Bornfree's bedroom obs

[bornfree]

of course!! plus, there is a halo very tight around the moon... all the more to try take a picture of it. with a newly acquired 2nd hand camera..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/108332868@ ... 726310086/

still, my target is to use my note2 to frame the 7 sisters.. not sure if that is possible. only time will tell...

[bornfree]

last night ended with a peek at orion and sirus and jupiter. a short bino view for 10 minutes before hitting the sack....

at 3:30 am, for some God knows what reason, i was awake. i lumbered towards the window and saw mars peeping just above the top of my next block roof top's water tank. immediately, bino were out and God, were the skies clear. hopes for a peek at ison rose and i started camping out first in my bedroom then at the corridor.

from my bedroom, i peep towards the south as i saw an awkward "cross" which was huge. it turned out to be vela and carina's meeting point. to the right of the bright orange star in Carina, i saw a nice cluster of 7 bright stars and a bunch of tiny stars.. i think this is the south pleaides. need a proper star map to confirm, but no matter, looking higher and i saw alot more stars a whole star field that left me drooling most of the pre-dawn morning...

sadly, as dawn approaches, so did the clouds.. i had to call it a day... at least for now, the clouds look great in the dawn sky.. a view i have missed for many years..

[antares2063]

I think u spotted it aha...it was the the left of the big cross and lower abit yeah ? IC 2602 aka southern pleaides

[bornfree]

yup, this is the shape

[Gary]

@bornfree - You are slowly developing your subconscious clear sky waking up ability. Nice ob report! Sky was clear indeed!

[bornfree]

for the past few days of clear nights.. tried to take some pictures of Orion. Straight from the camera to flickr, no edit, nothing.. i dont have PS and know nothing about how to use it.
here are some of the noob shots. at least let those professionals be reminded of the time long ago when they first took their shots and got happy with the results they got~

http://www.flickr.com/photos/108332868@ ... 046506804/

first one or two were taken without a tripod, then found a small one and managed to prop it up on the rails of the window still and not let it fall over the edge..
these were taken to experiment on the ISO, shutter speed and aperture settings. on full manual mode. as well as taken with a 2 sec timer and there is one which is taken with a 10 consecutive shots.

[Gary]

Nice shots of Orion! I did a quick edit on one of them, hope you don't mind:

[bornfree]

nice~ thanks for toning down the white noise..

[bornfree]

After a great time with Gary and gang @ Toa Payoh, i came home to see the skies still so clear! I took out my bino to view the skies. the whole east to south east to the south was a great! saw the crux mars and spica and took alot of pictures with the DSLR..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/108332868@ ... 312543554/

[Gary]

After a great time with Gary and gang @ Toa Payoh, i came home to see the skies still so clear! I took out my bino to view the skies. the whole east to south east to the south was a great! saw the crux mars and spica and took alot of pictures with the DSLR..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/108332868@ ... 312543554/

Nice photos of the southern constellations! Once again, the usefulness and ultra-portability of a pair of binocular for stargazing should not be underestimated!