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24-12-2006, 12:32 AM
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Cyberdemon
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Rubyvale QLD
Posts: 2,627
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Originally Posted by 33South
Mike, I wonder if Anthony can expand his talk to cover "high energy particle strikes on ccds"  |
Ho Ho Ho very funny :-)
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24-12-2006, 07:27 AM
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Sir Post a Lot!
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Gosford, NSW, Australia
Posts: 36,799
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Originally Posted by Deeno
Hi Mike
Just booked in for the thurs, fri nights. Just wondering if I could drop the cash in to your place.
Cheers
Deeno
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No problems Dean. PM me for my mobile # and we can arrange it. However it won't be until the new year. btw, your booking had an invalid email address so you won't have received your confirmation email. PM me with your proper email address and i'll forward it to you.
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Originally Posted by bird
Mike, I guess we'll have the deep-sky imagers in a different part of the field to the planetary imagers? The planetary people tend to have laptops and create a fair bit of light pollution...
cheers, Bird
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From the DSO imaging i've seen at SPSP, their laptops create quite a bit of light pollution too. Depends if they're DSLR imagers or CCD imagers 
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Originally Posted by bird
Ho Ho Ho very funny :-)
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lol nice one Chris
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24-12-2006, 04:20 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Posts: 4,116
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Looking fowards to it. I will be coming up with Photoncollector (Paul) on the friday, leaving Newcastle just after lunchtime.
Scott
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30-12-2006, 01:52 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: NEWCASTLE NSW Australia
Posts: 33,378
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only 18 sleeps to go.
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01-01-2007, 04:21 PM
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Sir Post a Lot!
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Gosford, NSW, Australia
Posts: 36,799
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The proper co-ordinates for Lostock scout camp are:
Lat: 32° 18.875 S
Long: 151° 25.476 E
Not long now!
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03-01-2007, 06:53 AM
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Sir Post a Lot!
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Gosford, NSW, Australia
Posts: 36,799
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Bookings are still growing - great to see!
111 people are booked so far, with more to come in the next 2 weeks!
For a full list of those booked, check this post.
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04-01-2007, 07:47 AM
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Sir Post a Lot!
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Gosford, NSW, Australia
Posts: 36,799
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What's in the Sky at Lostock?
For a list of observing suggestions, broken down into hourly chunks from sundown to sunrise, you can download and print the IISAC2007 Observing Suggestions sheet. It's a 200k PDF.
IISAC2007 Observing Suggestions
It will be added to the IISAC2007 info page hopefully today or tomorrow.
btw we've cracked 120!
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04-01-2007, 10:47 PM
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1300 THESKY
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Cairns Qld
Posts: 2,405
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After some thought, I have taken the plunge 
Flights are booked, Registration in, I'm there 
I look forward to catching up with many of "The IIS Family" who I have come to know here over the past 18mths 
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04-01-2007, 11:18 PM
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Moderator
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: NEWCASTLE NSW Australia
Posts: 33,378
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wooo hooo, pleanty of scopes to look through too mate!
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04-01-2007, 11:29 PM
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1300 THESKY
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Cairns Qld
Posts: 2,405
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I sure am looking forward to that Houghy
I will bring my little Rich Field Astroscan for the ride & a few of my Favourite Eyepieces too !
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05-01-2007, 07:52 AM
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Sir Post a Lot!
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Gosford, NSW, Australia
Posts: 36,799
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Excellent Ian! Can't wait to meet you!
Another busy day of bookings, we're now at:
127 bookings!
Made up of:
- 113 adults
- 14 children
- #ppl on Thursday: 87
- #ppl on Friday: 115
- #ppl on Saturday: 111
Looking great people! Keep the bookings coming! I need to give final catering numbers by next week so would prefer as many "late" bookings as possible to be done by then.
New Door Prize!
Remus (RayOfLight) and his Singapore friends have kindly "sponsored" a BRAND NEW KK WIDESCAN (Generation III) 13mm (84-AFOV!) 1.25" eyepiece (Valued at about AUD$220)!
Many thanks to Remus and his friends for their generous gift! I'll update the info on the IISAC info page sometime today or on Monday.
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05-01-2007, 12:11 PM
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Sir Post a Lot!
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Gosford, NSW, Australia
Posts: 36,799
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New Sponsor!
Astronomy Online are sponsoring a pair of Optex 20x80 Giant Binoculars as a lucky door prize!
They are also attending as a vendor for the Friday and Saturday morning vendor stalls/swap meet. The list of vendors attending with product to sell, is on the IISAC2007 info page.
Thanks to Aidan and the guys at Astronomy Online for the late addition to the prize pool!
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05-01-2007, 12:33 PM
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Moderator
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: NEWCASTLE NSW Australia
Posts: 33,378
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Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
New Sponsor!
Astronomy Online are sponsoring a pair of Optex 20x80 Giant Binoculars as a lucky door prize!
They are also attending as a vendor for the Friday and Saturday morning vendor stalls/swap meet. The list of vendors attending with product to sell, is on the IISAC2007 info page.
Thanks to Aidan and the guys at Astronomy Online for the late addition to the prize pool!
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Gee we are getting quite a prize pool, under 130 people thus far almost makes it a 1 in 10 chance of getting something at ISSAC . The sponsors for the prizes deserve a big 
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05-01-2007, 01:46 PM
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Sir Post a Lot!
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Gosford, NSW, Australia
Posts: 36,799
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Some of the prizes are multiples - for example, the david malin images, the CopyToDVD software, the AS&T prize pack, so there's a better than 1 in 10 chance of getting something!
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05-01-2007, 10:53 PM
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Obsessed
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Swansea N.S.W.
Posts: 1,107
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It certaily shaping up to be a great AstroCamp!  
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06-01-2007, 03:31 AM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 61
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Hi all,
This might be a silly question, but what time does the sun rise in Lostock?
:p
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06-01-2007, 08:12 AM
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Sir Post a Lot!
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Gosford, NSW, Australia
Posts: 36,799
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It'll be about 6am, Remus, with the sun setting around about 8:30pm. It'll go over the mountain before then but it won't be truly darker until 9pm or so.
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06-01-2007, 08:13 AM
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Obsessed
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Swansea N.S.W.
Posts: 1,107
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RayOfLight
Hi all,
This might be a silly question, but what time does the sun rise in Lostock?
:p
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At the moment sunrise is around 5:51am. Day light saving time.
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06-01-2007, 09:30 AM
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Moderator
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: NEWCASTLE NSW Australia
Posts: 33,378
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dont forget astronomical twilight
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06-01-2007, 02:05 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Mt. Kuring-Gai
Posts: 5,999
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With less than two weeks to go to Lostock, fingers are crossed that we
will get the same type of beautiful weather as we have had here in Sydney the
last couple of days.
I justed wanted to say how wonderful it was to see some attendees coming
from interstate and in the case of Remus and his colleagues, overseas from
Singapore. Well done! 
I was wondering in particular if Ian from the Gove Amateur Astronomers
and Remus would consider giving a couple of short presentations during the
day on the amateur astronomy scene in the Top End of Australia and
in Singapore respectively? Mike, would there be any time available in the
agenda? I am sure many of us would love to hear about the amateur scene
in these parts of the world, even if presented in an informal way for just a few
minutes (Now that you are coming, I wouldn't want to put you guys under
pressure ).
In any case, we are looking foward to meeting you there!
Best regards
Gary Kopff
Mt. Kuring-Gai NSW
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