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Title: So how was last Monday's observing?
Post by: Rick on Oct 03, 2002, 02:34:00
Go on... Tell us what it was like... :wink:
Title: So how was last Monday's observing?
Post by: Sue on Oct 03, 2002, 23:41:00
We had great fun negotiating the paddlocked gate and picking our way through the post boot sale rubbish cascading fron the bins!!!Were you forewarned?

We had a good look round the sky (lots of reasonable clear patches) with binos and Jeff's scope, no satallites or planets seen  :smile:


Title: So how was last Monday's observing?
Post by: Mike on Oct 04, 2002, 01:32:00
That's twice now, I think we definately need to procure a copy of the gate padlock key if possible !!
Title: So how was last Monday's observing?
Post by: Rick on Oct 04, 2002, 02:32:00
When I was observing officer I used to send Richard George (who owns the field) a list of the dates, with my phone number on the bottom, and he'd contact me if there was a problem.

Richard would warn me about boot sale conflicts, but, so long as I didn't choose weekends it wasn't usually a problem. I guess I also used to avoid Fridays and Mondays simply because they were bad nights for getting out, so maybe I just avoided boot-sale fall-out by accident...

Recently I've been sending him a printout of the website observing evening page from time to time, but the last copy I sent might not have had all the recent dates on it, or the dates might have been changed at fairly short notice.
Title: So how was last Monday's observing?
Post by: Rick on Oct 04, 2002, 02:34:00
QuoteThat's twice now, I think we definately need to procure a copy of the gate padlock key if possible !!
Or something...

Jeff, it might be an idea to talk to Richard George sometime...