Alright, this is for sharing of your observation experience. Or, if you are arranging gatherings, star-gazing expeditions or just want some company to go observing together, you can shout it out here.
I'll be joining some NJC astro club members at East Coast Park between car parks C4 and D1 at midnight tonight to view the Perseids. All are welcome to join me.
Pls note that due to the full moon and the weather, I wonder whether we'll be even be able to see one meteor!
[80% Steve, 20% Alfred] ------- Probability of Clear Skies = (Age of newest equipment in days) / [(Number of observers) * (Total Aperture of all telescopes present in mm)]
I went for the overnight ob with my NJ juniors over at ECP yesterday night. Chris caught 2 meteors, i caught 2 also, but different ones, so we can be sure at least 4 were visible the whole night. All right, not a very good result but considering yesterday the sky was full of high clouds ALL throughout the night, catching 4 is quite lucky already!
It would be better, as i said, to watch the leonids and geminids. And i hope the skies wouldn't be this bad again..
C0MMAND wrote:Hmm wanted to go originally, but too tired and too late for public transport after I went for the Singapore Fireworks Festival thingy @ Esplanade... :?
I thought the SFF ended at 9.12pm ? (in fact, although they claimed 15 min, all of them lasted between 12-13 minutes at most....) that's late?
mmm...for astronomers, "late" means arriving at 5 am !
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See the radiant plot - where the x11 Pers radiated from. Even though my set up was centred at my southern facing window. Az=181d49min and altitude of 54d11min. The Pers streamed across the sky..
but considering yesterday the sky was full of high clouds ALL throughout the night, catching 4 is quite lucky already!
