[Atmob-discuss] [Atmob-club] [Atmob-announce] Eclipse 2012 notice

Mon Nov 2 22:29:08 EST 2009

I know Tommy Cragg personally from my time as a councilman on the AAVSO. He
has been inviting me to visit the observatories he uses out there. We will
make contact at the appropriate time,

Mario

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Paul A. Valleli <valleli at rcn.com> wrote:

> Bernie,
> In addition to Tommy Cragg, there are several other AAVSO members that may
> help us out on a visit/eclipse expedition to AU.  John Briggs has several
> contacts there as well, and he recently re-established some of them for the
> KBO occultation near Cairns.
> Paul
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> *Date:* Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:28:08 -0600
> *From:* "Bernie Volz (volz)" <volz at cisco.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Atmob-club] [Atmob-announce] Eclipse 2012 notice
> *To:* "Mario Motta" <mmotta at massmed.org>,"Fred Ward" <drfred at hughes.net>
> *Cc:* atmob-club at atmob.org
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> multiple times with ZERO LUCK! One was someone John Reed ran into multiple
> times in China and he did contact me when he was visiting New York, but has
> NEVER responded to a single query I had about Australia, Cairns, or
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> related to the Eclipse. It would be good to hook up with amateurs and
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> Regarding any extension trip(s), we will look into those but as those
> are unlikely to be in short supply or as restricted in terms of locations,
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> And, yes, as Mario pointed out . we scuba dive!!
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> atmob-club-bounces at atmob.org [mailto:atmob-club-bounces at atmob.org] *On
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> Of *Mario Motta
> *Sent:* Monday, November 02, 2009 9:45 AM
> *To:* Fred Ward
> *Cc:* atmob-club at atmob.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Atmob-club] [Atmob-announce] Eclipse 2012 notice
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> nothing on that web page. can you make clear what is your point?
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> sure many/most will spend at least 2 weeks (I will). But.. English
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> and easy country to travel, so.. at this point did not feel we should
> 'tie" people down to a set schedule for second week, can go off on our
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> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Fred Ward <drfred at hughes.net> wrote:
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> Amateur Astronomy (#64, p39), you should read it, post haste.  Since many
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> us will want to spend considerable time in Australia & New Zealand, with
> Sydney as one obvious stop, it would be great to contact  Anne Adkins
> of the Three Rivers Foundation, www.3RF.org <http://www.3rf.org/>
> to arrange time for our group to meet, and spend a few days, with
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> and I are in for the eclipse, of course.  We plan to allocate 2-3 weeks to
> the whole travel adventure, including New Zealand.  If Bernie wants to
> snorkel (by himself) that's fine, the rest of us are not so adventurous.
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> *From:* Mario Motta <mmotta at massmed.org>
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> *To:* atmob-announce at atmob.org
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> *Sent:* Sunday, November 01,
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> *Subject:* [Atmob-announce]
> Eclipse 2012 notice
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> Hello all,
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>    This is a first announcement to eclipse 2012 in Cairns, Australia.
> This is being organized as usual by Myself, and Bernie Volz. It will be at
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> beach front Hilton in Cairns Australia, Nov 13, 2012. The eclipse will be 2
> min, 0.1 sec from this location.  This will be southern hemisphere end of
> spring.
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>     For details of the trip, open the PDF file, and if
> interested, print it out, and send the sign up sheet and deposit to Bernie
> Volz
> as indicated. He will be the treasurer for this expedition.  Note: we are
> not using any travel agency, or  intermediary, so  no charge cards
> possible, only checks, made out to Bernie Volz.
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> This is the 12th eclipse expedition it is my pleasure to arrange. We are
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> using any travel agency, and Bernie and I will earn not a penny on the trip
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> pay our own way also). Good news, 100% of what you pay goes to the trip,
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> news.. we are not an agency, and thus will not act like one. though we will
> make any reasonable effort to accommodate you, and help you connect with
> agents
> to expand your trip, help with airline suggestions, etc, etc... we will not
> take on the responsibility of being responsible for anything outside of the
> basic trip you see in the attachment. I say this because on recent trips,
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> "relatives" or 'friends" that the ATMOB members asked to come
> along were under the delusion it was our responsibility to do so. You are
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> to invite friends and relatives.. but please make this clear to them. If
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> wants a "full service agency" treatment, please avail yourself of the
> many other trips available (albeit for considerably more expense!). We are
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> profit, do this as a service to the ATMOB, and if by chance any funds are
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> over, those will be donated to the ATMOB if not able to be used to defray
> everyones expenses. Consider us as "organizers" for a group of
> friends called ATMOB, not a travel agency.
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> Having said that, this will be a great trip, good chance of clear skies,
> and a
> beach front hotel, with the great barrier reef out your window. (we grabbed
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> the waterfront rooms). Great place for any scuba divers... I plan on
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> quite a bit of time underwater.. except eclipse day of course!
> We are limiting the trip to 70 participants, first come first serve.
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> As usual, you may find a replacement for full refund, or $100 penalty if
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> cancel.
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> Looking forward to my 12th eclipse,
> Mario Motta, MD
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