Probable Short Observation Session: 03 August 2004

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Probable Short Observation Session: 03 August 2004

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Hi,
Today weather (base on weather forecast and satellite map) seem quite promising, so I plan to have a short observation session tonight (03 August 2004) at around 20:30 on top of the multi-storey car park(Blk 842A) beside Blk 842E. Anyone who are interested can join me.

Hope the weather is good tonight

Have a nice day.
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hi weixing mmm :?
no such luck. when I left my office at 9.15 pm, I could see Vega, Altair ,Sagi and Scorpius clearly. I even thought I could make out the faint outline of the milky way...! But as I reached home..all of a sudden, the whole sky was covered in cirro cumulus clouds..oh well, let's hope the super long weekend we have this week will bear fruit in clear skies..

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Airconvent wrote:hi weixing mmm :?
no such luck. when I left my office at 9.15 pm, I could see Vega, Altair ,Sagi and Scorpius clearly. I even thought I could make out the faint outline of the milky way...! But as I reached home..all of a sudden, the whole sky was covered in cirro cumulus clouds..oh well, let's hope the super long weekend we have this week will bear fruit in clear skies..

rich
oh... the clouds managed to cleared from about 8pm++ till 10pm.
I was abt to go home after seeing the dark clouds about 7.30pm, but lucky, weixing suggested to stick around.

Hee hee.... all the way to the east was not wasted this time :)
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caught sight of jupiter, after that was all cirro cumulus :(
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Hi,
The weather on yesterday night was quite clear from 8pm till 10pm... only got some cloud which come and go until around 10:30pm where a big patch of cover cover the whole sky. Anyway, the seeing and transparency was also quite good.

Lagoon Nebula(M8 ) and Swan Nebula(M17) was quite obvious. So was using M17 to show Luke5v8 the effect of magnification and filter on Nebula.

Anyway, was quite happy with the sky yesterday and hope tonight will be better.

Have a nice day.
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Post by MooEy »

hoho, me and thomas(ph7) had our own share of fun at rp yesterday. managed to catch a few objects from 7.30-9.10pm. after that the whole sky is filled up with lots of "trifid neb".

after looking at my sky chart, i realise i was trying to find m57 around altair :x

anyway, another gd night today, anyone went obbing? let's hope tml remains the same or even better.

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