January 14, 2018 ALP Monthly
Meeting Report
by James
Kevin Ty
Last January 14, Astronomical League of the
Philippines (ALP) held its
monthly meeting at
Alice Villa-Real's residence in Quezon City. Members
who were present are ALP President James Kevin Ty ,
VP Jett Aguilar, Secretary Justine Garcia, Auditor Edgar
Ang, directors Ronald Sison & Alice Villa-Real ; Adi Bontuyan
and Mike Enage.
Meeting started at around 3:30pm
with ALP Secretary Justine Garcia giving a basic lecture
on Star Names, topics discussed are the system of naming
a star the Bayer designation system and the Flamsteed
designation. The concept of the absolute and
apparent magnitude. the difference between asterism and
constellation. Then it was followed by the
astronomy highlights of events for the month of January.
January 1 mercury at greatest western elongation , Jan
3,4 Quadrantids meteor shower , Jan 17 new moon
and Jan 31 Blue Moon , Supermoon and the Total Lunar
Eclipse.
The event ended at around
6:00pm .
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