Saturn Opposition 2007

Post by **weixing** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:01 pm

Hi,
Anyone organizing any event on this coming Saturn Opposition (10 Feb 2007)??

Have a nice day.

Post by **acc** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:03 pm

Well we can organise an ob session at some convenient location. Tiong Bahru Park again?

ariefm71 · Post by **ariefm71** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:35 pm

any other places with less lightings?

Canopus Lim · Post by **Canopus Lim** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:53 pm

Won't Saturn be quite low at the 'convenient' time for the public? At 10pm it is about 40 degree above horizon.

I will not be able to make it as I am overseas. Perhaps I get a chance to look through a Zeiss 12inch refractor at an observatory there. Heard that the queue to look through it is very long.

Post by **weixing** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:23 pm

Hi,

I will not be able to make it as I am overseas. Perhaps I get a chance to look through a Zeiss 12inch refractor at an observatory there.

So you going to Los Angeles??

Have a nice day.

ariefm71 · Post by **ariefm71** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:43 pm

Hi,

Quote:I will not be able to make it as I am overseas. Perhaps I get a chance to look through a Zeiss 12inch refractor at an observatory there.

So you going to Los Angeles??

Have a nice day.

Can tompang an 8" TEC Mak when you go back to SG?

Canopus Lim · Post by **Canopus Lim** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:37 pm

Yup I am going to LA. Sorry, I don't have space to carry a telescope as I am already carrying back an observing chair!

MooEy · Post by **MooEy** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 5:42 am

eh, stay on the topic.

10th feb is a nice weekend. just b4 the valentine day. i bet alot of people will be more impressed by saturn than mars. given the short notice and unpredictable weather, hard to confirm anything now. will help ask ard and see how things goes.

tentatively, one of our option would be tiong bahru park as suggested by acc.

if anyone can get us another location, do post here. since time is short, stick to those locations that u confirm can get, not throw me 5634757856 suggestion for places u can't get.

~MooEy~

cataclysm · Post by **cataclysm** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:40 am

Well we can organise an ob session at some convenient location. Tiong Bahru Park again?

Open field near the Red Hill MRT is more ideal. Just a stone throw from Tiong Bahru Park.

rlow · Post by **rlow** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:42 pm

For these places, perhaps someone can check if the Eastern sky is visible from at least 40 degrees upwards and not block by trees.