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hmm.. skies looks gd, anyone care to ob?
~MooEy~
another reasonable clear night 11/9/04
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Tried to. Noticed the good sky too. Asked samuel out, set up shop, and we're on..
Found m22, m7. Rest of scorpius was covered in clouds..
Found Albiero, the double star in Cygnus. Great sight!
Failed ring nebula and m29 (i think) in cygnus. The clouds like to make fun of me, every time i sit down the clouds disperse, and when i start searching in the scope the clouds come in again.. ARGH :? :? :?
Found m22, m7. Rest of scorpius was covered in clouds..
Found Albiero, the double star in Cygnus. Great sight!
Failed ring nebula and m29 (i think) in cygnus. The clouds like to make fun of me, every time i sit down the clouds disperse, and when i start searching in the scope the clouds come in again.. ARGH :? :? :?
ok for me slighty better. set up my toy scope at that playground again at 9pm.
went for m7 and m6 again. seeing wasn't as gd as on wednesday. m7 doesn't show enough stars to fill the fov this time.
decided to go for alberio as recommended by richard. first stop, vega. when i reach there, i found quite a few sets of doubles, including the double double. but no eyepiece to split the double double >.<
managed to reach alberio, ahhh nice pair of double, one slighty blue star on the left of a red star. it seems that they are quite far apart since they are splited in my tv 20(24x). the rest of the field is filled up with stars, guess that's because of the milky way.
went back to sagi for another tour. took down m28 immediately. small little fuzzy ball.
went to m54 again to see if i can find it again. pointed at the bottom left of star of the teapot, pan around in my 20mm and managed to catch a fuzzy. looks like a defocus star(at 24x, everything looks so small). in went my 7.5mm, managed to make out a little bit of it's round shape.
moved up, managed to catch m25, lots of tiny little stars. size seems to be abt the same as m6.
moved up even more, found some white fuzzy patches, must be one of the nebulaes. glancing thru my finder, i believed i have hit m16, the eagle neb.
by now i notice that my views are getting dimmer and dimmer. at first i thought it might be due to clouds, but i looked up, not much clouds. took out my hp and shine light on my eyepiece. yikes!! dewing already. my tv 20 gave up for the night, had to replace it with my le30.
went back to m8 for a quick peep. managed to make out a little bit of the star cluster and neb. everything seems so small in my le 30, skyglow is so pronounced. bah nvm.
flip my book to the next page, north skies. hmm.. seems like lots of jewels near deneb. turn my scope over and try my luck. wanted to try m29, but couldn't locate. there are so many stars in my fov, too confusing.
11pm, everything started to get wet, including my book and my finder. decided to call it a night
6am, woke up and went for a pee, then glance out of my window, yikes, 2 big spot. immediately set up my toy scope by the window. one crescent moon, one venus and saturn is just above the 2 of them.
~MooEy~
went for m7 and m6 again. seeing wasn't as gd as on wednesday. m7 doesn't show enough stars to fill the fov this time.
decided to go for alberio as recommended by richard. first stop, vega. when i reach there, i found quite a few sets of doubles, including the double double. but no eyepiece to split the double double >.<
managed to reach alberio, ahhh nice pair of double, one slighty blue star on the left of a red star. it seems that they are quite far apart since they are splited in my tv 20(24x). the rest of the field is filled up with stars, guess that's because of the milky way.
went back to sagi for another tour. took down m28 immediately. small little fuzzy ball.
went to m54 again to see if i can find it again. pointed at the bottom left of star of the teapot, pan around in my 20mm and managed to catch a fuzzy. looks like a defocus star(at 24x, everything looks so small). in went my 7.5mm, managed to make out a little bit of it's round shape.
moved up, managed to catch m25, lots of tiny little stars. size seems to be abt the same as m6.
moved up even more, found some white fuzzy patches, must be one of the nebulaes. glancing thru my finder, i believed i have hit m16, the eagle neb.
by now i notice that my views are getting dimmer and dimmer. at first i thought it might be due to clouds, but i looked up, not much clouds. took out my hp and shine light on my eyepiece. yikes!! dewing already. my tv 20 gave up for the night, had to replace it with my le30.
went back to m8 for a quick peep. managed to make out a little bit of the star cluster and neb. everything seems so small in my le 30, skyglow is so pronounced. bah nvm.
flip my book to the next page, north skies. hmm.. seems like lots of jewels near deneb. turn my scope over and try my luck. wanted to try m29, but couldn't locate. there are so many stars in my fov, too confusing.
11pm, everything started to get wet, including my book and my finder. decided to call it a night
6am, woke up and went for a pee, then glance out of my window, yikes, 2 big spot. immediately set up my toy scope by the window. one crescent moon, one venus and saturn is just above the 2 of them.
~MooEy~
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Hi,
Had a long observation session with clement, wei kang and JohnTeh last night. The sky was slight hazy and part cloudy at first, but as the night goes on, the sky become very clear.
Beside the usual objects, we manage to see following objects:
1. M45 - very bright and fit in my newtonian FOV nicely
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2. M42/43 - No wonder it is call The Great Orion Nebula!! This is the first time I use my 6" Newtonian on this object. The view can be describe by only one word Spectacular - the brightest part of the nebula can still fit in my FOV at 214x! :o ,
3. NGC 104 (47 Tucanae) - my greatest reward of the night, the globular cluster in Constellation Tucana. It is the second largest and second brightest globular cluster in the skies... Very Impressive :o .
Too bad, still unable to see the Small Magellanice Cloud which is just beside the NGC 104
.
Anyway, we end our observation session at 3am... the sky was still very clear at that time, but we feel a bit tired. If you wonder where we were observing, it is at the beach at Marina South near Car Park B
. It got an unobstructed and nearly light pollution free view of east and south east direction.The north and west was quite light polluted, but we found out that the sky glow was greatly reduced as the night goes... may be because the sky was very clear.
Have a nice day.
Had a long observation session with clement, wei kang and JohnTeh last night. The sky was slight hazy and part cloudy at first, but as the night goes on, the sky become very clear.
Beside the usual objects, we manage to see following objects:
1. M45 - very bright and fit in my newtonian FOV nicely
,2. M42/43 - No wonder it is call The Great Orion Nebula!! This is the first time I use my 6" Newtonian on this object. The view can be describe by only one word Spectacular - the brightest part of the nebula can still fit in my FOV at 214x! :o ,
3. NGC 104 (47 Tucanae) - my greatest reward of the night, the globular cluster in Constellation Tucana. It is the second largest and second brightest globular cluster in the skies... Very Impressive :o .
Too bad, still unable to see the Small Magellanice Cloud which is just beside the NGC 104
.Anyway, we end our observation session at 3am... the sky was still very clear at that time, but we feel a bit tired. If you wonder where we were observing, it is at the beach at Marina South near Car Park B
. It got an unobstructed and nearly light pollution free view of east and south east direction.The north and west was quite light polluted, but we found out that the sky glow was greatly reduced as the night goes... may be because the sky was very clear. Have a nice day.
Yang Weixing
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yes... I noticed the clear sky at 3.30am and sms all the traditional hard core singastroians but seems like most have turned in..so I did too...
Later managed to talk to Weixing and learnt what a productive night he had...tempted to join in and see how good this site really is....what's more, its at the "Classic" Singastro obs site...Marina South
Tonight looked promising before the clouds moved in....sigh...
rich
Later managed to talk to Weixing and learnt what a productive night he had...tempted to join in and see how good this site really is....what's more, its at the "Classic" Singastro obs site...Marina South
Tonight looked promising before the clouds moved in....sigh...
rich
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