The last couple of weeks has seen Leece and myself building rockets, filing paperwork, running simulations, and collecting gear for this year's Astrofest.
The Astrofest is a publicity event and charity fund-raiser run by Binocular Telescope & Optical World each year, and, as usual, we are providing some day-time interest with a series of rocket launches.
Gates open to the public at 3PM, and and will be marked by a launch. Launches will continue throughout the day, with high-altitude launches at 3PM, 4PM, 5:30PM, and 6:30PM (which will also be our last launch of the day).
In addition to our launches, there will be lectures and solar telescopes, and then, after we pack it in, night viewings.
We have some special things planned for this year, including two egg-lofting rockets, and a rocket that carries a video transmitter. All going well, we will capture the transmissions on tape at the launch-point.
Come along and have a look - it's always fun, and it helps the Starlight Foundation.
If you cannot make it (and even if you can), check back here for photos, and (maybe) some videos!
For the astronomers, it was a wash-out, but we managed to get in a good number of flights, and scored ourselves a nice little crowd.
We did, however, fail utterly to take any photos - so if Steveg and Firebird took any, please post them!
We did, however, take a fair bit of video footage - including from the video transmitter. We have footage from several flights, mostly from about 400'! I will post links to these in a few days time - I need to do some editting and encoding first.
Keith (from BTOW), as always, put in an enormous amount of effort into organising things, and the display hall was very impressive. It is a great shame that the weather turned nasty. Still, there is always next year, and t's a bit like SF cons in that even when it is bad, it is still fun!
We also had a chance to say 'Hi' to our various friends from the Astronomy clubs and the commercial observatories, not to mention the good people from the Mars Society.
Quoted from rdm, posted April 17th, 2005, 1:06am at here
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We did, however, take a fair bit of video footage - including from the video transmitter. We have footage from several flights, mostly from about 400'! I will post links to these in a few days time - I need to do some editting and encoding first.
I am looking forward to seeing these. A friend at work is also interested.
Congrats on the prize!
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