Ob at Turf City on 2nd May 08 @ 9.00pm

Clifford60 · Post by **Clifford60** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:51 pm

Will be obbing tomorrow night at 9.00pm at Turf City, field site. All are welcome to come along. See map, marked in light blue location. Any problem finding the location, SMS (96968692) or PM me.

So far Remus, Zong and I will be going.

wx1985 · Post by **wx1985** » Thu May 01, 2008 3:49 pm

anyone near amk can let me hitch a ride? [smilie=beg.gif]

raychan · Post by **raychan** » Thu May 01, 2008 5:30 pm

Hi Cliff

Oohhh....never been to this site before. This is further in than the usual site.
Will be there at about 10pm.

Hope there is no cloud tomorrow nite as it was quite cloudy over here last night. Couldn't see anything even though Stellarium showed so many objects in the sky :-(

Clifford60 · Post by **Clifford60** » Fri May 02, 2008 1:58 pm

So far the confirmed headcount is 7.

mySG_jy · Post by **mySG_jy** » Fri May 02, 2008 7:37 pm

i will come but today no scope

Clifford60 · Post by **Clifford60** » Sat May 03, 2008 2:46 am

At the end, we've 10 person turned up for the ob, 8 adults and 2 kids. Remus, Liuming, David Lian, Zong, WeiXiong (WX1985), Mark, Raymond+2 kids and me of course.

The sky was quite kind to us, at anyone time we had some part of the sky reasonably clear. Basically, we were give the opportunity to view nearly every part of the sky. As usual, the southern sky gave us the most objects and I started to learn more about the northern sky like the M13, the double double east of Vega, etc. Oh, the group saw a total of 3 bright yellow meteors at around 11pm, personal I only saw 1 of them.

We packed up at about 12mn and head to Adam Rd Food Centre for drinks and supper (Remus only)

Last but not least, thanks Raymond for the giant fish balls.

starfinder · Post by **starfinder** » Sat May 03, 2008 8:21 am

Clifford60 wrote:Oh, the group saw a total of 3 bright yellow meteors at around 11pm, personal I only saw 1 of them.

Sounds like you guys had a good time!

Can you recall the location and heading of the meteors? I'm wondering if they are early Eta-Aquarids. If so, I think the meteors would have been heading towards (or away from) the horizon at due East at a steep angle.

Lucky you guys to see 3 bright meteors in the city, and coloured ones too!

rlow · Post by **rlow** » Sat May 03, 2008 9:34 am

Good that you guys had a great time last night! Wish we could be there with all of you but we need to sleep early for the trip today.

Clifford60 · Post by **Clifford60** » Sat May 03, 2008 11:29 am

starfinder wrote:
Clifford60 wrote:Oh, the group saw a total of 3 bright yellow meteors at around 11pm, personal I only saw 1 of them.
Sounds like you guys had a good time!

Can you recall the location and heading of the meteors? I'm wondering if they are early Eta-Aquarids. If so, I think the meteors would have been heading towards (or away from) the horizon at due East at a steep angle.

Lucky you guys to see 3 bright meteors in the city, and coloured ones too!

Mark mentioned the one he saw traveled from ENE close to horizon upward toward W direction and lasted quite a length. The one I saw move from S toward NE @ somewhere around Vigro/Bootes/Serpens Caput, lasted quite short. The other one need to check with Raymond, however, I know all 3 meteors were observed facing East.

Clifford60 · Post by **Clifford60** » Sat May 03, 2008 11:34 am

rlow wrote:Good that you guys had a great time last night! Wish we could be there with all of you but we need to sleep early for the trip today.

David mentioned that he met up with you but you can't turn up. Anyway, enjoy yourselves up north. Believe more meteors for you guys.