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To all those who celebrate the upcoming festive season have a wonderful time and take care, for all those you dont' celebrate christmas also have a wonderful time and take care. hopefully the new year will bring much in the way of clear skies and extraterrestial activity. Your thoughts from downunde...

Just a reminder to our astronomical family up north. Don't forget to keep your eyes open for the Skytopia 2008 that is being organised for march 2008 at Mt Macedon ( north of Melbourne) particularly those of you who travel the world in search of new ones. The weekend is the 6-9 march 2008 and more i...

Hi Orion Last week i was given a Meade mySky as a Birthday present from the family. I am very impressed with it. It appears to have a stack more info than the celestron skyscout. Before settling on one or the other do some comparison homework as they are both a similar price. Also with the addition ...

Just a little update to my email from a few months ago. Skytopia 2008 looks like it is going ahead for the 6th to the 10th of March 2008 in Victoria, Australia. It is going to be in the Mount Macedon area where there is an observatory nearby. At this stage my wife and I and our LXD75 8"SN will ...

Hi All Keep your eyes open. Have heard that a mega event is being arranged for Mount Macedon Observatory over the 6th-10th March 2008. The site is about 1-2 hrs drive out of melbourne and at this stage I will be doing the 1000km (about 12hour drive) trip down from my home to attend. The details are ...

Thankyou for your replies.

I think that I may totally discard the thought of doing anything heroic with the camera and let if collect dust in the box where it is.

One day in the future somebody may need a paperweight of it's exact dimensions

Astro Arthur

I have an old sony mavica that takes the 3.5inch floppy disc. The camera has no resale value and i am considering sacrificing it and stripping out ccd chip etc. for use as an autoguider camera. does anybody have any ideas for circuit diagrams etc or do you think i am wasting my time and a reasonsble...

I trust the rest of your trip through the blue mountains went well,

Is this the best venue to chat through or should I be going to another venue ??

I posted a photo of the comet with it's tail on the album site.

Say hello to the others from me if you catch up with them.

catch you soon

arthur

I have got a photograph of the comet taken with 400mm lens on Olympus OM-1 film camera taken just at sunset from the AstroCamp where we all were but I don't know if i could put it on the Website or if I would be allowed, I would have to scan it in.

Astro Arthur

My name is Arthur and my wife Debbie and I had the privilege of meeting and chatting with four SINGASTRO members at the Lostock AstroCamp in the hunter Valley in New South Wales over the Weekend of the 18th Jan 2007. (It was a very hot weekend with the temperature during the day at 40 degrees Celciu...