AstroFest2015

[SteveA]

Just on my way home from London after a very enjoyable day at AstroFest. My first visit since 2012, basically the same format, but was pleased to see some new exhibitors. picked up a couple of books along the way. Best presentation was by Fred Jansen on the Rosetta mission...totaly captivating. the rest of the presentations were pretty damn good as well!

[Paul73]

Glad to hear that it lived up to expectations.

I was supposed to be going today but family duties got in the way again and I was unwilling to put my carefully negotiated SGL10 pass at risk by pushing this one too hard.

Probably saved myself a fortune as wel

Paul

[red dwalf]

Any deals on kit at the show?

[SteveA]

There were some show specials...but to be honest I Had no budget so didn't take to much notice. I was particularly drawn to the Avalon mounts, which seemed very reasonably priced and also the iOptron mounts, which looked very well constructed. I restricted my purchase to a couple of books that cost me no more than thirty quid...

[athornett]

Photos, video and blog from Astrofest 2015 here:

http://www.astrophotography.me.uk/html/astrofest_2015.html

Andy

[michaelmorris]

Any deals on kit at the show?

There didn't seem to be much of a discount on new items this year.  Some dealers were noticeable by their abscence (Modern Astronomy, SCS Astro and Teleskop Service).

[vlebo]

I was looking forwards to seeing the new Skywatcher Stargate 450 truss Dob and was surprised to see that nobody brought one along. I would have thought Skywatcher would have been keen to show it off especially asI Explore Scientific had their 16" truss dob on show.  A little dissappointing.

[callump]

Michael, SCS Astro have not been for a couple of years now.

But I agree there seemed to be less exhibitors this year...