ALP MONTHLY MEETING REPORT |
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July 3, 2005 by James Kevin Ty |
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| Last July 3, members of ALP held its monthly meeting at the residence of colleague Rev. Alice Villa-Real. Members who were present on the meeting were James Kevin Ty, Allen Yu, Francisco Lao Jr. , Rich Pijuan, Dante Cruz, Dante Noche, Jhun Embuido, Lea Visaya, Jett Aguilar, Hans Gideon Cerdenia, Angie Tan, Melisa Bata, Jon Alcartado, and new member Joey Grajeda. The meeting started at around 3:15pm with ALP president
After finishing the first installment of his lecture, the group went on to celebrate the birthday of our colleague and best friend Allen Yu. A small birthday cake was presented to him to his laughter as it his code name was labelled there instead of his name! :) LOL Nevertheless, he was touched by the warm response brought about by his fellow colleagues and later promised to treat everyone out for a dinner! HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALLEN!!!
ALPer Dante Noche also brought to the meeting is reconverted Discovery 8" f/7 original Sonotube Dobsonian reflector into a classic wooden tube reflector. His design was a beauty and lightweight in design. There was also no apparent backlash on both axis as well. He was raring to test it out on the coming stargazing session on August 6. After some light snacks, fellow ALPer Jett Aguilar The meeting ended at around 6:30pm and the group went ahead to Hap Chan restaurant where our birthday boy treats ALPers a good and hearty dinner. Once again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALLEN !!! May you have more wonderful birthdays and blowouts to come!!!
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James
Kevin Ty giving hands on lecture on how to operate ALP first owned telescope, a Meade
8" f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain. He started his lecture on how the
Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope design works, afterwards, he enumerate the different parts of
the telescope from the heavy duty tripod to minute accessories such as eyepieces, adapters
as well as setting circles. Members were also given the chance to have real active
hands-on on how to operate the telescope. As he is giving the lecture, members
specially the newbies, keep a good note of what he is lecturing as members after attending
the 2 planned lectures will be given a practical and written exam to get an access to be
able to operate the scope during an ALP sanctioned activity.
He then followed it up by teaching them on
how to polar align ,the fork type way. Most of the members at ALP are more accustomed to
seeing a German equatorial mount than fork mounted scopes. They were then able to
comment on the different types of mount and their own way to polar align. As we all
know, learning to polar align correctly is a vital matter when one wants to have serious
observation as well as astrophotography as the chosen celestial object will stay in the
telescope field of view of a long period of time.
presented
to the group his book review entitled "Turn Left at Orion" . He said that it is
one of his invaluable book as it helps him locate the interesting deep sky objects (DSOs)
with its individual finder charts as well as sketches of the objects to let him get a feel
on what to expect from the eyepiece view. The book also contains lots of catalogs
that contains the most interesting and popular celestial objects. A more detailed
book review by him will be posted in the book review section in the days to come.