Hi,
I will be having an observation session tonight (13 May 2004) at around 20:00 on the grass field near Tampines Stadium car park. I will be there till around 10pm depend on weather. Hope the weather is good tonight
Have a nice day.
13 May 2004: Observation Session
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13 May 2004: Observation Session
Yang Weixing
"The universe is composed mainly of hydrogen and ignorance."
"The universe is composed mainly of hydrogen and ignorance." 
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Hi,
You can point your bino at procyon and shift diagonally toward the top right of procyon. Or if you can find M44 (Beehive Cluster), it is at the bottom left of M44. You should see a small blur star... that is the comet NEAT. Anyway, if you want to see the comet, you can join my observation session tomorrow or saturday night (depend on weather).
Anyway, the sky tonight was clear at 20:00, but there is a soccer match going in the stadium, so the sky was super light polluted. But I still can easily see the comet NEAT, M44 (fix nicely in my Field of View... very nice), M67 (hardly visible), Omega Centauri and etc.
My observation session was slightly cut short when the cloud start to flood in after the soccer match end. But as per normal, the sky start to clear up after I pack up everything...
Anyway, I hope that Friday (14 May 2004) and Saturday(15 May 2004) night will be good, so that can have a longer observation session.
By the way, anyone saw Venus tonight... it was SUPER BRIGHT... so bright that it look like the illum round fire by a motar!!
Have a nice day.
You can point your bino at procyon and shift diagonally toward the top right of procyon. Or if you can find M44 (Beehive Cluster), it is at the bottom left of M44. You should see a small blur star... that is the comet NEAT. Anyway, if you want to see the comet, you can join my observation session tomorrow or saturday night (depend on weather).
Anyway, the sky tonight was clear at 20:00, but there is a soccer match going in the stadium, so the sky was super light polluted. But I still can easily see the comet NEAT, M44 (fix nicely in my Field of View... very nice), M67 (hardly visible), Omega Centauri and etc.
My observation session was slightly cut short when the cloud start to flood in after the soccer match end. But as per normal, the sky start to clear up after I pack up everything...
Anyway, I hope that Friday (14 May 2004) and Saturday(15 May 2004) night will be good, so that can have a longer observation session.
By the way, anyone saw Venus tonight... it was SUPER BRIGHT... so bright that it look like the illum round fire by a motar!!
Have a nice day.
Yang Weixing
"The universe is composed mainly of hydrogen and ignorance."
"The universe is composed mainly of hydrogen and ignorance." 
Hi folks:
Venus was bright - yes.. I thought yester night was v bright as well. Looks like a 'lantern'.... hanging there.....read somewhere it can cast shadow... ( i rememberd in Korea - a blinding super bright fire ball really cast shadow - like some one firing a flash-gun..)
Just for the record...yet another Neat pic for the night..
http://www.ykchia.com/southern_sky_iii.htm
Small crowds gathered to join in the 'fun' .. So I started the one- the- spot constellation recognisation - here is the Crux.. notice the three bright starts.... and opposite is the Ursa Major ( in Mandarin..) ..the big bright one directly overhead is Jupiter while the bright star in the west is Sirius... and the comet is there somewhere - you can't see easily with the naked eye... and .... the blinking yellow icon from the sony videowalkman.... means my battery is running out....and I am going home... Ha Ha
rgds
ykchia
Venus was bright - yes.. I thought yester night was v bright as well. Looks like a 'lantern'.... hanging there.....read somewhere it can cast shadow... ( i rememberd in Korea - a blinding super bright fire ball really cast shadow - like some one firing a flash-gun..)
Just for the record...yet another Neat pic for the night..
http://www.ykchia.com/southern_sky_iii.htm
Small crowds gathered to join in the 'fun' .. So I started the one- the- spot constellation recognisation - here is the Crux.. notice the three bright starts.... and opposite is the Ursa Major ( in Mandarin..) ..the big bright one directly overhead is Jupiter while the bright star in the west is Sirius... and the comet is there somewhere - you can't see easily with the naked eye... and .... the blinking yellow icon from the sony videowalkman.... means my battery is running out....and I am going home... Ha Ha
rgds
ykchia