Another IIS Newbie

7thcrewmember (Brett) · #1 25-05-2010, 07:07 AM

Hi Everyone,

Finally got around to signing up to IIS. Admittedly, this is due to selling an item later in this month, but I've been a long time reader (lurker?!) of IIS, and love the passion people have here to their astronomy. My favourite section would have to be the DIY observatories (I'm a bit off doing that myself, but one day I'll be able to add to that thread).

A bit about myself. I've loved looking up ever since I was a kid, but only got involved with my local society (Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society) a few years ago. I was intending to do astroimaging, but I've put those ideas aside for the moment - I'm happy just to learn the sky at this stage - plenty of time for that later on. I've actually found I'm more interested in some of the science behind various astronomical ventures (both professional and amateur) at the moment. There's just so much to do and learn in this hobby. Anyway, at this time with a young family I'm quite prepared to learn to crawl, the walk, then run. The learning to crawl part is being done at the moment with my 10" Lightbridge. I've been using this scope the most and I'm happy to keep using it for the foreseeable future.

My IIS identity is a throw back to my early 80's childhood, and among one of the shows I liked from back then was the British sci-fi show 'Blake's 7' . The story writing was quite good, if you could get past the not-so-special effects. While the show was called Blake's 7, the promotional shots from Season 1 only featured 6 human / humanoid crew members. The 7th crew member (hence the IIS identity) was the space craft's on-board computer called 'Zen' - a non nonsense computer which looked after the human crew. The character Blake actually refers to Zen as the '7th crew member' when correcting one of his associates. In my avatar is Blake, and Zen was the 80's brown coloured, domed-wall background with the rectangular lights. So that's my long winded explanation, I hope it was worth it.

Anyway, I look forward to conversing with other IIS members here, and somewhere along the line might even meet a few of you all.

Clear skies, Brett.

supernova1965 (Warren) · #2 25-05-2010, 07:19 AM

Welcome good to have you here look foward to many interesting posts and chats

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #3 25-05-2010, 07:42 AM

Nice to meet you Brett. Welcome to IIS.

Kevnool (Kev) · #4 25-05-2010, 07:50 AM

Brett to IIS its good to have you with us.
My second scope and still is a 10" lightbridge and it resides at our Mildura unit but the 16" dont leave my sight here in Broken Hill.

Anyways keep on posting and enjoy your time here.

Cheers Kev.

Suzy · #5 25-05-2010, 03:48 PM

Welcome Brett!

I enjoyed reading your avatar origin. I often wonder where a lot of these names come from.. there are some mighty weird ones on here.

Hmm... think I could start an interesting thread on that...

Titan1 (Cameron) · #6 25-05-2010, 04:09 PM

Welcome Brett.

From one noob

to another.

Brundah1 (David) · #7 25-05-2010, 04:57 PM

Welcome Bret,

From another newbie, with a past like yours (always looking up).

Yes this is a mature and supportive community, with a dry side at times.
You are amongst a good bunch, lets help to keep IIS flying high in the sky.

I must say this is probably the best run web community I have shared. We all owe much to Iceman and Co for setting the standard of honnesty, help and friendliness.

Clear skies to you,
David

Kevnool (Kev) · #8 25-05-2010, 05:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Suzy

Welcome Brett!

I enjoyed reading your avatar origin. I often wonder where a lot of these names come from.. there are some mighty weird ones on here.

Hmm... think I could start an interesting thread on that...

Go on Suzy start er up lol.
Cheers Kev.

big_dav_2001 (Davin) · #9 25-05-2010, 05:22 PM

Hi Brett...
Welcome to IIS... Hope you find the forum as useful as i have...

Davin

renormalised (Carl) · #10 25-05-2010, 05:45 PM

Welcome to IIS, Brett

Yep, loved Blake's 7 and still do

erick (Eric) · #11 25-05-2010, 06:10 PM

Howdy 7thCM

DavidU (Dave) · #12 25-05-2010, 06:16 PM

Howdy Brett. I hope you have a lot of fun and learn from these wonderful folks.
Dave

M54 (Molly) · #13 25-05-2010, 06:59 PM

Hi Brett.
This is a great place to learn, relax, and usually have a good laugh.

RB (Andrew) · #14 25-05-2010, 07:30 PM

Welcome to IIS Brett.
You'll love it here.

Blue Skies (Jacquie) · #15 25-05-2010, 08:18 PM

Brett...Brett...I met a Brett from MPAS at the last two NACAAs. Maybe you're the same one? Welcome onboard, anyway!

michaellxv (Michael) · #16 25-05-2010, 11:33 PM

Brett,

Only last year I watched Blakes 7 again. I preferred Orac to Zen, nothing like a computer with attitude.

7thcrewmember (Brett) · #17 27-05-2010, 06:25 PM

Thanks for the well wishes everyone. And yes Blue Skies that was me. I'm already looking forward to the next NACAA in Queensland.

Blue Skies (Jacquie) · #18 27-05-2010, 07:42 PM

Excellent!

It's a small world really, I suppose... Good to see you on board!