We've been on a few Star parties and they're good fun.
This is our first time at Astrocamp - as for the dates, normally they're at the end of April, so beginning of May is unusual, but it's hard to tell which was critical:
* to avoid an inconvenient Moon
* the site would rather keep the bank holiday weekend 'open'
* the transit on the Monday
Personally, we knew that I'd be free of work commitments for the Astrocamp dates, but the transit was a coincidence. I'd probably have taken the day off anyway - as I did for Venus 2004
My favourite image from the day

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