SingAstro

Coloured Pluto comes into view
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32311907

I've been reading some books on the Japanese invasion of Malaya and Singapore during the Second World War. A mention of the sighting of the Southern Cross by the advancing forces into Singapore caught my eye, and I decided to find out what the night sky was like on that historic night. The area of t...

Great shots, Jeremy! I especially like your Omega Centauri: a million points of light! Keep up the good stuff.

A belated thanks all for your comments! Rich: as I had drawn up a list of 100+ priority objects (in both the northern and southern skies), I decided to focus on them instead of attempting a Messier marathon. Anyway, it would not have been possible then to view all of the Messier objects since some o...

Excellent images Ivan! Sharp and aesthetically pleasing.

Thanks for sharing. Keep it up!

There is a 2 page full-spread article on sidewalk astronomy in Singapore, in today's Straits Times (Fri 3 Apr 2015), in the Lifestyle section at pgs C4 & C5. It features and quotes from RLow, Remus, Gary Chee, Gerarddyn and Dave Ng. Congrats!! It also features Singastro, plus our Jan 2015 Comet ...

I joined the March 2015 trip to Telok Sari (Mersing, Johor) organised by Remus. This is a brief trip report of my observing experience there. I brought my Obsession 12.5" f/5 Dob (with a superb JMI mirror), direct transport courtesy of Jeremy, and spent two nights observing there (the nights of...

As reported in an AAVSO Special Notice, the blazar PKS 0716+71 is currently in a bright outburst, at about around mag 12+: http://www.aavso.org/aavso-special-notice-396 A blazar is a type of very compact quasar, which is an active galactic nuclei in a giant elliptical galaxy; these are extremely lum...

Thanks to a tip-off from Thomas, I saw and took photos of iridescent clouds (also known as rainbow clouds) in the late afternoon today, at between 5:35pm and 6:00pm (sunset was at 7:19pm). I only had a mobile phone to image the rare phenomenon through a window, in the Robinson Road area. The Sun was...

I managed to view the asteroid (2004 BL86) in the eyepiece at 11pm last night, using my Meade LX90 SCT. The asteroid was quite faint; according to the JPL Horizons website, it was then at mag 10.1 and in Lynx. It was in the NE. I saw it as a grey-white star-like dot. It moved very slowly but I could...