do you think when the iceman comes home from sorting out Hutchinson customer service complaints, jumps onto the forum, looks at this thread and then thinks "what have they done now???"
as most of are parents, it is like coming home and your child has decided to flush everything down the toilet. Do you laugh or cry.
I suppose there are other forums where you can get a similiar spread of expertise, but whilst these type of threads are done to accompany the serious ones, i could not even think of going over to another forum!!!
Great one Ken!
No doubt, we will all be a little shy at snake valley to start with, but ( i do not think ken drinks ) after a few drinks, i got the feeling, it will be a really fun time!
after a few drinks, i got the feeling, it will be a really fun time!
I find that after I've had a few, seeing and transparency always decrease dramatically! Alcohol and astronomy don't get along too well... I'm not really trying to be funny here either; speaking from experience.
No doubt, we will all be a little shy at snake valley to start with, but ( i do not think ken drinks ) after a few drinks, i got the feeling, it will be a really fun time!
I don't think there will be to many shy people as there personalities are here in this thread i don't need any drinks to be a bit wacky, i'm like this at most times i think i'm going to turn up in my "WARNING WARNING WILL ROBINSON DANGER DANGER" outfit
Peter, if you do turn up in that, forget grog stuffing up your viewing, tears and your gut muscles aching from laughter will stuff up any well focussed scope!!!!
Hey, even if it is raining, and all of the super planning ken (& mike) have done ie saturn taking time out of her busy schedule to be the stripper on the night, is wasted, these extra scheduled activities will keep up the laugther and silly giggling will keep us entertained
I haven't spoken to John my co-organiser yet about this but I'm sure he will agree . . .
I will be offering a FREE mirror ID engraving service. Security marking! I can engrave your name or Code number or whatever you like right onto the mirror surface.
No-one will steal your scope if they look down the OTA and see the mirror is security marked with big numbers.
I could even do a bit of engraved decoration around the Centre Spot for a fee
How about ride the GOTO SCT contest, we all jump onto a SCT and whizz around till we fall off (might work better with the SCT filled with Alcohol) The last one still on his/her SCT is the winner.
Great idea Andrew!!! and if they still don't fall of at the end, we'll stick their hand controller in a bucket of water and watch the SCT really go Berserk
It is a wonderful mix of aussie dry humour and very deep understandings of astronomy and equipment plus a generous dollup of willingness to help the noobies out!
Well, not all aussie! And not all deep
Dunno why I didn't think of this one before:
Sword fighting with 90mm F/15 apos!
We could even recreate the final battle in LOTR:ROTK using 125mm Maks as troll clubs.
Are there any big ugly Kiwis here that could play a troll (cough, Rob, cough).
I might be able to hire one of those Hollywood style Search-lights (you know the ones with a Gazillion candle power) so we can point it at the Moon and stuff and light them up so they will be easier to see!
All you need is an sct, and a fistfull of magnesium ribbon stuffed into the visual back, light her up and hey presto !
As kids we used to get in large tyres and go for a roll down hills, at the camp we could put the kids(3 or 4 at a time) in Ken's OTA and see how they go.
I'm not really trying to be funny here either; speaking from experience.
i don't need any drinks to be a bit wacky, i'm like this at most times 
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