Now in addition to the clouds

JY · Post by JY » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:04 am

Hi,

I set up my scope for imaging last night at Yio Chu Kang, quite glad that the sky was almost clear ... and a powerful beam of light illuminated the exact area I was going to image!

Direction was due north, seemed to be coming from Malaysia or the race course, or a Fun Fair ? ... huge beam that painted the sky from 8 pm to about 9 pm, rotating like a light house at 60 deg altitude angle !

Anyone knows what that is? Is it some kind of temporary stuff?

After that and before the clouds resumed their usual coverage, I managed to capture 40 minutes of NGC 7331...

[img]http://www.lesbeninger.com/astronomy_im ... 071009.jpg[/img]

Cheers

Jean-Yves

Meng Lee · Post by **Meng Lee** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:28 am

Don't scare me, I stay in AMK ah. Maybe its construction or some soccer match going on.

Nice pic you have there. The dim background galaxies shows the depth of the pic!!

Post by **rcj** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:29 am

can't seem to open the image, JY....

JY · Post by JY » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:35 am

Hi Remus, try a "cut and paste" ... I have tried to embed the image into the text but it does not show ... I may not master the use of [img]...[/img] ...

Meng lee ... I was quite shocked! I thought it could be a new light at Seletar Airport but it was not really in that direction ... and it stopped after a while ...

Cheers

Jean-Yves

Post by **acc** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:07 am

Hi JY
Here's the embedded image. To do this, use:

Post by **weixing** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:52 am

Hi,

Direction was due north, seemed to be coming from Malaysia or the race course, or a Fun Fair ? ... huge beam that painted the sky from 8 pm to about 9 pm, rotating like a light house at 60 deg altitude angle !

The light had always been there... seen quite a few time, but does not sure what is the light for and does it on every night.

Please note: To see the image post by JY, you need to manually set your proxy server (eg. SingNet user-> Address: proxy.singnet.com.sg port: 8080) on your web browser... automatic detect setting won't do.

Have a nice day.

ariefm71 · Post by **ariefm71** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:08 pm

Hi JY, Can you show us your new AP Mach-1 mount?

Arief

Post by **rcj** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:29 pm

gasp! must be from the astromart ad.... :oops:

JY · Post by JY » Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:40 pm

Hi, I'll post a few pictures when I set it up for the first time.
Right now it is sitting in front of me, looking at the rain through the windows ...

My AP600 was great but this one looks even greater! and it can load bigger scopes ...

Cheers

JY

Post by **weixing** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:32 pm

Hi,

and it can load bigger scopes ...

... and cause longer rain too...

Have a nice day.