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Title: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: The Thing on May 06, 2013, 07:44:13
Anyone interested?
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: Carole on May 06, 2013, 09:15:33
If the weather is going to be OK yes I'd be interested.

Carole
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: Fay on May 06, 2013, 11:50:01
you talking, today? there will be a lot of public there
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: The Thing on May 06, 2013, 13:10:10
Quote from: Fay on May 06, 2013, 11:50:01
you talking, today? there will be a lot of public there
Monday. Weekend? I think not. Friday, yes, Saturday definitely :-)
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: Fay on May 06, 2013, 13:13:41
oh next weekend
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: Carole on May 06, 2013, 13:35:29
Oh dear, I am always having this argument with my husband over "this" and next", we both see it differently and has caused some misunderstandings over the years.

Sounds like we are not the only ones.

I am talking about being interested for the weekend of 10th - 12th May though I did wonder like Fay when I first read it.

Carole
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: mickw on May 06, 2013, 15:39:38
So if I invite everyone to dinner and drinks this sunday, everyone would expect to turn up yesterday  :-?

I need a beer  :wall:

That will be this monday, today, NOW  :roll:
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: The Thing on May 06, 2013, 16:07:07
Quote from: mickw on May 06, 2013, 15:39:38
So if I invite everyone to dinner and drinks this sunday, everyone would expect to turn up yesterday  :-?

I need a beer  :wall:

That will be this monday, today, NOW  :roll:

You will have had to have had a beer by now if we all managed to turn up yesterday! :beer:
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: Fay on May 06, 2013, 16:16:44
 :lol: :lol: :lol:i went up the garden & my brain started to query if I had fully understood the question, so was glad that Carole had a doubt as well...........

because it is Bank Holiday Monday, i was thinking it was now!!
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: mickw on May 06, 2013, 16:46:03
QuoteYou will have had to have had a beer by now if we all managed to turn up yesterday!

Oh yes  ;)


Quotebecause it is Bank Holiday Monday, i was thinking it was now!!

Roy Rogers wouldn't have made that mistake  :roll:
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: The Thing on May 06, 2013, 16:54:48
Quote from: The Thing on May 06, 2013, 07:44:13
Anyone interested?

So the question still stands - does anyone want to have an unofficial deep sky camp next weekend (Friday 10-Sunday 12 May) probably at Rother Valley.

I have just come back from Normandy where there were some lovely dark nights, but I had no imaging gear so I have a hankering to get messy with mounts, USB cables and beer :)
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: julian on May 06, 2013, 21:37:21
Yes I'm interested

Julain
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: The Thing on May 06, 2013, 21:42:12
I'll check with Rother Campsite in the morning and see if there are pitches with plugs available and let you know, then it's make your own bookings...
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: Fay on May 06, 2013, 22:04:18
thinking about it
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: Carole on May 06, 2013, 23:38:48
Need some dark skies and a Zenith!!!

Carole
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: Fay on May 07, 2013, 08:59:00
Due to light nights etc, i will come down for the day. also I need a screw.

the part that goes into the back of the scope that holds the camera, i have lost the screw, probably at Kelling. if anyone has an assortment, i go go through, i would be grateful.
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: doug on May 07, 2013, 09:03:11
I am glad that you described your "screw", Fay.  I was a bit concerned .....  :o

Doug.
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: The Thing on May 07, 2013, 10:26:22
I have heard from Jackie and provisionally asked for three pitches to be reserved, if you are going please call the campsite 01797253997 or email at mail@rother-valley.com to make your booking.

See you Friday whoever is coming down!
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: Carole on May 07, 2013, 12:09:25
I have booked.

Carole
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: mickw on May 07, 2013, 14:45:23
I know it's early days but the forecast is for clouds and gusty wind  :(
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: Carole on May 07, 2013, 17:47:52
Hmmm, it's changed since the last time I looked at it.   :! :!
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: The Thing on May 07, 2013, 17:59:21
According to Meteoblue the nights will be clear and the winds will drop a bit. Any showers have low probability ('cos I'm a smelly git - thought I would get it in before you lot do!). I am optimistic.
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: mickw on May 07, 2013, 18:36:42
Quote from: The Thing on May 07, 2013, 17:59:21
According to Meteoblue the nights will be clear and the winds will drop a bit. Any showers have low probability ('cos I'm a smelly git - thought I would get it in before you lot do!). I am optimistic.

I understand "Float the Duvet" will be incorporated as an Olympic event in 2016  :lol:
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: Carole on May 09, 2013, 10:18:36
So who else is going besides me and Duncan?

Carole
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: The Thing on May 09, 2013, 11:37:36
Julian's gone all quiet...

The weather isn't looking too bad, bit breezy maybe.
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: Fay on May 09, 2013, 15:43:16
Ha Ha sorry to have made you concerned Doug, glad you read on & recovered!!!
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: julian on May 09, 2013, 17:21:08
Sorry for the late notice, but I will not be going to UDSC.

Julian
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: The Thing on May 09, 2013, 18:37:03
Well that's no fun. However all weather sites I look at regularly are showing different forecasts which include heavy rain, high winds and gusts. But there is still a chance of clear skies and the wind dropping. In the morning I will look again and decide if I'm going to chance it. 
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: Carole on May 09, 2013, 19:39:48
Yes, I am looking at the wind and weather.  Will make a decision tomorrow.

Carole
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: The Thing on May 10, 2013, 09:27:05
Tonight looks like a no go, Saturday night still looks hopeful but there are thundery showers forecast for the daytime. So I have decided it isn't worth going and putting a tent up. Maybe the weather gods will smile for us next month...
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: Fay on May 10, 2013, 09:28:35
Oh Duncan, you do try hard
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: mickw on May 10, 2013, 09:48:37
It would have been fun putting tents up in the wind  :D

If you've booked and are not going - Let Jackie know

Don't want to go through the same palaver as last year.
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: Carole on May 10, 2013, 11:08:31
I agree.
I'll E Mail Rother Valley to cancel my booking.

Carole
Title: Re: UDSC this weekend?
Post by: MarkS on May 10, 2013, 16:09:49
Nice and warm in Dordogne  8)