Hi everyone !!
SPastro and NPastro have come together to do a sidewalk at Vivo City !! We will also be supported by Galaxy CC Astronomy Club.
On behalf on all the clubs involved we would like to invite all Singastro members to come down and join us. We would also be glad if any members are interested to bring down their own scope.
If anyone is intending to bring your scope down, please do inform me and take note that there is no power supply nearby.
Date: 28 april 2013 - Sunday
Time : 6.30pm - 9pm
Venue: Vivo City , open area outside food republic
If you need more information, contact me at 81336728 or lee.junjiemelcolm@gmail.com
Hope to see you there !
Vivo City Polyastro Sidewalk - (28 april 2013)
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melcolmlee
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Re: Vivo City Polyastro Sidewalk - (28 april 2013)
Great initiative! Will try to make it but can only confirm very last minute on that weekend.
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email: gary[at]astro.sg
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"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: Vivo City Polyastro Sidewalk - (28 april 2013)
will be there to support. great for family gathering too. guess some of the usual mersing crew will be there as well! see you!
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Re: Vivo City Polyastro Sidewalk - (28 april 2013)
Was there this evening without my scope because I saw that the cloud cover was 100% like the whole day. Imagine my surprise when it partially cleared up to yield good views of Jupiter and Saturn! Had a good time talking to many people. Hopefully some will take up astronomy!
Thanks to Melcom and the gang from SP, NP and all those participating schools including Galaxy CC who set up the event. The cloudy skies aside, I would say we had a good turn out and I managed to catch up with old friends like Junwei etc. Congrats to the organising team for a successful event and thanks for inviting us too!
Thanks to Melcom and the gang from SP, NP and all those participating schools including Galaxy CC who set up the event. The cloudy skies aside, I would say we had a good turn out and I managed to catch up with old friends like Junwei etc. Congrats to the organising team for a successful event and thanks for inviting us too!
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Re: Vivo City Polyastro Sidewalk - (28 april 2013)
Thanks for the report Airconvent. Congrats to the organisers, telescope volunteers and helpers for creating astro awareness in a public place! Hope to see more of such sidewalks in the future.
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: Vivo City Polyastro Sidewalk - (28 april 2013)
It was a memorable event indeed!
I too had thought that it would likely be totally cloudy last night since that was the sky condition throughout the daytime. Fortunately, clear patches developed at around 7pm and it was partly clear/cloudy till 10pm when the event ended. We managed to show Jupiter and Saturn, plus some general stars when those planets were obscured.
For the record, the event was held on the night of Saturn's Opposition. I had great views of it through Moo Ey's 8" Portaball (formerly owned by VinSnr and Acc I think) and Kelvin's Tak [edit] Mewlon 210: the views were rock steady through the Tak at around 10pm when the seeing in our tropical skies was very steady.
Here is a photo of two young kids peeking through my scope at Jupiter. I think the organisers took lots of other photos.
I too had thought that it would likely be totally cloudy last night since that was the sky condition throughout the daytime. Fortunately, clear patches developed at around 7pm and it was partly clear/cloudy till 10pm when the event ended. We managed to show Jupiter and Saturn, plus some general stars when those planets were obscured.
For the record, the event was held on the night of Saturn's Opposition. I had great views of it through Moo Ey's 8" Portaball (formerly owned by VinSnr and Acc I think) and Kelvin's Tak [edit] Mewlon 210: the views were rock steady through the Tak at around 10pm when the seeing in our tropical skies was very steady.
Here is a photo of two young kids peeking through my scope at Jupiter. I think the organisers took lots of other photos.