Sidewalk Astronomy (Obs) on Sat 22nd May, at Marina Barrage
From various messages, I get the impression that there are going to be 2 different sessions - one at ECP tonight and another at MB tomorrow.
My understanding is that the one at ECP tonight is just the normal obs session while the one at MB tomorrow is the sidewalk, open for public. Is my understanding correct?
My understanding is that the one at ECP tonight is just the normal obs session while the one at MB tomorrow is the sidewalk, open for public. Is my understanding correct?
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dragoncai2008
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Last night's event was a resounding success for the observation group at the ecp carpark C4/D1. Met some veteran star-gazers for the first time like clifford and also new members like CaImmrts and DragonCai. The southern skies were extremely clear except for moments of interruption by fleeting low altitude clouds. In fact, last night was one of the clearest for SG considering that it had been raining for all this while. There were 2 scopes present, a 8 inch newtonian and a 8 inch newtonian/cassegrain hybrid and clifford brought along his giant 25X100 binos and also a smaller bino by HK grandeye.
The singastro folks there were clifford, Guangwei, Caleb, Donis, Kevin family, Remus. Something to mention about clifford's Grandeye bino, it really gave the celestial objects a 3D feel especially the moon, felt as if it is just in-front of you and you can grab hold of it; not like other binos that have a very "fake, cut out of magazine" view. Well, next time any newbie complain that binos are no good for astro, just let them view through this little device and it will blow their mind away. As for the giant bino, it is easy to operate and searching for DSOs is just a breeze with it's large FOV. The views in the bino are very much brighter than the telescopes no doubt not being able to resolve the individual stars. In fact, playing around with the giant bino was the most fun and yet memorable event for last night's stargazing.
The DSO sen that night were mainly from scorpious, saggitarius, centaurus, crux and carina. Some DSO are un-verifiable as we do not have atlases at hands. The other DSOs are more famous ones and those that I can recall, such as Jewel Box, NGC5139, M22, M6, M7, M4, IC2602, NGC3114, H12, Cr316, Tr24, NGC6231, and many more.
As for Caleb, I went back to check wikipedia and I would correct what I told you yesterday. It is not just Australia and New Zealand that have the southern cross on their national flag. Apparently, Papau New Guniea, Brazil and Samoa, Tokelau also have that nice little southern icon on their national flags. Lets hope that tonight's event at the MB will also be a great success. Cheers... and clear skies.
The singastro folks there were clifford, Guangwei, Caleb, Donis, Kevin family, Remus. Something to mention about clifford's Grandeye bino, it really gave the celestial objects a 3D feel especially the moon, felt as if it is just in-front of you and you can grab hold of it; not like other binos that have a very "fake, cut out of magazine" view. Well, next time any newbie complain that binos are no good for astro, just let them view through this little device and it will blow their mind away. As for the giant bino, it is easy to operate and searching for DSOs is just a breeze with it's large FOV. The views in the bino are very much brighter than the telescopes no doubt not being able to resolve the individual stars. In fact, playing around with the giant bino was the most fun and yet memorable event for last night's stargazing.
The DSO sen that night were mainly from scorpious, saggitarius, centaurus, crux and carina. Some DSO are un-verifiable as we do not have atlases at hands. The other DSOs are more famous ones and those that I can recall, such as Jewel Box, NGC5139, M22, M6, M7, M4, IC2602, NGC3114, H12, Cr316, Tr24, NGC6231, and many more.
As for Caleb, I went back to check wikipedia and I would correct what I told you yesterday. It is not just Australia and New Zealand that have the southern cross on their national flag. Apparently, Papau New Guniea, Brazil and Samoa, Tokelau also have that nice little southern icon on their national flags. Lets hope that tonight's event at the MB will also be a great success. Cheers... and clear skies.
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Clifford60
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See you guys tonight at MB. 
Unless rain, will be there, cloud still can see something up there.
Unless rain, will be there, cloud still can see something up there.
Last edited by Clifford60 on Sat May 22, 2010 5:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.
