Grant

If anybody would like to bring any cakes for the tea tent they are always gratefully received

Not long now Still time to book pitches and/or food but please be quick - these all need to be finalised by the weekend. We're a little more organised this year so I am very pleased to announce the timings in advance! Arrival Arrival - Please ensure you book in and collect your welcome packs Welcome - Come and say hi at the welcome tent - me and Daz should be hanging around there most of the time so if you need any help, assistance or just fancy a brew come and say hi! Friday 17:30 - Cafe - Curry Night 18:30ish - Cafe - Quiz - this will happen once everyone has had their curry so the time is a little flexible. If you're not having curry, please do pop up and join in the cafe has a great selection of beers and ciders to sample! Saturday 10:00-13:00 - Welcome Tent - FLO Trade Stand and Bring & Buy Sale 13:00-14:00 - Welcome Tent - Meteorites / Fossil Touch & Feel with Helen 13:30-14:30 - Rob's Pod - Group 1 Basic Astro-processing with Uranium235 (Fully Booked) 14:00-15:00 - Welcome Tent - Plate Solving in SGPro with Daz 15:00-16:00 - Rob's Pod - Group 2 Advanced Astro-processing with Uranium235 (Fully Booked) 15:00-16:00 - Welcome Tent - Timelapses with PhotoGav 16:00-17:00 - Welcome Tent - Observing the Moon - Reading the Lunar Landscape with MichaelMorris 17:30 - Welcome Tent - Hog Roast!!! 20:30ish - Welcome Tent - Star Hopping with a Dob with RikM Sunday 10:30-11:30 - Welcome Tent - Solar Capture & Processing with Ibbo 11:30-12:30 - Welcome Tent - Variable Star Observing Talk with Mr Spock 13:30 - Cafe - Sunday Roast 20:30ish - Welcome Tent - Variable Star Observing (if clear) with Mr Spock I think you'll agree it's a pretty jam packed line up - many thanks to all the volunteers for doing talks and workshops In addition to the workshops, if anybody has any specific questions they would like help with then we will be running ad hoc one-to-one's or small groups that will be arranged in a separate thread. Look forward to seeing you all soon!

We have a list of challenges for the next year based on ideas we've had in the mod/admin team but, we are very much open to suggestions We're trying to get a balance of subjects and difficulties and like to have some that pretty much anyone can take part in every so often to try and get more people involved. Please let us know any thoughts you have Cheers, Grant

You can book food anytime up until a week or so before: https://www.firstlightoptics.com/sgl-sp-booking.html Same as extra nights - I will join up all the bookings for the same person

Few more bookings have come through so pitch plan has been updated to v2

I've sent you a PM

It's only the very end section in hare that doesn't have EHU.

When you book you choose electric or non-electric and you also enter your tent size so that you will be allocated a suitable pitch ?

No but a large chunk of it and at this time of year there won't be many others around and in theory not close to us. Those that are there will know an astronomy event is going on and will be given information about red lights efc.. and welcomed to come and visit ?

We don't use the large 'rally' field because it doesn't have electric hookups...

Version 3 of the pitch plan. It's starting to fill up nicely but still plenty of room if anybody would like to come along - bookings are still open Cheers, Grant * Updated to version 3, 4th October 2017.

If you book what days you can now and then Pm me anything else you want I can sort it for you ?

Absolutely - there is still spaces please book through the FLO site. I'll aim to post up the pitch plan tomorrow - just need to chase up a couple of people's bookings with Lucksall.

Pitch allocations will be up by the end of the week - first draft is ready but some people have changed the pitch type they need so I'm just waiting for the changes to come back and will update and publish. We still have plenty of space if anybody is still to book :-)

Competition due to end today - if you would like to enter, please create your topic and upload your image asap

Please book through FLO. There are other groups booked in before / after us so it may not be possible to stay on the same pitch before and after the dates we have available - best to drop me a PM with the extra day details and I will check with Lucksall for you.

Yes - still plenty of space

Bookings are now open - full details on our shiny new SGL SP website: http://sglsp.com/ Pitch prices are the same as last year but food costs have gone up a little bit but, these haven't changed for a number of years so it was overdue. Look forward to seeing you all there Cheers, Grant

All - just a reminder, this imaging challenge ends 31st May

Yes

Tis fixed

D'oh!!!!! Fixed the post will change the banner tomorrow - how has nobody else noticed this so far!!!

Please start a new topic in this forum area for each entry

Yep - we thought with UK skies one month was too optimistic so each challenge lasts for three months so there will be some overlapping - we'll see how it works out once we've done a few