Pre-SingAstro Festivals Session: Wednesday, 10 Nov 2004

Post by **weixing** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:08 am

Hi,
Date : Wednesday, 10 Nov 2004
Time : 21:30
Venue: The grass field between the Tampines Swimming Complex main entrance, Mosque and the Tampines Sport Complex.

Moon Info
Rise Time: 05:23 (11 Nov 2004)
Illum : 0.7%

SingAstro Festivals 2004 is coming soon, so will be making use of this observation session to do a final check on the equipments. Hope the weather will be good this time. Anyone who are interested are welcome to join in the fun.

Have a nice day.

fizzy123 · Post by **fizzy123** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:21 pm

Hi Weixing,
I bet u must be having a good time. The sky tonite is veri clear due to the afternoon shower. Can see the bright typical winter constellation, Orion, Canis Major, Auriga, Tarus,Cassiopeia. Keep finger crossed, hope it will belike tat during the festival.

8)

By the way, u got no tansport how ur planning to go there? :idea:

Post by **Airconvent** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:57 pm

fizzy123 wrote:Hi Weixing,
I bet u must be having a good time. The sky tonite is veri clear due to the afternoon shower. Can see the bright typical winter constellation, Orion, Canis Major, Auriga, Taurus,Cassiopeia. Keep finger crossed, hope it will belike tat during the festival. 8) By the way, u got no transport how ur planning to go there? :idea:

Matthew called me from Changi this afternoon and said clear blue sky.
This is in contrast to me in Tuas where cloud cover is 100%.
Then later Weixing called me at 9pm and said Tampines is cloudless while in Hougang, cloud cover is about 80-85 % !! What a contrast!

MooEy · Post by **MooEy** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:27 am

>.< i'm having mag 2.5 skies here, theta auriga is barely visible.

~MooEy~

Post by **weixing** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:56 am

Hi,
The sky were great in Tampines... 9/10 for singapore sky. Setup my scope at 21:00 and the whole sky were cloudless for nearly 4 hours. The seeing and transparency was also great... the stars didn't seem blink. The only problem is the air and ground is wet, so expect the dew to attack quite soon.

Anyway, only two of my usual gang were with me: Ariefm71 ( C8 ) and Debash (didn't bring scope... sell his diagonal and still waiting for his new diagonal).

By the way, tonight didn't actually observe much... busy talking, collimating the scope and testing eyepieces...

The session end at around 1:30am due to dew attack and some cloud seem to be appearing. And as per normal, the cloud disappear after we pack up and was very clear again.

Have a nice day.