appreciation

[Joe Schomer]

I am fascinated with APOD and saw the incredible video of the moons of Jupiter. I was compelled to contact you. My first reaction was that it was a Hubble shot, from the gorgeous clarity of the seeing. I own a Celestron 8, and the 'seeing' here is abominable. I hardly ever use it. The seeing in NSW must be second only to outer space! (compared to suburban NYC)

ALSO---COMET McNAUGHT!!!---you lucky so and so's!! The cometary apparition of a lifetime! Hale-Bopp was a thrill in the dark skies of the country side here. I demanded an encore. It was your turn!

Mike Salway and his cute little crew are my kind of humans. If I ever get off my duff and fly 10,000 mile to Australia, I'll look you guys up (I'll bring the Dobro). 11 hours in a jet is daunting!

PS--the website presentation is beautiful!

[erick (Eric)]

Joe! Don't go away, stay around and let's hear a lot more from you. I can only agree - I discovered IIS late last year and am loving it here.

Yep, Mike S has taken the occasional good little photo .

11hr is nothing. Aussies regularly do 20 hr plus in two legs from the SE coast to Europe! Try it. We'll have the welcome mat out for you.

Eric

ps. Australia has innumerable dark sky locations - a world light pollution map shows this, especially relative to North America and Europe!

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

and Joe. C'mon down. You know you want to

[acropolite (Phil)]

Greetings Joe, better book that ticket to OZ right away, you'll never regret it.

[astro_nutt]

Good to hear from you Joe!..Welcome to IIS!