January 16, 2015 ALP Comet Stargazing Session Report
by James Kevin Ty
Images by James Kevin Ty, Christopher Louie Lu , Edge Lat

Last January 16, a late afternoon decision  by ALPers James Kevin Ty, Christopher Louie Lu, Edgar Ang and Edge Late to go to PAGASA Observatory at UP Diliman to try to observe Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy.  They meet up at Jollibee Commonwealth before proceeding to the site.

ALPers James Kevin Ty brought along his Canon EOS500D DSLR with Canon EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS L lens mounted on a Kenko Sky Memo-R star tracker ; Edgar Ang brought along his Vixen Polarie star tracker and mounted Edge Lat's Canon EOS 60D DSLR on it. Christopher Louie Lu brought along his Canon EOS 450D DSLR with Canon EFS 55-250mm F/5.6 zoom lens mounted on sturdy tripod.

The sky was partly clear with lots of fast passing clouds and a bit of light pollution coming from nearby building construction near the observatory.  Despite this circumstances, they were able to observe and image the comet.  They were also able to meetup with some guests of the observatory and observe planet Jupiter through the observatory's 7" f/15 Meade Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope on LX200 mount.

At around 10:30pm, clouds started to cover up the sky and they ended their observing session at around 11:00pm with traditional group shot before heading home at around 12:00am.

ALPer James Kevin Ty posed beside his Canon EOS 500D DSLR with Canon EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS L lens on Kenko Sky Memo-R star tracker mount.	ALPer Edge Lat beside his Canon EOS 60D DSLR with Canon EFS55-250mm f/5.6 zoom lens mounted on Vixen Polarie star tracker mount.
ALPer Edgar Ang  beside  Canon EOS 60D DSLR with Canon EFS55-250mm f/5.6 zoom lens mounted on his Vixen Polarie star tracker mount.	ALPer Edgar Ang  posed beside James' Canon EOS 500D DSLR with Canon EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS L lens on Kenko Sky Memo-R star tracker mount.
ALPers and guests posed with PAGASA Observatory staff and Meade 7" f/15 Maksutov-Cassegrain LX200 mount.	ALPers and guests posed with PAGASA Observatory staff and Meade 7" f/15 Maksutov-Cassegrain LX200 mount.
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy by ALPer James Kevin Ty	Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy by ALPer Christopher Louie Lu

Group Shot

Wacky Shot