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Post by Montana »

Hopefully Franco will be able to give a short live tour of NEAF, I won't record it so you will have to log in to Zoom. It should be a fun live broadcast.

It is all dependent on phone signal so Franco will confirm if he can do this, which day and what time. Please don't be upset if it doesn't work but we can cross our fingers :)

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SATURDAY 15th April 10AM (Local New York time) which is UTC-4, therefore 14:00 UTC

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With the greatest respect: The Lady Librarian has omitted to mention the time and date.


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Thank you Alexandra and Chris: I expect to go on Saturday as I have family commitments on Sunday. Too bad as Eric Roel will be there Sunday. I would say 10:00AM local time could be a good time. Alexandra, if you could please send me a Zoom link to my email for sometime tomorrow (you should have it) we can do a quick tech troubleshoot. Thank you for putting the disclaimers ! :D

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I believe Alan Friedman will be doing a talk at NEAF. Wish i could have been there for that alone.


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Thanks Alexandra


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I will be unable to join the zoom live meeting but I will surely enjoy seeing the recorded youtube video


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Great stuff. I will attend the zoom meeting wearing my yellow NEAF SOLAR STAR PARTY caps for the occasion. :-)

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Have fun at NEAF Franco, I’m sorry I can’t make the zoom meeting as I’m visiting relatives in Wales.
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Franco
Ill be there in person
that's 45 minutes from my house
maybe we can meet ?
where will you be
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We’ll need the Zoom link and password to access.

I would love to attend NEAF but I would need to have ample cash with me which is something I rarely have. 😞


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We can meet at the Daystar stand at 10:00 if you want and we will start from there.

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Many thanks Franco, I hope you enjoy your day.

A video of the walk around NEAF is here https://youtu.be/DjnGnhBhn-k

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Thanks for the guided tour Franco! Wish I could be there... maybe next year.

Great seeing you all!

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great meeting you in person


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Yes thanks for the tour. Really clear
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Thank you so much for the tour, Franco! I watched with the translation, I really liked it, so many things, I think I would have died of happiness at the Lunt stand. It's just incredible! It was nice to see Alexandra, Warren, Arne, Clare and Peter.

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It was very neat to be able to go to NEAF.
Thanks Franco for the guided tour. It was interesting to see.
There is no astronomy show like that in Australia.
Hope you enjoyed the rest of your time there :)

Thanks also Alexandra for organising the Zoom.


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Thank you, everybody, for your comments. I think it was a neat experience and I learned a lot on how to do this better, less jumpy, if we decide to do it next year. It was fun to see all the stands: it was a bit a reduced format as dealers and manufactures did not come out in full force, except for ZWO, Celestron, Televue that had a very strong presence. It was great to meet John Palladini - Highfnum one of our members who has three SHGs. I hope to learn from him as we live not far from each other. I also met Stephen that was graciously helping a young lady buy a telescope from Farah - Woodland Hills. In the afternoon there was a bit of sun in between clouds so there was some Ha solar viewing with Daystar SolarScouts and a coupe of other larger scopes in WL. It was great to have some of you for the walking tour, I could see Warren, Alexandra, Clare & Peter: it was very noisy so it was kind of tough.

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That looks so fun. I wish I would have been there.


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Franco, thank you a lot for the video tour on the NEAF fear! It was very interesting to see booths of the famous brands and also to see Arne, Alexandra, Warren, Clare and Peter. You are all positive! Hope it will be a good tradition in the future to share video like this one. :hamster:

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I agree, it seems strange not seeing Meade or Orion there. I would love to have been there but one needs money and lots of it to go to NEAF!

Thanks for the presentation, Franco and Alexandra.

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Hi Franco...

Thanks for giving us the views form NEAF, and I saw a lot of familiar faces in the crowd. The vendor space did not seem to be as populated as it was pre-pandemic but that may just be my interpretation of the views. I would have liked to have attended, but I was at work while you were doing the tour.

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What I noticed most was all the refractors! I think overall even the SCT and the newtonian are taking a back seat to the refractors. The refractor may be dead to the professionals but it's alive and proliferating within amateur astronomy.


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I was delighted to find you were able to record the video for us all to see Franco and glad you enjoyed the experience. It was the toffee stall which caught my eye as that’s my go to snack for imaging!
I’ve never been to an astronomy show before so I have committed to attending the Practical Astronomy Show in Kettering 9 March 2024!
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Thank you for doing this, Franco and to Alexandra for facilitating the call/video. :bow

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ffellah wrote: Sun Apr 16, 2023 2:29 pm Thank you, everybody, for your comments. I think it was a neat experience and I learned a lot on how to do this better, less jumpy, if we decide to do it next year. It was fun to see all the stands: it was a bit a reduced format as dealers and manufactures did not come out in full force, except for ZWO, Celestron, Televue that had a very strong presence. It was great to meet John Palladini - Highfnum one of our members who has three SHGs. I hope to learn from him as we live not far from each other. I also met Stephen that was graciously helping a young lady buy a telescope from Farah - Woodland Hills. In the afternoon there was a bit of sun in between clouds so there was some Ha solar viewing with Daystar SolarScouts and a coupe of other larger scopes in WL. It was great to have some of you for the walking tour, I could see Warren, Alexandra, Clare & Peter: it was very noisy so it was kind of tough.

Franco :D
Thanks again for doing it Franco and also for the additional still pics. It helps give an overall perspective of what the exhibition is like.


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