hommel wrote:Time really flies...in those days having a C5 was a big thing. And astro was also a lonely hobby back then. I first met kayheem was to pass him my telrad. Can't remember what I was doing at kayheem's place when i met gavin there.
Yup, Jeff was right. At that time, I thought I was one of the rare few in Singapore dabbling in astronomy!
I suppose things really started taking off with Singastro the yahoogroup, followed by Singastro the web forum.
After my interest was rekindled, i searched the web for astronomy shops and came across wee kiong. he introduced me to singastro where I joined my first session at eunos and peeked through remus's FC60 at 300x on Jupiter! I was directed to marina first but the location was changed to eunos at the last minute. there I also met chee chien and his "meat grinder" ETX90... ...and wira.
weeks later I purchased my first scope scope, an ETX90RA from Hommel (Jeff)...
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