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Last weekend RASC star party
开云体育Hi Paul, How was the RASC star party last weekend? I was not able to attend. I have not seen any reports. Mike On Sep 18, 2024, at 9:58?PM, PolyWogg <thepolyblog@...> wrote:
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Seemed good Mike. Saturn peeked over the trees at around 8:00, too moony by Attilla's normal standards of course, but people enjoyed it. About 40 scopes. Dave was doing great job on parking, Katie was handling coord, and I think they have someone for next year for coordination. It works well with someone doing outreach, which was always my rubicon. I'm willing to do coord, but if I'm going to be there, I'm not willing to just do coord and outreach without running my scope. My favourite part was always running my scope. I haven't seen larger report of?#s, but lot was full. Diefenbunker was doing some event though, maybe escape room, so a bit of extra traffic going through.? My only "complaint" or criticism, if I had one, was that people did the old-style setup where they crushed against the edge of the field. There were too many scopes in too small of a space, and lines were almost impossible to identify, particularly as they were all looking South/East at that time. A lot of people walking in front of scopes to get in line for another one next to it. There was a guy with a Dob, not even sure he got to use it for the first hour or so until it was dark and stuff to see straight out. I did mention that perhaps, if they didn't find a coordinator next year, they might approach star party coordinator alumni (cough, cough) to do one month out of the set. :) As an aside, and to flag for OAFs who might have experience in this area, I finally got my 3D printer going and sometime in the next year I'm going to turn my attention to something like a Dob design or a couple of the simple refractors. There are lots of designs online, but I need more experience in printing to know the pluses and minuses of certain settings before attempting anything that big. I'd love to do a Mak at some point. Actually, I've love to recreate the SarBlue design in carbon fibre. :) On Wed, 18 Sept 2024 at 22:33, Mike Moghadam via <moghadam=[email protected]> wrote:
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Paul, I had expressed interest in becoming the star party coordinator to Katie. I've attended almost every party this year, and I'm usually the last (or one of the last) to leave. I love showing people views through the scope and talking about astronomy and equipment. I would only take on the coordinator role if I could keep doing what I love.
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I'd be interested to hear your thoughts. IF I took on the coordinator role, I would want to keep things free and flexible, but understanding best practices would be helpful!
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I'm not really interested in 'coordinating', but I enjoy the public star parties so much and I want them to continue. If someone needs to step up and do some admin work to make sure it continues, then I'll do it.?
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