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I'm going to a star party!

PostPosted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:39 am
by St. Jimmy
Hooray! I am going to a star party on September 9-10! It's the Annual fall Boy Scout Star Party sponsered and hosted by the Toledo Astronomical Association. w00t! :rgs-woot: This will the this first star party I been to, so hooray again!

PostPosted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:04 am
by Ronoh55
haha...i could sooo see u in a boy scout outfit

but seriously, thats cool...what exactly do u do at a star party though?

PostPosted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:33 am
by umop ap!sdn
Yay!!!!!! :D

Ronoh, I think it's just a bunch of people standing around each other's telescopes peering at the sky. Lots of fun! :mrgreen: (Seriously, I wanna go to one someday.)

Re: I'm going to a star party!

PostPosted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:57 pm
by hippietrekx
St. Jimmy wrote:Hooray! I am going to a star party on September 9-10! It's the Annual fall Boy Scout Star Party sponsered and hosted by the Toledo Astronomical Association. w00t! :rgs-woot: This will the this first star party I been to, so hooray again!


Fine, you do that. I'll have my own Star Party and only I'M invited!

*walks off in a huff*

:wink: *but not really*

Have fun Jimmy. Look at Messier Object 1 for me (it's my favorite!).

--hippay

PostPosted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:45 pm
by St. Jimmy
Ronoh55 wrote:haha...i could sooo see u in a boy scout outfit


I bet you'd like to see me in my boy scout uniform. Wouldn't you?! :wink: lol j/k

PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:49 pm
by Heid the Ba
It took me a minute to work out why the Star Party rather than the trip to Spain was the exciting part.

El Asociación Astronómica de Toledo saluda Sant Iago! :D

Have fun anyway.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:23 am
by St. Jimmy
Update: Okay so even though I told my parents about this star party, where and when it was. Well just about two weeks ago, they decide that they would plan a weekend vacation for the same weekend as the star party and my friend Leah's B-day party!!! :evil: And my dad doesn't want me staying at home because he's scared that I might throw a party or have some kind of sex orgy in his room. So now, in order to go to the star party I have to find a friend that meets these 3 requirements.
1)Willing to let me stay at their house for one weekend.
2)Parents that are willing to give me a ride to Leah's for her B-day party.
3)Parents that are also willing to give me a ride to PSR for the Star Party.

If all else fails I can live without requirement 2, but will be sad.

PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:56 am
by St. Jimmy
OM-FSM I actually found somebody who fit the requirements so I get to go to the Birthday party, star party and have a place to stay this weekend. Woot!!!

PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:21 am
by Enzo
His noodly appendage works in mysterious ways.

PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:12 am
by Heid the Ba
All praise to the FSM.

PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:49 pm
by umop ap!sdn
Yay! :D

PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:14 pm
by Dragon Star
St. Jimmy wrote:OM-FSM


Dude, that's starting to get as annoying as L33t.

PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:00 pm
by Мастер
Dragon Star wrote:
St. Jimmy wrote:OM-FSM


Dude, that's starting to get as annoying as L33t.


It took me a while to figure out what that one meant. . .

PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:57 pm
by Lance
Dragon Star wrote:
St. Jimmy wrote:OM-FSM

Dude, that's starting to get as annoying as L33t.

Oh dear FSM, what ever do you mean?

PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:12 pm
by Dragon Star
*grumble*

PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:05 pm
by umop ap!sdn
Dragon Star wrote:
St. Jimmy wrote:OM-FSM


Dude, that's starting to get as annoying as L33t.

Blasphemy! :shock:

PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:38 pm
by Мастер
umop ap!sdn wrote:Blasphemy! :shock:


is a bad beginning for such a journey.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 2:07 pm
by St. Jimmy
Ok. I am back. I had alot of fun! When it started getting dark at about 10:00, it got really cloudy. :( So Mr. Merritt set up the big projection screen and we watched Star Wars Episode 3. About halfway through the movie the clouds finally decided to run away! Hooray! So we all walked over to the big telescopes and looked at planets, stars, and some deep space objecst until the clouds came back. We looked at jupiter, the ring nebula, a binary star, and a couple other things that I can't remember the names of. But like I said the coulds came back and didn't loook like they were going away, so we went back to the dinning hall and watched Star Wars Episode 4. THen went to our tents, slept, got up, packed, and then ate a french toast, sausage, ham, doughnuts, all you can eat breakfast!! With.....COFFEE!!!!! Oh yeah, I forgot about making hippie all jealous! The main telescope we looked through had a 24" diameter. I don't remember what the length thingy (how many feet the light travels in the telescope) but I will have pictures of it later. The other telescope we looked through had a 12" diameter, with a length thingy of 15'. I've got pictures of that telescope too. When I get the pictures developed I'll post them here.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 2:13 pm
by Lance
St. Jimmy wrote:When I get the pictures developed I'll post them here.

Developed?

They still do that?

PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 2:26 pm
by St. Jimmy
Lance wrote:
St. Jimmy wrote:When I get the pictures developed I'll post them here.

Developed?

They still do that?


I am going to say this right now. I HATE digital cameras/pictures.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:27 pm
by Dragon Star
St. Jimmy wrote:
Lance wrote:
St. Jimmy wrote:When I get the pictures developed I'll post them here.

Developed?

They still do that?


I am going to say this right now. I HATE digital cameras/pictures.


:? WHY? You are a tard...

PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:01 pm
by umop ap!sdn
Did you get to see Albireo? It's a binary at one end of Cygnus (I forget which - head or tail) that one member is yellow and the other blue. I've seen it and it looks spectacular. :D

PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:39 pm
by St. Jimmy
umop ap!sdn wrote:Did you get to see Albireo? It's a binary at one end of Cygnus (I forget which - head or tail) that one member is yellow and the other blue. I've seen it and it looks spectacular. :D


That's one that we looked at!!! It's at the head of Cygnyus.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:47 pm
by umop ap!sdn
Yay! :D

PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:29 am
by hippietrekx
Dragon Star wrote:
St. Jimmy wrote:
Lance wrote:
St. Jimmy wrote:When I get the pictures developed I'll post them here.

Developed?

They still do that?


I am going to say this right now. I HATE digital cameras/pictures.


:? WHY? You are a tard...


He dislikes the QUALITY of digital. In order to get film-quality pictures from a digital camera, you need a very expensive camera. Like the one his parents have but won't let him use.

Take my camera. It's pretty grainy because it only save pictures in JPEG, and won't let me save in Bitmap, which I'd dump onto the computer, edit, THEN save to a more compressed format like JPEG or GIF.

BTW, Jimmy. You're only bragging about the size of the telescopes you saw because you don't have anything else to brag about the size of. Burn. :twisted:

--hippie