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Okay Jeff will do, both my parents and mother-in-law are quite excited to be at this star party. I certainly hope we get at least one excellent clear night.

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Okay Jeff will do, both my parents and mother-in-law are quite excited to be at this star party. I certainly hope we get at least one excellent clear night.

Yes, please do (come see through the Beast). The Chesmont members should be pretty much together, and we are a bit of a wild bunch with large scopes.

Also, you can't miss the Beast when it's set-up (as the pic can attest to), for it looks like it's ready to shoot down the Evil Orb....


Karl
E.O.H.

Chesmont Astronomical Society
Telekit (Swayze optics) 22" F/4.5 Dob
Homemade (Parks Optics) 12.5" F/4.8 Dob
TMB 8" F/9 Refractor(The Beast)
Astrozap 6" f/8 Refractor
Orion 4" f/6 Refractor

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That's why we go early. It increases the odds..

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Okay Jeff will do, both my parents and mother-in-law are quite excited to be at this star party. I certainly hope we get at least one excellent clear night.

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As bad as the weather has been for so very long, we are certainly due for a good night or two or maybe, dare I say it, even three!

Dave Mitsky

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18" F/5 Home-Built Dob. with DD2 Mike Dudley Mirror
Highly Modified Meade DS-16 in Roll Off Roof
6" F/15 Brass w/ D&G Lens on DS-16 Mount
DS-10 10" F/4.5 Newtonian (currently being modified) and for sale
LXD650, LX200 Classic
DayStar 0.45 with multiple ERFs
AT66ED Chrome
Denkmeier FMC
11x80 Meade, 20x80 Celestron binocs (Japan Made).
Lots of Naglers and both Ethos of course. ;-)
Gadgets and parts everywhere.
And a Wife that loves it as much as me!

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I'll see if I can find out. The rest rooms should have been done long ago. They had the concrete poured last fall. At that time I heard they were going to nix the showers since there are showers not too far away, and the cost of building/maintaining them. I'll see if I can get in touch with Chip and find out.
I have my own shower so it doesn't matter to me.

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Dave or Jeff,
Do either of you (or anyone else) know of the status of the new hot showers and running water restrooms at Cherry Springs?
Has ASH indicated the number of admissions sold?

Ken R.

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I have my own shower so it doesn't matter to me.

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Go ahead, bask in all of that luxury and convenience and make the primitive among us feel bad. In about ten days, the natural enzymes on my skin and hair will kick in and I won't smell so bad. Of course, if only 200 show up, that's about 4 people per acre and only a strong breeze will waft my presence downwind. This is the reason I'm reluctant to get the big observatory. When people enter after me, they start looking around the floor for something dead. It can be embarrassing, so I was hoping for the shower installation.

Ken R.

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I've had my share of Odorifous Emanations! It's only been since last spring that I picked up this old 1979 Class C Motorhome. We've endured the gathering of flies, and vultures circling around me for many years so when the opportunity arose, I swooped on it. And it was on the "easy payment plan". It's only a hand shower, but it's good enough to keep the flies away! The public showers up the road are kept very clean and are well worth the trip. A lot of people use them and are very happy. And it's usually pretty easy to hitch a ride if you can't drive up yourself. Especially if you're upwind from them!
I usually try to park on the western side of the field so the "prevailing westerlies" keep me upwind.

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I have my own shower so it doesn't matter to me.

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Go ahead, bask in all of that luxury and convenience and make the primitive among us feel bad. In about ten days, the natural enzymes on my skin and hair will kick in and I won't smell so bad. Of course, if only 200 show up, that's about 4 people per acre and only a strong breeze will waft my presence downwind. This is the reason I'm reluctant to get the big observatory. When people enter after me, they start looking around the floor for something dead. It can be embarrassing, so I was hoping for the shower installation.

Ken R.

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18" F/5 Home-Built Dob. with DD2 Mike Dudley Mirror
Highly Modified Meade DS-16 in Roll Off Roof
6" F/15 Brass w/ D&G Lens on DS-16 Mount
DS-10 10" F/4.5 Newtonian (currently being modified) and for sale
LXD650, LX200 Classic
DayStar 0.45 with multiple ERFs
AT66ED Chrome
Denkmeier FMC
11x80 Meade, 20x80 Celestron binocs (Japan Made).
Lots of Naglers and both Ethos of course. ;-)
Gadgets and parts everywhere.
And a Wife that loves it as much as me!

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Registrations are now closed? I live about 35 miles east of State College. Dave, is it possible to still register by hand delivery?

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Chris,

Will you bring the mansion? I have a lot of lenses and cameras to try out, including a hyper plus, color Mallincam specially selected by Rock. I'll probably have to locate in the Cherry Spring ghetto area because of mount noise and possible accidental glow with the Mallincam monitor. I hate it when serious astronomers throw things at me and my telescope.

Ken R.

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It is a star *party*, and a parking lot all rolled into one. Not a library. Plenty of noise can be expected.

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Jeff,

My mount is indistinguishable from a freshly started, still frosty, idling Cummins diesel. Poor Jerry, the engineer next to me with an observer's tent kept popping his head out during slews last September; no doubt thinking he was about to be backed over by a bus

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