Toa Payoh Sidewalk Astronomy tonight outside Courts - 18 Jun

[Gary]

Weather permitting, I will be conducting a sidewalk astronomy session at Toa Payoh Central tonight.

Date: Thursday 22 Nov 2012
Time: From 10:00 PM onwards
Venue: Open space in front of Toa Payoh Public Library [Google Map] [Street View]

Primary focus: Moon, 7 Sisters, Jupiter, Orion Nebula. Jupiter GRS around midnight. Europa shadow transit around 2:30am. I should be staying up till about 3am if the Jupiter remains visible.

I will be bringing a 5-inch telescope.

Come join in the fun with or without telescope! Feel free to chat with us about Astronomy!

[Gary]

Weather permitting, I will be conducting a sidewalk astronomy session at Toa Payoh Central tonight.

Date: Thursday 6 Dec 2012
Time: From 9:00 PM onwards
Venue: Open space in front of Toa Payoh Public Library [Google Map] [Street View]

Primary focus: 7 Sisters, Jupiter, Orion Nebula.

I will be bringing a 5-inch telescope.

Come join in the fun with or without telescope! Feel free to chat with us about Astronomy!

[shirox]

weather looks good!

[Airconvent]

Hi Gary
Wow..the weather is great tonight. So many stars! One of the best in a while. Sorry I was not able to join in again. Saw the post only now but then again, was busy tonight
Hope you had a great session!

[Gary]

No worries Richard. Jupiter is still clear now. Binoviewing it at 304x. Best GRS I have seen in this mak-newt!

[Airconvent]

Wow...the session went on till at least 2 am? Its must have been clear skies! Enjoy the rest of the evening (or morning!)

[Gary]

Yes Richard. Actually 4am+. Was about to pack up at 3am when a few fastfood delivery guys specifically came to take a look at what I was looking at. Hard to turn them away as the sky was still clear. Showed them M45, the whole Orion's sword, Jupiter and Moon through the MN56. Minds were blown.

Here are some pics of last night/this morning session that I had tweeted:

[Gary]

Weather permitting, I will be conducting a sidewalk astronomy session at Toa Payoh Central tonight.

Date: Thursday 27 Dec 2012
Time: From 10:45 PM onwards
Venue: Open space in front of McDonald's above Toa Payoh MRT Station

Primary focus: Jupiter and Moon

I will be bringing a 5-inch telescope.

Come join in the fun with or without telescope! Feel free to chat with us about Astronomy!

[orly_andico]

Thanks to Gary I was able to catch the double shadow transit from my balcony.

[Gary]

Nice shot Orly! What scope and camera used?

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Thanks to Clifford for keeping me company. We had a good binoview of the double shadow transit from start to finish.

Binoviewing moon was fun too. Always interesting to see the lunar features right at the edges of the librating Moon. A group of friends was having a mini birthday celebration at the next table. Manage to give them a mini sky tour and helped them to shoot the Moon with their mobile phones.

This is my Moon shot using my phone camera. Mak127 + 32mm + ND filter + mobile app's high contrast filter: