Deep Sky Camp - February 2008

[Mike]

OK the only two suitable dates are 8th Feb when it is a new moon or 29th Feb when the moon rises at 04:00.

[JohnP]

Go for 29th - I reckon being thay close to Pluckley on a Leap year might be fun.... Who knows what may happen.....

John

[Carole]

Either date is fine for me, if it's cloudy perhaps we could do a "ghost walk" in Pluckey as a group.  Might be fun.

Carole

[Mike]

Don't forget to register your vote !

[Carole]

Just booking a holiday and then I will.  If I get the dates I want it won't clash.

Carole

[Carole]

Holiday is now booked and since I am going on 3rd March I have voted for the earlier date as preference, but it looks as though the majority have gone for the later date, so if this is chosen I will try to get down for part of it.

Carole

[doug]

          If it rains while at Camp, the `scopes will get damp
          And that is no good for them, see
          Depression sets in, and that is a sin
          For we all end up drinking whiskey

          So let`s pray for Sun and have lots of fun
          While consuming the Scotch in the day. 
          Then, when night-time arrives and the stars start to shine
          The cider`s arrived; hip hooray...

          So come on, astronomers, set up the `scopes
          For another year now is upon us
          Let it rain, let it snow, let the mighty winds blow
          The stalwarts will ALWAYS be with us!

          This Christmas we will raise a glass of the stuff
          To the lads and the lasses who travel
          Out into the frost and the snow and the mist,
          We wish we were with you but have to resist
          For the cold bites deep into bone marrow.

          My apologies to all poets in the Society.

[JohnP]

Excellent Doug... pretty much sums up the last DSC...

Fay - are you going to respond with a poem of your own....?

John

[Mike]

Great poem Doug !! 

[Tony G]

Well done Doug (OAS's Poet Laureate),
and not a sheep mentioned.
John we could have a duel of the poets, between Fay and Doug and anyone else who fancy's themselves.

Tony G

[Fay]

29th Mike

[Tony G]

Fay,

If that is your attempt at poetry, then stick to great imaging and leave the poems to Doug.

Tony G

PS your scope is nearly ready, just need to line up the laser.

[Mike]

OK the consensus is for the 29th. I think Chris was going to arrange it at an alternative camp. I will speak to him.

[Fay]

Tony,

I am not usually a woman of few words!!!

Look forward to getting the WO back, thanks. Tony, I have lots of subjects I am lining up to do.


Fay

[Mike]

What was wrong with it?