Dave Lillis

opps sorry guys.

I saw a program about that part of the world recently its certainly an awesome place. Frank, if you're going, let me know, I'll bring a scope. Stefanos, the signature popped into my head as I was loading the scope into the car one day. I reckon it'll either wreck my cars suspension or my back/knees.

Well guys, You must have a sense of humour doing astronomy in Ireland. I remember the May 4th 2004 lunar eclipse, I was over at a friends house and we were watching it from his back garden patio, it was mostly cloudy with patches of clear and no rain, but the wind was blowing at +60mph as we were in the middle of a storm, we just stood there laughing, holding onto the scope tripods for dear life in fear that they'd be blown into the next garden. We somehow managed to get some nice views and some pics. Stefanos, Was it you who had that fab Baader binoviewer on the 10" Dob? That's an awesome piece of equipment and give me some of my best views of Jupiter I've ever seen. Nice ! I was seriously impressed with the way you modified the scope to work with it. I'm thinking of getting such a binoviewer for my own scope, but don't fancy cutting off 3+ inches off the truss poles, at that stage I'd start loosing the outer areas of the primary mirror.

Hi Everyone, This is my first time posting here and given what happened to Frank, I'll hold off on using the babelfish random word generator. Many many thanks for your generosity at Mt Parnon, it was something else, there is a 20 page thread on the IFAS boards about it http://www.irishastronomy.org/boards/viewtopic.php?t=8370&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=225 Page 16 onwards are comments put in after we had come back form Greece. Kostas, that was me you met at the far end of field, like you I tried some wide angle shots, I'll scan them in for you to view, however been a film camera they are not quite as good as what you captured. While imaging, I had left the camera on its own with no red light, when I went back to the camera after my timer had finished, I wasn't able to find the thing!, after about 10 minutes of searching I finally found it for some reason I thought I had left it much nearer to the cars then I had done. Anyway, it was certainly an experience for us, never having been the Greece before. Isn't it amazing that people from the far ends of the EU can think the exact same way about astronomy, it's like it instantly breaks down barriers between people.