Mastodawn

am solo for #emfcamp despite having distributed so many free tickets for others and sponsoring.

as it's my first time I'm trying to figure out whether I should join a village or establish one.

if I establish one, it's likely going to be an astro one as it's on theme, maybe kit it out with a weather station and an all sky camera and install a 10" or 12" Dobsonian telescope for all to use. install an instance of Grafana showing the weather stats and the all-sky pic, and allow people to see whether the conditions are good to come look through the scope.

is this a good idea? is this something?

or should I find a trans sluts village and just join that?

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Dee in London 1d ago

village idea for #emfcamp ... Now a village plan

https://www.emfcamp.org/villages/2026/102-astro-observability-stargazing-things

Name: Astro Observability
Theme: stargazing things
Equipment I'll bring: 200p / 250p goto Dobsonian telescope, weather station, maybe an all-sky camera, maybe a Raspberry Pi with a Grafana instance to make all this available throughout the site.

complications: needs power, needs a tent to store things and keep them dry... but also needs open sky to see stars.

ideal would be to have some space around the scope and invite others with Dobsonians to join the village so that there's not a queue for a single scope.

another ideal is that this is safe to leave unattended... fine for the scope as it weighs 50kg, can install weather and other things on a scaffold pole so it's hard to steal or tamper with.

stargazing things are basically socials... people chat, flirt, have a drink, occasionally look through a scope and curse that we're standing on a rock spinning in space and that we need to re-align the scope to the object again.

this could work... and is on theme... but is it gay enough?