Ob @ Turf City on 25/5 (Friday) @ 10pm

Post by **rcj** » Sat May 26, 2007 11:53 am

encouraging turn-out Clifford!! Any photos of the place?

Clifford60 · Post by **Clifford60** » Sat May 26, 2007 12:21 pm

Didn't bring camera.

May be the gurus can comments. However, I do remember 1 statement made, definitely can replace Dempsey. For sure there are many very big opening spaces over there that we can ob. Car parks, fields (many of them) will recce another field on the top of section of the Google pic (1st post), look much darker when we drove by last night and it is nearer to the entrance.

Post by **zong** » Sat May 26, 2007 5:36 pm

Yup, there are quite a number of places that we can do ob at. The field was tested yesterday night. It was great, except for the moon that someone needs to install a switch on to turn it off..

There were a few comments that the ob site should be accessible by cars ie. near to their cars, so that they can take more things along (more eps, binos, stuff?) It is possible in the previous ob site at a semi-abandoned carpark, however the only problem is that we can only ob there after 11pm, because there's one or two floodlights that stay on until about 11pm. We joked that we could be there at 1045 and have 15min "scope setting up time" before the lights turned off!

It's great that we found another nice place again. Hopefully, we can use its accessibility to our advantage, and make this both as our sanctuary and as a public obs ground to increase people's awareness of the night sky.

Area503 · Post by **Area503** » Sat May 26, 2007 6:13 pm

Hi guys, jiayi here.
Turf city was great. It has been a while since i tried to find M4 with my 4.5inch reflector in other parts of mainland Singapore, and couldn't find it due to light pollution even without the moon. However, at yesterday session, i just point my scope to the area and there it was. And all this with a moon hanging around, i could barely wait to see how is the sky without the moon. =)

p.s. I now know why people dun usually collimate their reflectors. Cos when they do, the image is not perfectly collimated, when they dun, the image is perfect... kind of weird.... and i didn't collimate the scope last night... =)

Post by **weixing** » Sat May 26, 2007 6:19 pm

Hi,
Seem like a very nice site. May be can hold a SingAstro overnight Star Party there sometime in the future!!

I now know why people dun usually collimate their reflectors. Cos when they do, the image is not perfectly collimated, when they dun, the image is perfect... kind of weird.... and i didn't collimate the scope last night... =)

Err... All should collimate their reflector every time they use it... if you don't, you are not getting the full potential of the scope... but some reflector can hold the collimation quite well and you can still get very decent image even you don't collimate.

Have a nice day.

Post by **acc** » Sat May 26, 2007 9:36 pm

The skies weren't great last nite but the company was fun and we were glad to have found a new place for our future ob sessions. Thanks to Clifford & company for making the arrangements!

wucheeyiun · Post by **wucheeyiun** » Sat May 26, 2007 10:15 pm

It was a nice session, and chee chien's portaball is really impressive

Canopus Lim · Post by **Canopus Lim** » Sat May 26, 2007 10:16 pm

Other than the moon, is the place very dark (as in no nearby lights)? How does it compare with Lim Chu Kang or Changi area?

mrngbss · Post by **mrngbss** » Sat May 26, 2007 10:22 pm

acc wrote:The skies weren't great last nite but the company was fun and we were glad to have found a new place for our future ob sessions. Thanks to Clifford & company for making the arrangements!

Yes, all thanks to Clifford and company. Good effort!

wucheeyiun · Post by **wucheeyiun** » Sat May 26, 2007 10:26 pm

Lim Chu Kang lane 1a is certainly darker...but for city location, turf club is a more convenient....