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Weather permitting, Some of us will be conducting a sidewalk astronomy session at Bishan Park. Date: 1/09/2014 Time: From PM onwards Venue: Bishan Park's McDonald's We would be bringing our telescopes for the session. Feel free to join us. All are welcome to join in the fun with or without telescope.

The event is on!

Join us at the open space in front of Bishan Park's McDonald's. We will be there from 8pm.

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March 8 marks the 7th International Sidewalk Astronomy Night. And this year's event has been dedicated to the memory of John Dobson, the person who made sidewalk astronomy what it is today. We will be holding an event at Bishan Park. Weather and haze permitting of course. Date: 8th March, Saturday L...

Thanks to Ava for creating the beautiful bookmarks which I was able to use as prizes for impromptu quizzes during the talk. Glad to see and interact with educators coming for the event. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bhn5Th-CcAA50sX.jpg Glad those bookmarks were well received. :) there'll be more desi...

Also, if you're traveling with someone who has PPS Club status, you get twice the baggage allowance.

Although, my luggage is always around 15-17kg when I'm coming back from trips, unless I've been shopping like crazy.

If you manage to repair the hook, you can also consider getting a stable camera tripod for your scope.

Just let either Dave or I know if you want to borrow a tripod. Between the two of us, I'd wager we have something like 9 tripods - both for photography and astronomy.

Join you all and go to Mars as well.

(I also sent my name to Mars with Curiosity last year. Still kicking myself for not getting into space exploration earlier. I deeply regret missing the chance to send my signature to Titan with the Hugygens probe.)

WAHHHH ~~~

Milky Way in Bishan Park! *clap clap* Great effort. Super like!

So many Milky Way experts here! Maybe this upcoming long weekend, I might try to capture the Milky Way from my place at Bukit Timah. Time to borrow Pentax O-GPS unit from Dave. If he can capture Milky Way at Ang Mo Kio, I'm hoping that I can capture something from my place as well. Seems like you g...

Glad to hear that you have a convenient obs location within your home. Makes it all the more easy to start obbing when the skies are clear.

I'm waiting to settle a few more components of my setup before I set up my "observatory" at my balcony. Western views FTW~