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A fellow Malaysian living in Australia just got his capture featured in the media..
https://open.abc.net.au/explore/275976?v1 Superb shot!

Firefly. .. which galaxy does your Cosmic dust image belong to? You should label it properly in case people are wondering. :P

Cosmic dust? hahahha.. nice one.

Hi Chang, Mars is super bright for a while... and it is a great time to look at the planets....

The moon and Venus before sunset on July 15, 2018

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July 14th 2018... Super bright Mars on the left, Saturn above the "teapot" and Jupiter on the far right.

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Taken at 4.30am .. see if you can find Cassiopeia , Venus and Pleiades .

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Let me know what you can spot in the pics...

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Naka, i know all too well , what it is like. heheh.. Esp the cold. Aiyooo... standing out in the open for hours until toes are freezing, hands and face freezing, and then you cant control any of the...

Ooooh.. FT, you are using the same Celestron? Great!! So when you come visit me some day, you will already be familiar with it. Still in the stupid process of trying to get our house built so that we...

FT... check out the scope that was recently donated to the club. Celestron CPC 1100 starBright XLT.
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I havent looked...

wah.. you are really good FT. and yes it was handheld using my canon p&s which i always carry in my handbag. It works better than my MotoX (1st gen) phone when i need to use nightshot mode ; a...

One more thing i should mention, ... if anyone is in Singapore on a Friday , the astronomy club there has tours of the observatory dome and also some members set up scopes for viewing. no charge....

Ok.. i got my photobucket password right! Finally!

Last night at a school star party, we had about 8 scopes out and i took the opportunity to photograph a couple of objects through someone's...

It can get tricky trying to take a pic through the eye piece esp when you know a bunch of people are waiting for their turn.

Thanks Naka!! Now why didnt i think about it considering i had a nice long conversation with one my my club members about Radio astronomy and how he listens to it while driving in his car .

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I wonder why they have so many different shaped/designed domes/observatories there. And i wonder if they built those observatories with the intention to see which ones worked better, also whether...

They sure have a lot of little domes in the area too. If you get the chance, can you find out whether all the other 'little' domes are being used regularly and by whom? :)
Last night hubby and i...

Thanks Naka , for sharing your pictures and info with us. Really looking forward to hearing about your tour next. :)
I see one of the scopes in your pic has a solar filter on it. Did you get to look...

Poor hubby had backache that night when he tried to get out of the air mattress in the tent, i think he must have pulled something in his back. Now the past few days it has been my turn to have...

Hv to click on that Flickr link in my previous post. I am so lazy to upload to photobucket at the moment as i was fighting with the password for the longest time. hahaha..
Crappy looking pics...

Always superb pics from you Mick.
I am too lazy to post pics here at the moment so if anyone wants to look at the Palomar Observatory.....

Nice pics FT!
Any plans for Astronomy Day April 29th? Hubby and i are going up to Palomar Observatory coz he is now a docent there. Docents and their family are invited to join in the Astronomy...

WOW! You are really in good shape. Hubby(in his mid 60s) and i average 15.20 min/mile. Yesterday we did only 3.03miles (coz i was being lazy) and it took 46mins 23secs. According to Map My Walk app...

Thank you!! :D

Chang, good thing i hardly sit around all day and i do still have my walks although not as much as before i moved house. I don't walk alone so i need to wait for hubby to be in the...

:D Thank God! It is not easy to have a very restricted diet and I love food too much to be restricted a lot, although i probably have to get on cholesterol meds soon, considering my inherent family...