Jupiter Watch 2007 - the gathering
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Airconvent
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aiyah...the event ended so early. I was on my way there from Tuas area at around 11pm when weixing told me event almost over so I diverted and went home instead.
Its a crime for an astro event to end before midnight but I guess some will really need their beauty sleep too...
Hope it was a successful event and we managed to entice more newbies to appreciate the heavens more...
Its a crime for an astro event to end before midnight but I guess some will really need their beauty sleep too...
Hope it was a successful event and we managed to entice more newbies to appreciate the heavens more...
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weixing
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Hi,
Just that I sleep "too early" and wake up too early, so go back early as I'm a bit tired. Anyway, I'm tired now, but my brain still awake.. 
Have a nice day.
It's didn't ended early... the NYP people are staying there over night...Its a crime for an astro event to end before midnight but I guess some will really need their beauty sleep too...
Just that I sleep "too early" and wake up too early, so go back early as I'm a bit tired. Anyway, I'm tired now, but my brain still awake.. Have a nice day.
Yang Weixing
"The universe is composed mainly of hydrogen and ignorance."
"The universe is composed mainly of hydrogen and ignorance." 
I was ready to go around 11pm and called Wxg, he said he's on his way home. So I decided to observe from home 
Jupiter was awesome between 1am to 4am. I used my 80EDsf APO and can easily see the grs, lots of festoons, and at least 4 belts. The three biggest moons are shown as discs. Quite surprise of what a mere 3" of aperture can do on planets.
Moon showed up at around 2am, Mars one hour later. Also attempted the DSOs around the teapot. 3" of aperture is not an ideal DSO scope, i must say ;-) , but scanning the sky at almost 4deg fov with pinpoint stars on a black velvet background and occasionally bumped into nebs and globs is quite pleasing
Equipments used: Vixen 80EDsf refractor, Vixen GP2 mount, TV Everbright diagonal, 34mm Siebert Observatory, 14mm Meade S4000 UWA, 7mm, 5mm, 3.2mm Burgess/TMB Planetary (18x @ 4deg to 188x @ 0.4deg fov). No false colors detected at any of these magnifications.
cheers,
Jupiter was awesome between 1am to 4am. I used my 80EDsf APO and can easily see the grs, lots of festoons, and at least 4 belts. The three biggest moons are shown as discs. Quite surprise of what a mere 3" of aperture can do on planets.
Moon showed up at around 2am, Mars one hour later. Also attempted the DSOs around the teapot. 3" of aperture is not an ideal DSO scope, i must say ;-) , but scanning the sky at almost 4deg fov with pinpoint stars on a black velvet background and occasionally bumped into nebs and globs is quite pleasing
Equipments used: Vixen 80EDsf refractor, Vixen GP2 mount, TV Everbright diagonal, 34mm Siebert Observatory, 14mm Meade S4000 UWA, 7mm, 5mm, 3.2mm Burgess/TMB Planetary (18x @ 4deg to 188x @ 0.4deg fov). No false colors detected at any of these magnifications.
cheers,
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