cosmic dave Posted April 17, 2013 Author Share Posted April 17, 2013 Shall I call the yacht club at gib point to see if that would be usable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbird Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 No harm in enquiring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Justinshaw Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 I agree gib point is a great place as a base and this new site gives us more opportunities for extra meets, I read about a group who also use a nature reserve, they were allowed to build and observatory on the land and got lottery funding, will have to look for the website again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic dave Posted April 18, 2013 Author Share Posted April 18, 2013 I agree gib point is a great place as a base and this new site gives us more opportunities for extra meets, I read about a group who also use a nature reserve, they were allowed to build and observatory on the land and got lottery funding, will have to look for the website again Wouldn't that be nice. We could look at going down the lottery route ourselves, elac would have to go on a more formal footing first. We need to ask ourself is that something we want to do and is elac ready for that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Justinshaw Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 isnt there a meteor shower this weekend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 isnt there a meteor shower this weekend? The Lyrids, only about 10 per hour though, plus the Moon will be qite bright. Meteor showers are a little unpredictable though and can also produce the odd fireball! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic dave Posted April 18, 2013 Author Share Posted April 18, 2013 Can we have no talk about fireballs here please, not got over the 1st meet incident yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Can we have no talk about fireballs here please, not got over the 1st meet incident yet I heard you was still getting therapy over that incident! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Justinshaw Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 what happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic dave Posted April 18, 2013 Author Share Posted April 18, 2013 what happened? Its not something we talk about Justin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Justinshaw Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Its not something we talk about Justin Im intrigued now, wish I had been there haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic dave Posted April 18, 2013 Author Share Posted April 18, 2013 I'm sure someone will fill you in on the details shortly Justin lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Well it sounds like your secret is no longer safe Dave. Justin, Dave is the person that got the ball rolling with ELAC and got us all started off. Last year at our first meeting we had all had a great night, Dave was packing his gear away in his car and there was a massive fireball, it lasted about 12 seconds, really bright and broke up into a lot of pieces towards the end. Myself and Paul were shouting Dave again and again but he was so busy putting his gear away that when he did finally pop his head out of his car the fireball had gone. The fireball was all over the news the next day and we had been lucky enough to have witnessed it, except poor Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic dave Posted April 18, 2013 Author Share Posted April 18, 2013 Wasn't a happy bunny Justin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 But i should mention that we never remind him Justin, only every chance we get! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Justinshaw Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 (edited) But i should mention that we never remind him Justin, only every chance we get! Edited April 19, 2013 by Justinshaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic dave Posted April 18, 2013 Author Share Posted April 18, 2013 Then to make matters worse justin was that when the sept fireball passed over I was signing the keys back in at butlins at 11pm and missed that one while everyone else watched Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Justinshaw Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 very unlucky Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Have you ever seen a fireball Justin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic dave Posted April 18, 2013 Author Share Posted April 18, 2013 Have you ever seen a fireball Justin? I haven't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Justinshaw Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 nope, only seen a couple of meteors too, I think we were down gib in November (think that was it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 We saw the Preseids last year in August at Gibraltar Point, that was a really good night. Lots of meteors and some were bright green! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 nope, only seen a couple of meteors too, I think we were down gib in November (think that was it) I think that was the Geminids and that was i think in December? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Justinshaw Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 I was away most of December so it was before that one, wonder if it was just a shooting star we happened to see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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