April 13-14, 2013 ALP Caliraya Stargazing Session Report
by James
Kevin Ty
Images by James Kevin Ty , Jett Aguilar, Mike Enage ,
Mark Vornhusen , Ronald Sison
Last April 13, members
of the Astronomical League of the Philippines went to Caliraya , Laguna for their monthly dark skies
stargazing session. Members
who were present were ALP President James Kevin
Ty, wife Charito and son Kendrick Cole KC Ty; VP Jett
Aguilar, Treasurer Andrew Ian Chan & Iah Serna ; Mike Enage,
Ronald Sison with sons Adrian & Aldrin Sison, Mark Vornhusen
, Per Edman & son Oliver Edman ; guests German amateur
astronomer Patrick Schmeer & Sky Wei.
They departed after lunch
individually and most of them arrive late at around
8:00pm more or less because of heavy trafiic along
Calamba , Laguna! James brought along his Canon
EF100-400mm IS L lens mounted on Vixen GPDXmount &
Vixen Polarie Star Tracker. Jett brought along
his MicroTech 6" RC & William Optics Megrez 90 refractor on Vixen GPDX
mount. Andrew with
his Skywatcher 80ED refractor on Vixen GP mount; Mike
with his ETX125 Mak OTA mounted on Vixen GPDX mount;
Mark with his Nikon 180mm lens on Polarie Star Tracker,
Ronald with his Nikon lenses mounted on Vixen Polarie
Star Tracker.
The sky was mostly clear the whole
night although some passing clouds did interfere once in
a while. They were able to image the Milky Way as well as some deep sky objects
such as Orion Nebula, Omega Centauri globular star
cluster, Lagoon & Triffid Nebula & M101 Pinwheel Galaxy.
They attempted to image Comet 2011 L4 PanSTARRS but was
foiled by low NE horizon clouds :(
At around 8:00am, they packed up
their stuffs and had their customary group shot taken
before going to Jollibee Pagsanjan to have their
breakfast before going home.
M42 Orion Nebula by ALPer Mark
Vornhusen |
Summer Milky Way by ALPer Mark
Vornhusen |
Eta Carina Nebula by ALPer
Mike Enage |
M101 Pinwheel Galaxy by
ALPer Mike Enage |
Omega Centauri Globular Star
Cluster by ALPer Mark Vornhusen |
Polaris Star Trail by ALPer
Ronald Sison |
M8 Lagoon & M20 Triffid Nebula
by ALPer James Kevin Ty |
M101 Pinwheel Galaxy by
ALPer Jett Aguilar |
Summer Milky Way by ALPer
James Kevin Ty |
Summer Milky Way by ALPer
James Kevin Ty |
Rho Ophiuchi by ALPer Mark
Vornhusen |
Breakfast before going home !
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Group Shot
Wacky Shot :)
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