Probable Mersing Observation Trip on 17th March 2007

rlow · Post by **rlow** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:25 pm

Good shots, Gavin!

Will you be driving up?

river · Post by **river** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:40 pm

Mersing Observation Trip on 17 March 2007

Car 1 - VinSnr ?
1a. ?
1b. ?
1c. ?

Car 2 - Deepakrn
2a. acc
2b. Portaball 12.5"
2c. ?

Car 3 - Ian
3a. rlow
3b. 11" AstroSky & 10" dob
3c. clemgoh w/o scope

Car 4 - Canopus (leaving S'pore at 4.30pm)
4a. Yang Beng's friend
4b. Obsession 12.5"
4c. ?

others w/o transport
1). Weixing & 8" Newt?
2). Elton & 10" Teleport?
3). Jiahao
4). Alvin & 80mm
5). Sherry & 66mm
6). Starfinder
7). river

Interested to go but no transport, can travel light with just bino.

starfinder · Post by **starfinder** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:58 pm

chrisyeo wrote:Cool photos!

Would you mind uploading them to the wiki? Just login, upload the photos, and add them to the Mersing page.

Btw, I think the lamppost to turn into the field in N26. Can someone confirm this?

You'll be pleased to see that I have uploaded the two photos (one of them with neater annotations) to the Wiki.

http://www.singastro.org/web/mediawiki/ ... hp/Mersing

Have also uploaded to the Wiki another two annotated photos of the key road signs.

Can't remember the lamp-post number.

I thought I might be travelling with VinSnr. Am not myself driving up.

Post by **Airconvent** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:19 pm

well done Gavin! Amazing details! You even have a bird's eye view too.
May I suggest also : to change the red font to perhaps white to make it more legible and perhaps to indicate the route all the way from the causeway ?

starfinder · Post by **starfinder** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:06 pm

Airconvent wrote:well done Gavin! Amazing details! You even have a bird's eye view too.
May I suggest also : to change the red font to perhaps white to make it more legible and perhaps to indicate the route all the way from the causeway ?

Hi Airconvent,

I think you are referring to the fonts in the printed road map? I have now scanned the same map of the Mersing to Telok Sari area (previously it was a photo) and re-written the words over it. I think the map and the fonts are much clearer now:

http://www.singastro.org/web/mediawiki/ ... _get_there

As for the route all the way from Singapore.... too tired. Maybe someone else can do it!

Edit: here is the map uploaded to the Wiki.

jiahao1986 · Post by **jiahao1986** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:41 am

My friend has confirmed to go. We two will take the van

Car 1 - VinSnr ?
1a. ?
1b. ?
1c. ?

Car 2 - Deepakrn
2a. acc
2b. Portaball 12.5"
2c. ?

Car 3 - Ian
3a. rlow
3b. 11" AstroSky & 10" dob
3c. clemgoh w/o scope

Car 4 - Canopus (leaving S'pore at 4.30pm)
4a. Yang Beng's friend
4b. Obsession 12.5"
4c. ?

others w/o transport
1). Weixing & 8" Newt?
2). Elton & 10" Teleport?
3). Jia Hao
4). Jia Hao's friend
5). Alvin & 80mm
6). Sherry & 66mm
7). Starfinder
8). river
9). ?

yanyewkay · Post by **yanyewkay** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:11 pm

wai wrote:
VinSnr wrote:any "passenger" knows the direction? I feel like going, but too long since I last went there..can't remember the way already. I can drive, but need a passenger to lead the way....
i got GPS, just need the co-ordinates

too bad my G-plate cannot go in without permit..

from this page.

For completeness here are Matthew's GPS coordinates for this site:
2º 36' 13.2"N, 103º46' 48.9"E

is it the same place?

starfinder · Post by **starfinder** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:47 pm

yanyewkay wrote:
from this page.
For completeness here are Matthew's GPS coordinates for this site:
2º 36' 13.2"N, 103º46' 48.9"E
is it the same place?

Yes it is the same place, the Observing Field with a few tall coconut trees at Telok Sari. The GPS co-ordinates in YiRen's website listed in your post above are identical (to the last decimal number) to the one on the Singastro Wiki. As stated, it is Matthew's GPS numbers.

I have also yesterday used Google Earth to check: these numbers correspond to the latitude and logitude numbers for the Observing Field as shown in Google Earth.

starfinder · Post by **starfinder** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:25 pm

A map of Johor has now been added to the Singastro Wiki on how to get to Mersing:
http://www.singastro.org/web/mediawiki/ ... _get_there

I have also added more descriptive text of the route and distance from JB to the Observing Field, using the numbers provided in a Tourism Malaysia map and using the distance measure feature of Google Earth. Comments and suggestions welcome!

Clifford60 · Post by **Clifford60** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:27 pm

Great description Gavin, anyone who know how to read a map will be able to find their way there.