Weather permitting, I will be conducting a sidewalk astronomy session at Toa Payoh Central tonight.
Date: Sun 8 July 2012
Time: From 7:45 PM onwards
Venue: Open space in front of Toa Payoh Public Library [Google Map] [Street View]
Primary focus: Saturn, star clusters at Scorpius and Sagittarius.
I will be bringing my 5-inch telescope.
Come join in the fun with or without telescope!
Those who do not wish to miss the premiere of Wonders of the Universe at 8.55pm on Starhub Ch407 can drop by after the show. If the sky is still clear, good chance we will be still there. Check my website/twitter for latest updates. Thanks!
Toa Payoh Sidewalk Astronomy tonight outside Courts - 18 Jun
Re: Sidewalk Astro @ Toa Payoh tonight - Sun 8 July 2012
http://www.astro.sg
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
Re: Sidewalk Astro @ Toa Payoh tonight - Wed 25 July 2012
Weather permitting, I will be conducting a sidewalk astronomy session at Toa Payoh Central tonight.
Date: Wed 25 July 2012
Time: From 7:30 PM onwards
Venue: Open space in front of Toa Payoh Public Library [Google Map] [Street View]
Primary focus: 1st Quarter Moon and Saturn, star clusters at Scorpius and Sagittarius.
I will be bringing my 5-inch telescope.
Come join in the fun with or without telescope!
Note: There is Getai event there tonight --> http://getai.stomp.com.sg/getai/. If we can't find a good spot there, may setup slightly towards to the durian store direction nearby or towards McDonald's area. Please check my website or twitter for the most updated info in the event I don't have the time to update this thread. Thanks.
Date: Wed 25 July 2012
Time: From 7:30 PM onwards
Venue: Open space in front of Toa Payoh Public Library [Google Map] [Street View]
Primary focus: 1st Quarter Moon and Saturn, star clusters at Scorpius and Sagittarius.
I will be bringing my 5-inch telescope.
Come join in the fun with or without telescope!
Note: There is Getai event there tonight --> http://getai.stomp.com.sg/getai/. If we can't find a good spot there, may setup slightly towards to the durian store direction nearby or towards McDonald's area. Please check my website or twitter for the most updated info in the event I don't have the time to update this thread. Thanks.
http://www.astro.sg
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
Re: Sidewalk Astro @ Toa Payoh tonight - Wed 8 August 2012
Weather permitting, I will be conducting a sidewalk astronomy session at Toa Payoh Central tonight.
Date: Wed 8 August 2012
Time: From 7:30 PM onwards
Venue: Open space in front of Toa Payoh Public Library [Google Map] [Street View]
Primary focus: Saturn and Mars, star clusters at Scorpius and Sagittarius.
I will be bringing my 5-inch telescope.
Come join in the fun with or without telescope! Feel free to chat with us about Astronomy!
Date: Wed 8 August 2012
Time: From 7:30 PM onwards
Venue: Open space in front of Toa Payoh Public Library [Google Map] [Street View]
Primary focus: Saturn and Mars, star clusters at Scorpius and Sagittarius.
I will be bringing my 5-inch telescope.
Come join in the fun with or without telescope! Feel free to chat with us about Astronomy!
http://www.astro.sg
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
Re: Sidewalk Astro @ Toa Payoh tonight - Wed 8 August 2012
Event is on tonight. Leaving my house soon. If the sky does not co-operate later, you can still come and chat astro with us face-to-face where we can explain things better and clearer with a telescope there for you learn some of these concepts hands on.
http://www.astro.sg
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
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Re: Sidewalk Astro @ Toa Payoh tonight - Wed 8 August 2012
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Re: Sidewalk Astro @ Toa Payoh tonight - Wed 8 August 2012
Hi Elton. Thanks for the encouragement and happy belated birthday to you. 
We had great session last night. Saturn, Spica, Mars forming an almost perfect triangle in the sky and the crowd was amaze it can still be seen despite the harsh lighting to our immediate left. That patch (and most probably the rest of the sky) was clear all the way from 7:30pm till they set. The Saturn queue was non-stop for hours. Seeing remain good throughout the night with cassini division and a couple of its moons clearly seen.
There is a tentage setup for an upcoming event so we have access to lots of chairs to sit down and observe comfortably. Special thanks to Clifford for coming down to help out with his 72mm refractor and later in the evening, pushing Moon to crazy magnifications with his quality eyepieces. Big thanks to Rlow for dropping by earlier in the evening and poison me with his special barlow+ep combo. That view of Saturn was the best I have seen for last night.
Some of you expected extra long queues because of the DL report before the sidewalk but I did not think so. I told some of you jokingly then that the Toa Payoh crowd reads WanBao and ShinMin papers rather than ST. So throughout the night, we did not hear anyone of them talk about the DL report. In fact it was the other way round. After they look through in our telescopes, we mention to them about the DL report. It does not bother us in anyway because getting media publicity or not, it was a good evening to do sidewalk anyway -- good sky, good human traffic, eve of public holiday. But no doubt, the DL report did give us an extra morale boost to engage the crowd even more.
Some interesting observations last night:
- A mother had a more dramatic reaction seeing Saturn compared to her children. There is a child in all of us indeed.
- For the first time, someone actually commented Saturn looked big in my 5 inch telescope! I suspect he was comparing the view with the small dot of light in the sky as seen with the naked eyes rather that memory of Saturn in books and magazines.
Lastly, a big shoutout the Bishan group for a job well done conducting another great sidewalk at Bishan Park!
We had great session last night. Saturn, Spica, Mars forming an almost perfect triangle in the sky and the crowd was amaze it can still be seen despite the harsh lighting to our immediate left. That patch (and most probably the rest of the sky) was clear all the way from 7:30pm till they set. The Saturn queue was non-stop for hours. Seeing remain good throughout the night with cassini division and a couple of its moons clearly seen.
There is a tentage setup for an upcoming event so we have access to lots of chairs to sit down and observe comfortably. Special thanks to Clifford for coming down to help out with his 72mm refractor and later in the evening, pushing Moon to crazy magnifications with his quality eyepieces. Big thanks to Rlow for dropping by earlier in the evening and poison me with his special barlow+ep combo. That view of Saturn was the best I have seen for last night.
Some of you expected extra long queues because of the DL report before the sidewalk but I did not think so. I told some of you jokingly then that the Toa Payoh crowd reads WanBao and ShinMin papers rather than ST.
So throughout the night, we did not hear anyone of them talk about the DL report. In fact it was the other way round. After they look through in our telescopes, we mention to them about the DL report. It does not bother us in anyway because getting media publicity or not, it was a good evening to do sidewalk anyway -- good sky, good human traffic, eve of public holiday. But no doubt, the DL report did give us an extra morale boost to engage the crowd even more.Some interesting observations last night:
- A mother had a more dramatic reaction seeing Saturn compared to her children. There is a child in all of us indeed.
- For the first time, someone actually commented Saturn looked big in my 5 inch telescope! I suspect he was comparing the view with the small dot of light in the sky as seen with the naked eyes rather that memory of Saturn in books and magazines.
Lastly, a big shoutout the Bishan group for a job well done conducting another great sidewalk at Bishan Park!
http://www.astro.sg
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
Re: Sidewalk Astro @ Toa Payoh tonight - Sun 19 August 2012
Selamat Hari Raya!
Weather permitting, I will be conducting a sidewalk astronomy session at Toa Payoh Central tonight.
Date: Sun 19 August 2012
Time: From 8:00 PM onwards
Venue: Open space in front of Toa Payoh Public Library [Google Map] [Street View]
Primary focus: Saturn and Mars, star clusters at Scorpius and Sagittarius.
I will be bringing my 5-inch telescope.
Come join in the fun with or without telescope! Feel free to chat with us about Astronomy!
Weather permitting, I will be conducting a sidewalk astronomy session at Toa Payoh Central tonight.
Date: Sun 19 August 2012
Time: From 8:00 PM onwards
Venue: Open space in front of Toa Payoh Public Library [Google Map] [Street View]
Primary focus: Saturn and Mars, star clusters at Scorpius and Sagittarius.
I will be bringing my 5-inch telescope.
Come join in the fun with or without telescope! Feel free to chat with us about Astronomy!
http://www.astro.sg
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
Re: Sidewalk Astro @ Toa Payoh tonight - Thu 23 August 2012
Weather permitting, I will be conducting a sidewalk astronomy session at Toa Payoh Central tonight.
Date: Thu 23 August 2012
Time: From 9:15 PM onwards
Venue: Open space in front of Toa Payoh Public Library [Google Map] [Street View]
Primary focus: Saturn and Mars, star clusters at Scorpius and Sagittarius.
I will be bringing my 5-inch telescope.
Come join in the fun with or without telescope! Feel free to chat with us about Astronomy!
Date: Thu 23 August 2012
Time: From 9:15 PM onwards
Venue: Open space in front of Toa Payoh Public Library [Google Map] [Street View]
Primary focus: Saturn and Mars, star clusters at Scorpius and Sagittarius.
I will be bringing my 5-inch telescope.
Come join in the fun with or without telescope! Feel free to chat with us about Astronomy!
http://www.astro.sg
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
Re: Sidewalk Astro @ Toa Payoh tonight - 1st Sept 2012
Weather permitting, I will be conducting a sidewalk astronomy session at Toa Payoh Central tonight.
Date: Sat 1st Sept 2012
Time: From 7:30 PM onwards
Venue: Open space in front of Toa Payoh Public Library [Google Map] [Street View]
Primary focus: Moon and Saturn, star clusters at Scorpius and Sagittarius.
I will be bringing my 5-inch telescope.
Come join in the fun with or without telescope! Feel free to chat with us about Astronomy! Let's see if the Moon is still blue tonight.
Date: Sat 1st Sept 2012
Time: From 7:30 PM onwards
Venue: Open space in front of Toa Payoh Public Library [Google Map] [Street View]
Primary focus: Moon and Saturn, star clusters at Scorpius and Sagittarius.
I will be bringing my 5-inch telescope.
Come join in the fun with or without telescope! Feel free to chat with us about Astronomy! Let's see if the Moon is still blue tonight.
http://www.astro.sg
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
Re: Sidewalk Astro @ Toa Payoh tonight - 1st Sept 2012
Cloudy skies now. Will make a decision again at 8pm.
http://www.astro.sg
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.