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Surprisingly, the cloud invasion ended dramatically and the southern sky cleared pretty well (at least in the central/western parts) around 10pm as wind blew the clouds away. Managed to get a view of the southern cross, and a rather faint jewel box briefly from my 'private' observation deck on the M...

No joy if the skies are anything like the last 2 evenings. Need a 'Pied piper of Singapore' to drag the clouds away!

Would like to share some information I found on NASA's website... THE FOLLOWING ISS SIGHTINGS ARE POSSIBLE FROM WED JUN 09 TO THU JUN 24 SATELLITE LOCAL DURATION MAX ELEV APPROACH DEPARTURE DATE/TIME (MIN) (DEG) (DEG-DIR) (DEG-DIR) ISS Tue Jun 22/08:24 PM < 1 16 16 above SSW 16 above SSW ISS Wed Jun...

Wish you many happy returns of the day, Tim!!

Hi, I'm not sure why some say that EQ mount is difficult to use. Yes, it take longer to setup, but not difficult to use... also, it can make star hopping a lot easier for beginner by making use of the RA and DEC axis when finding object using star chart. By the way, don't need to drift alignment fo...

Managed to get my first view of Jupiter and its 4 moons early this morning just before the clouds moved in. At 150x I think I saw a band in the top half (i.e. it appeared in the bottom half in my telescope). Is this where the band is supposed to be located? Is there supposed to be another band which...

Congrats Bharat!! Welcome to the world of 'weird' EQ mount syndrome and set everything up and clouds roll in!! haha! Read up on aligning processes and it's all practise. Thanks for your tips, Tim. After a couple of viewing sessions, I felt at a good accurate polar alignment could make viewing much ...

hi Bharat, where did you purchase the vixen half-pillar? or did it come with the Omni XLT? thanks... Vixen half pillar is not a part of Celestron's standard package but Astro Scientific include this as a part of their package. They say they are giving it "free" but from my perspective, th...

Finally got my new Celestron Omni XLT150 Newtonian! After some struggle, assembled the tripod-mount-scope on the top deck of a multistorey car park next to my block just in time to watch Venus before it disappeared behind trees. Last evening was a bit cloudy and may not have been the best for star g...

Inspired by some of the astrophotography pictures posted on this site, I decided to make an attempt in my own small way! With my Nikon D5000 mounted on a tripod (with the 18-55mm lens), I tried to shoot the Big Dipper. Alas! all that I managed to capture was an illuminated sky with the star appearin...