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Observatory from Carpark top floor..
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:29 pm
by kensou
Can I ask is it invasion of privacy to view stars with telescope at the top of carpark near HDB blocks?
I wanna confirm this so as when I go up to view at Carpark top, at least I can tell the police in no rights they can ask me to leave the premises
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:41 pm
by andeelym
Should be ok as it is my default mode of viewing. So far so good.
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:53 pm
by haimi
i have for the past few weeks enjoying the views of Saturn from my top carpark deck at mt hse. Even once, a police patrol car drove up to the top deck but didnt even stopped or me being questoned. So shud be fine.
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 1:23 am
by cloud_cover
If they question you, why not invite them to look through the eyepiece without further moving the 'scope? That should prove you're doing soemthing totally legit and harmless
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:20 am
by orly_andico
but what if.. the scope was pointed somewhere else?
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:58 am
by kensou
nah that time me and Junming encounter some1 who contact the police and ask us what we are doing with our telescope.. and then after that ask us to leave.. zzz I was like wtf lo wanted to shoot him back but dun wan la dun tio dai ji better lol
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:55 am
by Robin Lee
Maybe get yourself some astronomy related t-shirt helps?
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 1:22 pm
by vil
kensou wrote:nah that time me and Junming encounter some1 who contact the police and ask us what we are doing with our telescope.. and then after that ask us to leave.. zzz I was like wtf lo wanted to shoot him back but dun wan la dun tio dai ji better lol
i hope we wont come to a stage whereby we need to apply for a permit to do so...
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 1:27 pm
by orly_andico
well the whole telescope thing incites queries about invasion-of-privacy / eavesdropping.
it's basically your right to stargaze, versus the concerns of surrounding apartment dwellers about their privacy being intruded upon. all it takes is 1 complaint right. personally.. given the number of molest cases because yelled about in stomp/straits times, i'm not surprised if people are paranoid.
so it's not about Big Brother government requiring permits for everything, but the concerns of other folks. and it's always easier to come down hard on the (telescope-using) minority.
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 1:34 pm
by VinSnr
There is a way to go around this.....
Next time, use a truss tube dob.
Most people have no idea that is a telescope.