:23 PM
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and for those that were wondering, i got home safely, only took me 2 hours

those little ASUS eeePC's are fantastic, i picked one up today, gonna see how it goes out on the road this week, of course i need to get a large flash card or external HDD for it, to get teh best use out of it, but hey, we'll see how it goes till then
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Old 10-02-2008, 08:25 PM
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Glad you made it home safely, Josh.
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Old 10-02-2008, 08:33 PM
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thanks

i'm still running well even now, i didn't bother going to bed last night, instead i stayed up and went and watched teh sunrise from mt coot-tha. got a fantastic panorama out of it, will post it when i get back from work in a few days.
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Old 11-02-2008, 12:04 AM
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Yes it was a great night, good turnout with plenty of people and scopes!

Was great to meet you finally Matt, good to see Josh becoming such a regular, and I'm pleased we got to wish you too Randall and share that "old family recipe" birthday cake, even if it was all a couple of days early! (The cake tasted just as good - Mmmmmmm) We were all pretty amazed at your ASUS mini PC/Linux machine - especially Joshman!

All in all it there was a great mix of old friends, and new ones too!
There was also a good selection of scopes on display too: 8, 10, 12 & 16 inch Dobs, Celestron & Meade SCT's (2 of them with accompanying DMK cams), a Skywatcher ED80, and so on.

Some of the views enjoyed by various people included the classics such as M42 in Orion, the Carina Nebula, both the LMC and SMC were glowing nicely to the naked eye but looked even better under closer telescopic inspection, we did the Omega Centauri / Tuc 47 comparison, checked out the Centaurus A and Sombrero galaxies, Mars and Saturn were both prominently on display and we were seeing who could find how many Saturnian moons in their scopes, and there was a selection of meteors during the entire evening. I saw a particularly nice, dazzling white, one fragment and flare out very nicely! Some folks hadn't seen the 5th and 6th stars in the Trapezium previously so we had a bit of a look at those in detail. We checked out some favourite clusters : Jewel Box, Gem Cluster, the "Wishing Well", the Beehive (M44), etc, etc.


Good skies, good observing, good company!

The mozzies were present, but not ravenous, and seen off with a quick spray of Rid; the fog was a pain, but it was still coming and going up until 3:30 to 4am, with good patches of reasonable viewing quite late into the night. I saw a very quick glimpse of Jupiter just as it rose over the distant trees to the east, but it was swallowed almost immediately by a fog layer in that direction.

I think it was around 4am when Ron, Mike Chris and myself finally decided to pack it in and head for our respective beds / tents, etc. I think I settled into mine just after 4:30, but the damn rooster across the valley disturbed me just as I started to doze so it was after 5 with daylight showing before I dropped off again.

Three cheers and a big Thanks to you Ron as usual for your hospitality


and on a personal note thanks also for the delicious sausages and egg breakfast this morning!

Looking forward to next months new moon!

(and for those interested we'll be enjoying April's New Moon at the Barambah Dark Sky Camp.)
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