Stargazing for Beginners - SAFRA Jurong- 20 April (Sat)

[Gary]

My friends and I will be conducting a free public stargazing + talk at SAFRA Jurong on 20 April 2013 (Saturday). From 7:45pm till late. No pre-registration required.



Location of SAFRA Jurong:

Official website: http://www.safra.sg

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- Near Boon Lay MRT / Bus Interchange. From there, walk towards Jurong Central Park direction.

- Free car-parking right at the observation site and power supply for telescope volunteers. The cash-card deduction at entrance will be reimbursed on that night.

- Telescope volunteers who are keen to participate, please PM or email me at gary[at]astro.sg.

- Carpark is just below the observation spot. Just take a lift up. Easy to transport big telescopes with a trolley.

- Car parking fees for public - $1.66 (SAFRA members), $3.45 (non-members). From 6:00pm onward.

- We can stay there at least up to 3:00am the next morning.

- Function room for the talk can easily accommodate 60 pax and if need be, slide off the partition to accommodate more and project the presentation on 2 big screens at the same time.

- Thanks to the publicity and marketing prowess of SAFRA, response has been great so far base on the phone queries and sign-ups as of today. This is a free event with no pre-registration required. So last minute walk-in crowd are most welcomed too.

- The observatory-class 14-inch diameter Celestron C14 will be there among other telescopes of various design and sizes!

- If you have the time, do consider bringing your family and friends there earlier and enjoy the club facilities there. Mahjong at a private games room anyone? More info about SAFRA Jurong: http://goo.gl/kcByn

My friends staying in the west and north-west have been very supportive of promoting stargazing awareness in Toa Payoh/Bishan over the years. It's about time for us to return them a small favour. Hope to see some of the big guns and cannons during this event.

[Gary]

Added more info in the first post.

[fizzy123]

Wow.......... A talk in SAFRA, will drop by and support

[Gary]

Wow.......... A talk in SAFRA, will drop by and support

Thanks! Do consider coming early and enjoy their other facilities.

[Gary]

Added the following updates to the first post:

- Free car-parking right at the observation site and power supply for telescope volunteers. The cash-card deduction at entrance will be reimbursed on that night.

- Telescope volunteers who are keen to participate, please PM or email me at gary[at]astro.sg.

- Carpark is just below the observation spot. Just take a lift up. Easy to transport big telescopes with a trolley.

- Car parking fees for public - $1.66 (SAFRA members), $3.45 (non-members). From 6:00pm onward.

- We can stay there at least up to 3:00am the next morning.

- Function room for the talk can easily accommodate 60 pax and if need be, slide off the partition to accommodate more and project the presentation on 2 big screens at the same time.

- Thanks to the publicity and marketing prowess of SAFRA, response has been great so far base on the phone queries and sign-ups as of today. This is a free event with no pre-registration required. So last minute walk-in crowd are most welcomed too.

- The observatory-class 14-inch diameter Celestron C14 will be there among other telescopes or various design and sizes!

- If you have the time, do consider bringing your family and friends there earlier and enjoy the club facilities there. Mahjong at a private games room anyone? More info about SAFRA Jurong: http://goo.gl/kcByn

[Gary]

All set and ready for the event tonight! Looking forward to catching up with my friends and their telescopes.

As usual, for the latest updates, in the event I do not have time to update this thread, read my tweets on twitter or from my blog.

[Gary]

This is the multi-purpose court where we will deploy our telescopes and conduct live stargazing sessions tonight.

All lights within the control of SAFRA Jurong will be switched off at this court.

[Traveler]

Thanks Gary for organising another successful event. The turnout was great! Looking forward to more sessions in future

[antares2063]

thanks for organising Gary, first time meeting up in person, and catching up with Traveler and some old astro friends

Regards,
Junwei

[Gary]

Thanks for the support Traveler and Junwei!

Big thanks to SAFRA Jurong for organising the event - very professionally managed! They are extremely glad and surprised by the huge turnout. Should have more opportunities to collaborate with SAFRA for future events.

Sky was clear enough to observe Moon and Saturn after the light late afternoon drizzle. Nearer to midnight, the sky was getting clearer and managed to observe Omega Centauri and Jewel Box too.

My heartfelt thanks to all participants especially the telescope volunteers and helpers. Have not seen so many telescopes turning up for an astro event in Singapore for a while. Had a great time catching up with old friends and making new ones!

Will upload some pics when I have the time to process them since it is more fun and important to spread the word about the Lyrid Meteor Shower and preparing for the upcoming Saturn opposition events this coming weekend. And watching NEAF videos of course.