This coming June 21st, there will be a partial solar eclipse that will be visible in the entire Philippines as well as some of our neighboring Asian and Middle East countries.
Month: June 2020
June 7, 2020 ALP Zoom Meeting
Last June 7, members of the Astronomical League of the Philippines (ALP), held their online zoom monthly meeting. Members who participated were ALP President James Kevin Ty and son Kendrick Cole KC Ty, director Ronald Sison, members Alberto Lao, Val Abapo, Mark Ian Singson and Joyce Gonzalves.
Meeting started at around 1:30pm with members discussing on the just concluded June 6, 2020 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse. The Penumbral being only 57% was very subtle and hard to notice compared to the last January 11, 2020 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse which covers a Penumbral Phase of around 90%.
ALP President James Kevin Ty then discussed on the June 21, 2020 Partial Solar Eclipse that will be visible in the Philippines. An ALP Eclipse Expedition Team would have went to Chiayi, Taiwan for this event but had to be cancelled due to the Covid 19 travel restrictions. Hopefully, ALP will send another eclipse expedition in 2023.
The meeting ended at around 3:30pm.
June 6, 2020 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Report
Last June 6th, ALP President James Kevin Ty went up to his roof deck at around 1:00am to observe and document the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse that was visible in our country. He setup his Canon EOS M6 mirrorless camera on Canon EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS L lens set at 400mm f/11 and mounted on Vixen GP-DX mount. First contact occurred at around 01:45am and reaching maximum penumbral phase of 57% at around 03:25am. The southern limb of the Moon near the Tycho crater shows a lightly shaded area. He continued to image the eclipse till around 04:45am before clouds covered up the Moon which by that time is less than 5 deg above the western horizon. He packed up at around 5:00am.
Other ALPers who were able to image the Penumbral Lunar eclipse as well
Peter Benedict Tubalinal
Mark Ian Singson
May 31, 2020 ALP 1st Zoom Monthly Meeting
Last May 31, some members of the Astronomical League of the Philippines (ALP), participated in their 1st Zoom meeting since its inception. Members who participated were ALP President James Kevin Ty and son Kendrick Cole KC Ty, VP Jett Aguilar, Treasurer Andrew Ian Chan and wife Secretary Justine Guillerma Garcia Chan, director Peter Benedict Tubalinal, members Mark Ian Singson, Alberto Lao, Vincent Gella, Rodel Inclan, and Joaquin Fajardo.
This was the first meeting since February that was held after the whole country was placed under quarantine due to the Covid 19 pandemic last March 16.
It was a special meeting as some inactive or busy members got a chance to join and it was made very informal so as to make the ambience light and easy. Meeting started at around 1:30pm with ALP President James discussing on data and informations of the 2 upcoming astro events being the June 6, 2020 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse as well as June 21, 2020 Partial Solar Eclipse that are both visible in the Philippines.
VP Jett Aguilar, on the other hand discussed some safety precaution on how to protect oneself from getting infected by this virus.
The meeting ended at around 4pm. VP Jett Aguilar also mentioned that online monthly meeting will probably be made till the end of the year or perhaps till next year until a vaccine for Covid 19 virus will be made available to the public.
