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StargazerJMK
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Reged: 04/12/05
Posts: 690
Loc: Out in the Dark Looking Up
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Then the bourbon is on me! 
Here's to OSP! Hope you can make it, Joan.
OHHHH Bourbon AND Corona... how can a girl say No???? hehehe
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Joan
StargazerJMK
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Out in the Dark Looking UP!
Orion XT12 Classic/F4.9 w/a Wyorock Focuser
EZ CBP tracking platform
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StargazerJMK
professor emeritus
Reged: 04/12/05
Posts: 690
Loc: Out in the Dark Looking Up
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I bounced my cellphone off the same satellite that I used for my internet and HBO...But I'm not going up this year.
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Joan
StargazerJMK
Location:
47° 15' N/122° 30' W (Tacoma, WA)
Out in the Dark Looking UP!
Orion XT12 Classic/F4.9 w/a Wyorock Focuser
EZ CBP tracking platform
Coronado PST H-alpha
Home-made 8 in./F6 Dob
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square_peg
Postmaster
Reged: 03/26/04
Posts: 23797
Loc: Maple Valley, WA
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The vendor that ran the satellite internet last year isn't coming, so I am hoping somebody else has stepped up with a satellite system. Do you know for sure there is going to be internet again this year ? I haven't seen anything about it on the website.
I wasn't aware of that. I was just basing it on how things were the last few years. If nothing else Verizon Wireless customers should have internet. I did last year....a little weak....a little slow, but it worked.
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Tom (Pegster)
DSH-8 (GSO Dob)
15x70 Oberwerks
SVP 100 f/6 achro
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Sears Discoverer EQ 60/900
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History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
Thucydides
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Myles
sage
Reged: 03/25/06
Posts: 491
Loc: Seattle, Washington
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Enroute to TMSP in a couple hours ...
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Seattle, WA
100ED, SV80ED, SV115 on order
PST DS, WO66 white light
35Pan, 27Pan, 14XW, 10XW, 7XW, 5XW, 3.5XW
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JohnH
sage
Reged: 10/04/05
Posts: 492
Loc: vancouver near the wilds of B...
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We are packed and leaving, the wife and I.
Look for a blue CRV, BC plates, a big bug tent (Scrabble and card players welcome)
I didn't think we could pack it all in but theres still room!!! (Insert evil laugh)
3 tables, 2 tent, 2 scope one mount, propane stove etc ettc.
Maybe I'll ACTUALLY onserve this year.
I will be bringing at least one keg of Heinekin, so stop by. I'm John, the wife is Deb and our dog is Koko. who will be in a kennel in E-Burg from Thur to sunday
Edited by JohnH (07/30/08 10:07 AM)
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rwiederrich
Goldfinger
Reged: 11/17/05
Posts: 5888
Loc: Bremerton Washington
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You guys have a great time. Table is a fun star party. One of the best I have ever been to.
I'll stay back here and enjoy the same stars from GOMOC at our star party. Travel safe.
Try to take a day hike over to the gorge, and see if you can find any hidden snow piles......Great refreshment during a hot day.
Have fun fun fun......
Rob
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Spaced
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 03/01/05
Posts: 1695
Loc: Tacoma, Washington, USA
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Ya'll have yourselves the time of your lives!
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Mike
Look! Up in the sky!
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Myles
sage
Reged: 03/25/06
Posts: 491
Loc: Seattle, Washington
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TMSP - recap:
Overall - frozen - winds, daytime temps 55 - 70 nightime approaching 32.
Multiple layer required, hats, gloves fully advised.
I might have some of the details on the wrong day...
Wednesday - a few hours of mostly clear, cold, breezy - viewing over around midnight
Thursday - cold, windy clouded up around 11 ish - I think it cleared around 2AM, but I turned in.
Friday - heavy winds overnight, fog, dew, and we awoked in a cloud with cold and wet. Night - clear for a moment - very windy and cold - maybe clearing after 2:30AM
Saturday day and approaching night looked greatt - clear skies but... dew! Took my finder and 4" refractor out almost immediately, cold, used binos. Dew gave way to frost around 12:30 AM, friend's observing table covered in frost - - Dew probably abated alittle after 2:00, but I turned in a 1:45
- On the bright side, those with kids on the west side of the student tent enjoyed an annual reunion with a half dozen familys having camped there over the past 3 TMSPs.
- Myles
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Seattle, WA
100ED, SV80ED, SV115 on order
PST DS, WO66 white light
35Pan, 27Pan, 14XW, 10XW, 7XW, 5XW, 3.5XW
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nicmert
newbie
Reged: 09/03/07
Posts: 3
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Myles hit it right on. It was cold! I think that on Friday it didn't get over about 46. I had a great time in spite of the cold. It would have been good to have a couple more hours of viewing on the nights it clouded over, but we didn't. Can't wait till next year!
Steve
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groz
professor emeritus
Reged: 03/14/07
Posts: 540
Loc: Duncan, BC
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Cold and windy did sum it up quite well. We parked overnight in Ellensburg on Tuesday nite, arrived there about 1 am, part of the plan to get the body clock turned around into night mode for a couple weeks of star party fun. After a big breakfast, we drove up the hill to the site of the event on table mountain. The first clue, after we arrived and got set up, we saw one of the port-a-potties with the door taped closed. Turns out, it had blown over on tuesday night, a forwarning of weather to come.
Wednesday nite - I was sick, think I ate something I shouldn't have, spent the nite curled up in bed, freezing. Chris was out, said the views were ok, but it was cold.
Thursday nite - Cold, windy, views were good until the clouds rolled in just before midnight. We froze. Our neighbor had a telescope blow over in the field overnight.
Neighbors on the other side had 2 teen aged girls with them (grandkids), and froze. Friday morning we all got weather forecasts via cellphone browsers, and saw 'more of the same' for friday evening. The neighbors packed up and headed home, the girls couldn't do another night that cold in the tent. We looked it over, then packed up and started the drive to mount kobau. We knew we had to sacrifice one of the nights to the drive between sites, and decided we may as well sacrifice friday night, forecast was awful.
For us, table mountain was a bit of a bust, but, when mountaintop camping, you pays the money and takes the chances. The original plan was to leave saturday after the draws because we had to get onto mt kobau by sunday morning to meet up with friends, so in reality, we only left one day early and would have missed to clear nite saturday in either case.
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