last Friday night, while others traveled North to Mersing, KoKo and myself did our own observation at one of the multi storey car park, next to his place, just beside Admiralty MRT station.
You can see from the attachment , the 2 scopes we set up for the whole night observation, from 12am till 5am.
Beside there are lamp posts around, which makes the place not very dark, but this place has a 360 deg clear view, with the building from the East , less than 20 deg higher than horizontal level. The West suffers more , which is around 30 deg. North and South is around 20 deg.
And only 2 vehicles are parked at the top of the car park, so the place is quite open.
Our initial plan is just to test the 6SE , C6R F5 and the C80ed on Saturn.
But due to our late setup at 12am, Saturn sets behind the building an hour after our observation.
Then rather no choice but to slew the goto to other objects, since it is already sky aligned to 2 stars....Vega and Altair....
Surprisingly, we still managed to see M31, M57 and M4, not to say m13 , M22, M7 , etc.....
Uranus and Neptune is also in the view , when use the goto function....
And just regret did not bring the bigger scope......
We waited until 4am, when Jupiter appears on top of the block of HDB apartment. And we are able to use our scopes for comparison this time.
After one hour of observation at Jupiter, we packed up, and went home....
So in future, maybe we can do another one observing, but next time I will bring along a bigger one instead.
REgards
James Ling
