Pony Club Christmas party

[Allan_L (Allan)]

I will try to bring something other than party pies or sausage rolls this time if you like Geoff.
Maybe frozen quiches, just for variety.
Any other suggestions?

[gmbfilter (Geoff)]

I'll bring some samosa... meat and veg !
+ wild turkey
+ have tasted some nice ciders lately bound to room somewhere

[GTB_an_Owl (Geoff)]

might pay to bring a ground sheet to-nite for under your scope

i don't think the grass will have been cut

the pie oven is back

geoff

[Allan_L (Allan)]

Originally Posted by GTB_an_Owl

the pie oven is back

geoff

Like the missing gnome mysteries ???
Did we get any post cards from Ireland or anything ?

[gmbfilter (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by GTB_an_Owl

might pay to bring a ground sheet to-nite for under your scope

i don't think the grass will have been cut

the pie oven is back

geoff

PC had a working beee last weeek weee should beee okkk

[GTB_an_Owl (Geoff)]

Thanks Geoff

geoff

[gmbfilter (Geoff)]

And thank you Geoff

[airspaceman (Andrew)]

I'll be there arround 6:30 to 7. The weather looks good
see you all there.

Cheers Andrew...

[Octane (Humayun)]

I'm in Sydney. Will be leaving for Pony Club in an hour or so.

See you boys, then.

Regards,
Humayun

[jakob]

Me too!

[bones]

Hi all
Weathers looking great for tonight. About to get ready to pack in a short while. See you all soon.
Tony

[sasup (Stacey)]

Hello all, first let me say a big thank you to the whole gang up at the pony club last night, You where all very welcoming and I had a blast. I hope H is not still up there trying to get his scope just abit closer.
Also a big thanks to the guy with the 12 inch lightbridge, ( sorry im bad with names). It was nice to be able to have a look at the scope I picked out before I put down the two grand. I should have my new toy this week and will post photos. Great night guys...

[Allan_L (Allan)]

You're very welcome SASUP.
Nice to meet you. (I have the 11 inch SCT nearest your car)
Hope to see you back there again soon.

YES.! A Great night !
I actually didn't leave until dawn.
Saturn was magnificent around 4.
And that crescent moon was breath-taking.

Then the fog came - perfect timing .

Car unpacked, now what.
Maybe some daytime Moon observing.

Maybe next week guys!
If not, a very Merry Christmas to all.

[iceman (Mike)]

I had a fantastic night - thanks for the great company amongst friends.

Such a beautiful night - pretty steady seeing, reasonably transparency, not a cloud in the sky.

A friend of mine from school, Chris, who I hadn't seen in 10+ years, came along and I think he enjoyed what he saw.

Thanks to Greg for sharing the views through his lovely 14.5" SDM.

My 40D had its first light - I haven't looked at the images yet, but everything pretty much went to plan, guiding included. The lens fogged up and I lost about 50 minutes worth of exposures, that was the only problem. But I didn't get upset about it, it's been 2 months since I've been out under the stars so I enjoyed it all the same.

Look forward to catching up again soon.

[Redshift (Phil)]

Great night last night. Thanks for welcoming the wife to the PC. Pity I had to go early - just as well the wife was there to keep me awake at the wheel on the drive home.

Thanks to Rick and Jacob for collumating my scope - that made a difference.

Thanks Tony and others for some fine views through your scopes.

And thanks to Greg for revealing the true meaning of life (37) .

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.

Phil & Vicki

[bones]

Originally Posted by Redshift

Thanks Tony and others for some fine views through your scopes.

No worries Phil, it was good to see you up there again. Hopefully Vicky had an appreciation for what a lager apeture can do for your observing.

It was good to catch up with some familar faces again, and meet some new ones. (Who who was the clean shaven bloke with the hair cut that looked like Mr Owl? )

The weather last night was pretty good. Seeing was the best I've seen up there for quite a while - very steady. Shame about the bit of dew that started to fall after 10pm some time. It was such a slow formation that I didn't really realise how much there was on the corrector plate till I took the sheild off to pack up.. In the end I was glad to get some sleep , but couldn't get enough as had to get up at 6:30 this morning. Till next time we all make it.

BTW, for those who I showed that tight globular cluster NGC2808 in between Eta carinae and tarantula neb, here's an image of it on from the web that gives it some pretty good detail. They say there's some 1.2 million stars in it.
http://www.astrosurf.com/antilhue/ngc2808.htm
Merry Christmas to all. Have a safe new year.

[GTB_an_Owl (Geoff)]

you'll cop it Bones - you'll cop it.

a great nite and roll up for our xmas party

a bit too good a nite actually
a hard decision whether to eat,drink and socialise - or sit at the scope
i tried to do a bit of both

heaps of food (that we never got to eat) thanks to all bringing a plate and gmbfilters afternoon leftovers from another function.

sorry i missed meeting you sasup - hope you come up again now you know where we are.

NOW Phill - smart move bringing the missus to look through the bigger scopes - hope it works

a Merry Xmas to all

geoff

[Rodstar (Rod)]

Thanks to Greg for allowing me to comandeer his SDM scope!

And thanks to all for the usual astronomical/gastronomical bonhomie.

Merry Christmas to all. See you in 2010!

[gb_astro]

Thanks everyone for a good night.

As Geoff says the main problem was deciding between eating and socialising or observeing.
That 37 asterism sure is weird, especially seen correctly orientated left/ right and up/down.
Thanks Rod for some of your other personal favorites.
Good to see Redshift back again and newcommer sasup.

Will not be there next week so Merry Christmas,

Greg.

[gmbfilter (Geoff)]

Seeing just kept getting better
Left Alan to close up after watching Saturn for a while...probably as good as i have ever seen it!

Even in his finder scope view was fab.