Observing Satellites & Iridium Flares

Alright, this is for sharing of your observation experience. Or, if you are arranging gatherings, star-gazing expeditions or just want some company to go observing together, you can shout it out here.
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Manage to capture it on video. Happy. :)

White dot at top left hand corner is Mars:
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If sky is clear enough, very bright International Space Station flyby visible in Singapore tmr early morning - 9 May at 5:37am. Look straight up.

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Yes, this is super last minute but I just found out too. :)

Weather permitting, super bright iridium flare at 06:24:22 later this morning (17 May). Flare centre directly above Toa Payoh. :)

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Weather permitting, ISS flyby just below the moon at about 7:47pm tonight.

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"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
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