April 24, 2016 ALP GAM SUNDay
Free Solar Viewing Report
by James
Kevin Ty
Last April 24th, ALP celebrated Global Astronomy Month by staging SUNDay , a free solar viewing activity, at San Miguel by the Bay (SMBY)
. Members who were present are ALP President James Kevin
Ty, wife Charito and son Kendrick Cole KC Ty; Secretary
Christopher Louie Lu, Treasurer Andrew Ian Chan, directors
Iah Serna, Shubhashish Banerjee, Peter Benedict
Tubalinal , John Ray Cabrera ; and Miguel
Cajita .
They started
to setup their telescopes at 4:00pm despite the hot and
humid weather. ALPer James brought along his Coronado
PST-Ha on Celestron Nexstar mount ; Andrew with his
Skywatcher 80ED refractor on Vixen GP mount ;
Christopher Louie with his Celestron Powerseeker 80mm
refractor on CG-2 mount and Shubhashish with
his Celestron Powerseeker 70mm refractor on altazimuth
mount .
More than
400+ people were able to observe the Sun through white
light and H-Alpha wavelength on various solar telescopes
brought along by ALPers. They were able to view AR2533
and AR2533 sunspot groups as well as a small stubby
prominence.
They ended
the event at around 6:00pm with a traditional group
shot at the event of the event.
Group Shot
Wacky Shot |
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