Those who Are Not working - Don't Waste Tonight!

Post by **Airconvent** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:05 am

what a clear night it is today! ok...not full transparency of course but clear enough to be enjoyed! likely due to the rain this afternoon clearing up the clouds..

I just saw the whole of Auriga and parts of Pegasus and Saturn just visible at the corner of my window next to Gemini...
for those who are not working tomorrow (like me)...quickly lug your scope out for a look!...

if only all Friday and Sat nights were so clear.....sigh..

rich

Post by **weixing** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:17 am

Hi,
Ya lor... I can see M41 quite clearly with my nake eye out of the kitchen windows.

Can start planning my observation list for this weekend observation session.

Have a nice day.

harlequin2902 · Post by **harlequin2902** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:38 am

Yup, very clear over here in Toa Payoh Central too. I have a very nice view of the North and a bit of the North East through the windows of my living room, and I did set up my MN56 to observe Saturn for about an hour. It's nice to be able to see it again after such a long wait.

carlogambino · Post by **carlogambino** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:08 pm

Deep blue and clear skies=little moisture in air=good transparency=

MooEy · Post by **MooEy** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 3:14 pm

great nite. went with NPAC to west coast for their leonids'04 session. managed to catch quite a few objects with my 12x50 binos. m41, m42, m45, m35, ngc2158, m36, m37, m38, m93 and a few meteor.

~MooEy~

ykchia · Post by **ykchia** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 8:20 pm

Hi folks:
Indeed the weather looks excellent shortly after 2:00am. Earlier in the night I bagged the 2nd greatest globular cluster - 47 Tuc, gone downstair after mid night to try catch m31/m32 together ,stumbled upon the double cluster in Perseus and did a quick processing and posted as usual.
I left my meteor catcher running till day break and found a bright meteor -2 -3 mag leaving a persistent train... around 5:14am

http://www.ykchia.com/sep_oct04.htm

If the good weather persist don't forget to watch Leonids Sat early am!

rgds
ykchia

Post by **Airconvent** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 11:57 pm

ykchia wrote:Hi folks:
Indeed the weather looks excellent shortly after 2:00am. Earlier in the night I bagged the 2nd greatest globular cluster - 47 Tuc, gone downstair after mid night to try catch m31/m32 together ,stumbled upon the double cluster in Perseus and did a quick processing and posted as usual.
I left my meteor catcher running till day break and found a bright meteor -2 -3 mag leaving a persistent train... around 5:14am

http://www.ykchia.com/sep_oct04.htm

If the good weather persist don't forget to watch Leonids Sat early am!

rgds
ykchia

hi YK,
wah....your Tucanae 47 is nice man...your best image so far...!
this is one of the Globulars that looked great on my ETX90 apart from Omega Centuri and M13 at Mersing.
As for the Leonids, there is this local law of nature that says meteor showers MUST always be accompanied by 99% cloud cover...I hope the law is bent once in a while....:-)

rich

ykchia · Post by **ykchia** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 12:20 am

Hi Ric:

... for a fixed tripod ok lah.. a better sky and stacked many many frames will definitely help. Globulars - imho I think Omega Centauri beats 47 Tuc many many times..

Just posted a bright meteor trail: the direction is suggestive of a leonid but i have no time to check path length but its angular velocity looked too slow...
tonite is bad - i am hopping for a good Sat morning sky...

Clear sky to all - we need one on Saturday Morning!!!!

rgds
ykchia

fizzy123 · Post by **fizzy123** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 8:38 am

Ha..... Just managed to do some observing for 2 hrs at the Bedok reservoir. But, unfortunately, the clouds came in and covered the southern skies and there was tis thin layer of high altitude clouds throughout the skies. Cassiopeia, Perseus, Andromeda, Taurus, Auriga can be seen, but I did not prepare finder charts for them thus I just randomly scan the sky. I got some unexpected rewards. :idea:

While obsrving Cassiopeia, I noticed a few dim fuzzies near sigma and in between Epsilon Cassiopeia, 50x. I plot down the positions, while tallying it against an atlas, I was surprised.

I actually spotted NGC 457, 663, 659, 654, 457 and M103.

NGC 663, 659 are both as dim as one another, they veri close to one another, almost touching. 3 or 4 star can be resloved in 663 and it is slightly brightr.

Moving down to 654, it is brighter than 663 but star not resolved. It is just below 663 and about same size.

M103- tight, brighter fuzzy just next to sigma.

457 is just above sigma. Brighter and slightly bigger than 663.

Lastly, observed the extremely bright and light polluting moon. :? 8)