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Old 08-09-2011, 04:34 PM
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lets see , I know 18" all the way!
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Old 08-09-2011, 05:29 PM
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Woo-Hoo!!

Now for the REALLY hard decision, which scope of my six to bring...
At this stage we will be bringing 3 scopes from 3RF. A 14" SDM with Zambuto Optics, an 18" Obsession and a 25" Obsession. All 3 scopes have Argo Navis and Servocat fitted. We will be running Sky Tours with these 3 scopes on Friday and Saturday nights. If you wanted to travel light you could do so in the knowledge there will be some large aperture scopes for public sky tours.

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Old 08-09-2011, 05:59 PM
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John, you are severely tempting me to come for one of those nights...... let me study my diary a bit more closely.
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Old 08-09-2011, 06:04 PM
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That's excellent public support John - good to hear.

We were thrilled to have Peter at BSG, it was good to catch up.

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At this stage we will be bringing 3 scopes from 3RF. A 14" SDM with Zambuto Optics, an 18" Obsession and a 25" Obsession. All 3 scopes have Argo Navis and Servocat fitted. We will be running Sky Tours with these 3 scopes on Friday and Saturday nights. If you wanted to travel light you could do so in the knowledge there will be some large aperture scopes for public sky tours.

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John B
Cheers Petra d.
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Old 09-09-2011, 08:16 AM
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John, you are severely tempting me to come for one of those nights...... let me study my diary a bit more closely.
C'mon Eric, you have to come! You're a local now aren't you?
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Old 11-09-2011, 05:53 PM
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ya Eric I want to see that 12" Scope
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Old 11-09-2011, 11:15 PM
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Why should I go to all that trouble and bring my scope when lots of nice people are bringing theirs and will probably let me have a look, if I ask nicely?
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Old 12-09-2011, 06:38 AM
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Hi all

Only 1 week left to book and pay if you want to receive the $15-off "early bird" discount!

Bookings are steadily coming in, but would be great to see a rush in the next week.

The full 2011 handout with forms, policies etc is here:
IISAC2011 Handout (600k PDF).

If you've been before, you know everything anyway so you'll just need the new Acknowledgement and Disclaimer Form and the 2011 Programme of Events.

I look forward to seeing you there!
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Old 12-09-2011, 02:11 PM
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OK - Just about to book!

Question - any chance of having mains power run down to the bottom field? Happy to bring heaps of extension leads!
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Old 12-09-2011, 02:34 PM
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I guess you can try, but not real happy about it running across the road...
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Old 12-09-2011, 03:03 PM
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I guess you can try, but not real happy about it running across the road...
Yeah that's what I was thinking. How to get it across road safely?

Anyone got any ideas?
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Old 12-09-2011, 04:38 PM
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Yeah that's what I was thinking. How to get it across road safely?

Anyone got any ideas?

If its not a busy road you could maybe go over the top 4-5m's above the road.

Just a suggestion.
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I'm in, Friday and Saturday nights

Question - Any chance I can bring this with me, it only has short leads though so it will need to be in the middle of the main camp site...it's very quiet.
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Old 12-09-2011, 04:56 PM
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It looks like a monster!
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It looks like a monster!
FLI's need it mate

I was thinking this one originally ...but I'm going to leave the microwave at home and use the one in the house so I think is may be overkill, what do you recon?
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I'm in, Friday and Saturday nights

Question - Any chance I can bring this with me, it only has short leads though so it will need to be in the middle of the main camp site...it's very quiet.
mate if you can fit that in the bommadore i am sure you can do anything

will it be enough to run the FLI?
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Old 12-09-2011, 05:07 PM
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LOL Do you need a hand lifting it out of the car?
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Old 12-09-2011, 05:09 PM
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LOL Do you need a hand lifting it out of the car?
She'be mate...I've got it.

The slight ground shaking should be no probs for the visual observers and it's rythmic chugging is good for sleeping too
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Old 12-09-2011, 05:13 PM
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mate if you can fit that in the bommadore i am sure you can do anything

will it be enough to run the FLI?
Hey! You brought a similar amount of gear (you didn't even use) volume wise, last year
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Old 12-09-2011, 05:33 PM
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houghy brought some gear with him !!!!! mike you should have seen what he bought to astrofest the van was chockers...
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