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Solar B · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 138 Location: Dalgety Bay

Hi Folks
Just a to say how much i enjoyed the meeting on Tuesday.
We were a little down on attendance but i have to say that
I really enjoyed Geoffs (Cosmic) presentation on the
Russian Space Programme...he certainly knows his stuff
on that topic and it was good to revisit some memories of
the former Soviet Unions exploits...nice one Geoff. Very Happy

It was also good to see a couple of new faces at the
meeting,so hoping to catch up with them again soon.

Brian

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Cosmic · Joined: 12 Jun 2008 Posts: 190 Location: Dunfermline

Hi Brian
Glad you enjoyed the presentation Smile

I tried to keep it as varied as possible bearing in mind we had a younger audience too. It's always difficult to maintain a balance between the age group, do I make it technical? and if so will the youngsters switch off. I think it was the right balance however, my youngest daughter told me it was too long at 45mins Smile

Did I really go on that long?

I would like to give a presentation on unmanned planetary soviet exploits in the future. Let's see.
Thanks for your kind comments I really appreciate it when members take the tiime to comment on the frorum, it makes me feel it was all worth the effort.

By the way loved the cartoons on Refractors (grrrrrr)

Must thank Don Makin for the excellent painting of Jim Lovell looking so folorn and hopeless in Apollo 13. If anyone would like to see the other Paintings by Don please pop into the shop Cosmic PCs and check out the space exhibition. We hope to build on this with a series of retro space paintings aka DAN DARE style. All the paintings will eventually be up for sale with the proceeds going towards our New Observatory project.
I will take some pics and forward to Emms maybe she could feature it in the Astro sheet.

Anyway back to the grindstone bye for now.
Cosmic
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Sounds like another good meeting!

Happy to include any images you can send for a forthcoming of SBA:B, Geoff - if you can mail them to the newsletter e-mail address (compressed if poss, please, as I don't have Broadband!).

Cheers,
Emma

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