SingAstro

I had a great time last night. Was good to meet up with so many people, esp the veterans! Things were very unpromising in the afternoon, with heavy clouds blanketing our tropical isle. On the way to ECP near 8pm, it started to drizzle, and at 8.15+, oh no...., it rained quite heavily whilst we were ...

Excellent images, Ivan!

I esp like the colours: very natural and lots of depth.

Images are v clean too.

Keep up the good work!

To get things going, I'm putting in a starting bid of $100.

(As stated on the event thread on EF2015, even if I'm outbid, I pledge $100 to the Singastro fund.)

That's a very nice gesture! And a great idea.

I feel inspired by it. I'll now put in a starting bid of $100 on the Buy & Sell thread. Even if I'm outbid, I hereby pledge $100 to the Singastro fund, to be paid soon after the event.

Let's support Singastro!

Finally, New Horizons' closest approach to Pluto (at 12,500km) has taken place this evening (Tues 14 July 2015)! I watched the live coverage of the closest approach commemoration on NASA TV via UStream just now, with closest approach taking place at 1149UTC (7.49pm Singapore time). This has been tru...

Finally, after a wait of over 9 years, we're down to just 23 hrs to New Horizon's closest approach, at 7.49pm S'pore time tomrw, Tues 14 July 2015! I can still remember watching the lift-off of New Horizons 'live' at 3am Spore time on 20 January 2006. We were all that much younger back then! See her...

Do catch NASA's special coverage of the Pluto encounter on UStream, every day for the next week. Next one at 11.30 pm Sg time.

Details here:
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Participate/com ... Events.php

Good news! The New Horizons probe has returned new images after recovery from the glitch. Here's the latest publically available image taken by the monochrome LORRI imager on 7 July, at just 7.8 million km from Pluto and only 7 days before closest approach on 14 July. I then processed the image and ...

Hi Rich, according to Nasa, the glitch happened because New Horizon's primary computer was overloaded with too many tasks sent from mission controllers, and the probe went into safe mode; here's an interesting account of Nasa's media briefing on the glitch: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakda...

Presenting below... perhaps one of the most detailed image of Pluto and Charon thus far. I've enhanced the very latest publically available raw image of Pluto and Charon from the New Horizons website, using Photoshop's unsharp mask, sharpening and colour picker tools. Image taken from the LORRI tele...