Deep Sky Camp - Fri 22nd to Mon 25th May

[Fay]

 

[mickw]

Blame Fay for this...

*Forgot to mention - Pics by me and Mike*

Jeff - To beer or not to beer, that is the question.


Miriam - Jeff, stop thinking about beer


Mike - Don't touch my beer


Mike - He nicked my beer



Chris - I'm going for it tonight - Big time


Tony - Did you touch my car ?


Jim - But everyone balances eggs on top of tea bags and bacon don't they ?


Mark - I'm going to poison them all with my weird French booze


Dave - I wish I'd tought of that


Ken - Suckers - This is DSC and you always get poisoned


Mick - I have no idea of who I am or how I got here


Fay - Nobody knows how much booze is stached in my tent


Liz - Please get me out of here safely


Ian - How can I make red wine, beer and Marks weird French booze go bang


Chris - Nap time


Various cool pics taken by Mike of some sky divers - they have been severely cropped so that images are more than just dots.
For the anoraks - My Sony Alpha 100, ridiculously heavy Konica Minolta 400mm courtesy of  Duncan

[Ian]

that'll be Miriam Mick...

Still not quite got worked out how to make that lot go bang, but I'm thinking still...

[mickw]

Thanks Ian
Done and done 

Would Cuban rum help ?

[MarkS]

Mick,

Those are excellent close up shots and I love your wicked sense of humour in the comments!
Mark

[Fay]

Hilarious!!!!

[Ian]

you did look just a little sinister Mark...

[JohnP]

Fantastic - I would have loved to see the same set of photo's taken Sunday morning.....

Great shots,  John

[MarkS]

My impressions on Woodlands:

1) Good on-site facilities: showers, real toilets and washing up facilities.
2) Toilet block is too bright and difficult to avoid.  Other random bright lights are annoying.  
3) The sky seemed to be almost as dark as Tuesnoad
4) Having Joe Public there was good and bad.  It's always gratifying to show members of the public the rings and moons of Saturn for the first time - the look on their faces speaks volumes.  But it can be a little annoying for imagers with too many people milling around - especially people wandering to the loo with bright torches.
5) The busy Bank Holiday weekend gave us little space for manouevre until we reorganised ourselves into the "OK Corral" on day 3.

All in all, it was a very successful DSC.  I thought it struck a good compromise between dark skies and good on-site facilities.  Hence, it is likely to encourage other OAS members to come along, which is a good thing. I would be very happy to go back but for hardcore imaging I prefer Tuesnoad.

Mark

[Fay]

John, I said there should have been before & after pictures!!!!!!!!!! That would have been a scoop!

[Mike]

Those are excellent close up shots

Thanks Mark

[Carole]

Ken asked me to post these for him.

[mickw]

Thoughts about Woodland

1 The facilities seemed pretty good and clean although I didn't find the shop.
2 The "Warden" was very helpful trying to get us all together
3 Woodlands could be warned about any future visits to arrange similar.
4 Good dark sky
5 Public was a mixed blessing, leaning towards a problem with imagers possibly ?
6 A visit during good weather with the school holidays (avoiding Bank Holidays) might give a better idea of how crowded it can get.
7 As Carole said, Woodlands may let us in "out of season", but they did stop us before as the field was boggy - although there might let us use a non boggy area, especially after a couple of visits.
8 As John said, extra curricular activities would be difficult.  Although teddy burning on bonfires made of trees seemed acceptable
9 The toilet block lights were pretty bright - we were going to do an after dark recce to identify any "good" areas to camp - did anybody actually remember ?
10 I liked the place, but I was not imaging

[Fay]

Did anyone get a picture of Chris with his eyes open?????

[mickw]

Yep,
Robert with your camera outside the pikey