Astronomy 2008 - Reports and Photos

Post by **Airconvent** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:00 am

Hi All
Created this thread so all participants can share their thoughts and photos (do upload them)!

Post by **Airconvent** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:08 am

I always write long reports but will keep it short as I was out there the whole day and night and now dog tired!
Met alot of old faces and it has been some time since we had such large singastro gathering. The many participants that came gave everyone a good feeling it was a complete success. I met Cindy for the first time (since I know her years ago!) , caught many old singastroians and peeped through a coronado for the first time.
If it were confirmed, one highlight that was regretable was the ISS made a 15 sec appearance and none of us had our scopes set up yet! It was the first time I caught it.....
Mr Au also got a well deserved lifetime achievement award for his untiring efforts in bringing astronomy to the masses!
Anyway, will keep my report short so others can share too.
In addition, would like to thank Remus and everyone who contributed their efforts to make this event an enjoyable one for all. The working party had been working for weeks prior to the event and all day long and night as well to keep the event moving smoothly. Kudos to all! All in all it was a very well managed Astronomy 2008.

Here are a selection of photos for the events.
First the people #1 :

Post by **Airconvent** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:12 am

The People #2

Post by **Airconvent** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:17 am

The People #3

Post by **Airconvent** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:27 am

The Equipment :

A good view of all the equipment present :

Most expensive 90mm Maksutov around!

Pentax....same as my camera!

No event can be complete without Gavin's Super Bino..

The "Cat's" new Tak Baby G!!

rlow's super light, airline-friendly grab-and-go 114mm Newt.

Post by **Airconvent** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:33 am

Activities :

Remus and his interesting talk...it included my WO80 and his Questar Mak!

A participant taking a peek at the sun

Meng Lee takes a peek too!

Wee Kiong attempts an alignment

Feng Ling and Wee Kiong trying out the Meade LX200 as a platform for the coronado scope.

Mr Au receives his lifetime achievement award...

boothee · Post by **boothee** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 8:32 am

Wow... Many people, many equipments . . .
Thanks for sharing pictures...
hope to see more pictures

boothee

zackae · Post by **zackae** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:46 am

haha my pop's taking a view at the sun!

Post by **Airconvent** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:02 pm

boothee wrote:Wow... Many people, many equipments . . .
Thanks for sharing pictures...
hope to see more pictures

boothee

Hi Boothee
We saw your parents there yesterday and helped them take some photos too.
They are nice people....A pity you could not join us !

Post by **Airconvent** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:04 pm

zackae wrote:haha my pop's taking a view at the sun!

oh...so that was your dad ! :-)