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"Starlord" wrote in message
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Haven't seen any reports about how it was this year? of did they all get
blown away by the winds?


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I attended RTMC on Sunday and it was a ghost town!! Meade, Celestron, and 90
percent of the vendors had packed up and left either Saturday evening or
Sunday morning. It is really too bad that everyone jams on Sunday morning. I
did attend a few good seminars that made the trip worthwhile. The weather
was perfect. I do not know about the seeing conditions as I did not stay
overnight.

-mij


"Starlord" wrote in message
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Haven't seen any reports about how it was this year? of did they all get
blown away by the winds?


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I was there Sat. and Sun. and had fun. It was much better weather than
last year. Unfortunately we missed the Sat. night talk/raffle nor did we
get to as many talks as we wanted to due to the short time we had.

Last year was very similar to this in that the vendors pack up by Sun.
morning. Kind of a bummer. Next year I'm going to go Fri. - Sun.



In article TOKne.44$tr.22@fed1read03, says...
I attended RTMC on Sunday and it was a ghost town!! Meade, Celestron, and 90
percent of the vendors had packed up and left either Saturday evening or
Sunday morning. It is really too bad that everyone jams on Sunday morning. I
did attend a few good seminars that made the trip worthwhile. The weather
was perfect. I do not know about the seeing conditions as I did not stay
overnight.

-mij


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Haven't seen any reports about how it was this year? of did they all get
blown away by the winds?


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I was in Big Bear Lake with my family Sunday/Monday but didn't attend =
RTMC=20
this year. Was a nice weekend on the lake!

;-)

-Florian

This doesn't sound like anything new. It's been going on for years that the Big
Vendors pack things up on Saturday night or Sunday morning and head back into
town. The Big Crowd is usually Friday and Saturday, so it makes some sense that
the Big Vendors try and head back into town for their employees to enjoy one day
of the Memorial Day weekend. Not every employee of a telescope making firm is
into amateur Astronomy.

--- Dave

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"Mij Adyaw" wrote in message
news:TOKne.44$tr.22@fed1read03...
I attended RTMC on Sunday and it was a ghost town!! Meade, Celestron, and 90
percent of the vendors had packed up and left either Saturday evening or Sunday
morning. It is really too bad that everyone jams on Sunday morning. I did
attend a few good seminars that made the trip worthwhile. The weather was
perfect. I do not know about the seeing conditions as I did not stay overnight.

-mij


"Starlord" wrote in message
...
Haven't seen any reports about how it was this year? of did they all get
blown away by the winds?

Strange goings on, under this message and attached to it are a bunch of
messages about a camera and stacking images. Strange.


"Starlord" wrote in message
...
Haven't seen any reports about how it was this year? of did they all get
blown away by the winds?


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"Starlord" wrote in message
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Haven't seen any reports about how it was this year? of did they all get
blown away by the winds?

The weather was clear and calm on Friday night, with some cirrus clouds on
Saturday night, and clear but windy on Sunday night. The Keynote Speakers,
Todd and Robin Mason, gave a very impressive talk on Hale and the
construction of the 200-inch telescope, based on their upcoming PBS
documentary. Portions of it were in 3-D. Meade showed off their new RCX400
telescopes and Series 5000 eyepieces. Chris Butler showed a hilarious and
very well-done _Star Wars_-based video, titled "Episode XXXVII: Assault of
the Goto," which featured binoculars and Newtonian telescopes disguised as
fighter spacecraft and capital ships of the Telrad Knights battling the
sinister Lord Goto and his dark blue, stubby-tubed robot telescopes.

For a summary of the conference and a list of speakers, workshops, and award
winners, check the Web site at:
http://www.rtmcastronomyexpo.org/archives/2005.htm

We saw a 3 minute preview of Chris' video at the OCA May meeting. He'll
be showing the whole thing at the June meeting next week. As I missed it
at RTMC I can't wait to see the whole thing.

Craig

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"Starlord" wrote in message
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Haven't seen any reports about how it was this year? of did they all get
blown away by the winds?

The weather was clear and calm on Friday night, with some cirrus clouds on
Saturday night, and clear but windy on Sunday night. The Keynote Speakers,
Todd and Robin Mason, gave a very impressive talk on Hale and the
construction of the 200-inch telescope, based on their upcoming PBS
documentary. Portions of it were in 3-D. Meade showed off their new RCX400
telescopes and Series 5000 eyepieces. Chris Butler showed a hilarious and
very well-done _Star Wars_-based video, titled "Episode XXXVII: Assault of
the Goto," which featured binoculars and Newtonian telescopes disguised as
fighter spacecraft and capital ships of the Telrad Knights battling the
sinister Lord Goto and his dark blue, stubby-tubed robot telescopes.

For a summary of the conference and a list of speakers, workshops, and award
winners, check the Web site at:
http://www.rtmcastronomyexpo.org/archives/2005.htm




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