Besides Remus and the Poly gang, there was Charlie and his Ngee Ann group, chee chien, kay heem, ronald go, gavin, samuel ng, chung hooi, rinus, mr au, gary goh, jeremy shears, wira, shaun tay, etc. everyone was so hard core then.
I still remember helpful remus pointing my ETX90 at the Swan and both gary and myself simply could not make it out at all. of course now our eyes are better trained to look out for the nebulosity. Then there was eunos where remus showed me my very first view of a breathtaking Jupiter at x300 on his ex-Takahashi FC60....wow!
Today, many of these group has disappeared and moved on to other activities....I am beginning to see some truly hard core ones waning, too.
The relatively new members just popped in for a while before disppearing.
Singastro currently seems to have too many "comets" and not enough "mercuries"
about the only one still going strong is our current generation moderator, Weixing. He is so hard working that he is an inspiration to singastro.
Maybe we can all vote him as the most hardworking singastroian?!!
The poor sky contributed to the slowing down but I can't help but think that it was also contributed by the fragmentation of observing sites. Too many sites chasing too few people means the festival mood is no longer there.
how many of you remember marina south? it was far, yes, but people still lug the equipment by bus or mrt and converge there cos that's where the action is. ..
Samuel tells me the place is now a super brightly park...sigh...
Singastro 2004 gives a chance for everyone to rekindle their interest and to bring back the "Marina South Roar". Hope to be able to see the old timers like Gavin, Rinus, Kay Heem as well as the previous regulars like Charlie and shauntay mix with the next generation singastroians like wei xing, sam lee, arief ....will that happen?
Come on and let's join in !!
rich
