Lake Gedern, our site is opposite behind the trees
May 9 to May 12, 2013
Mostly cloudy, sometimes raining, despite some forecasts predicting a few clear hours. But it was a complex, changing weather situation which
was hard to predict. Altogether I saw four objects in three nights with my 16-inch: Jupiter (first night) and Epsilon Lyrae, M13 and M71 in two
cloud holes in the third night .But people were generally relaxed and good-spirited, ITV visitors are used to frequently poor conditions. So social
contacts and small-talk dominated the event. About 450 visitors, a low number for the ITV, surely due to poor weather conditions.
Timm Klose with his lightweight-16" (13 kg) and 20" Dobsons (25 kg)
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Christian with his 8" Schiefspiegler
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With Raffael Benner at his 30-inch
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Martin Brueckner sets up 18"
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Astroshop dealers: Michael, Bernd and Hans
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Dealer Tassilo (center)
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Award ceremony for self-built telescopes: Judge Wolf Hartmann ... |
... and the audience
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From left Ben, Juergen Breitung and his son
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From left Friedhelm, Ronald, Ingo and Thomas
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On the satellite images we saw a big cloud gap, which would perhaps have given us
three hours of clear after-rain sky - if we would have been 50 kilometers to the North.
But so the southern edge of the cloud gap just touched us a bit, and later ...
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... only some "luring gaps" were left |
