June 9, 2019 ALP Monthly Meeting Report

Last June 9, members of Astronomical League of the Philippines held their monthly meeting at Alice’s Residence in Quezon City. Members who attended were ALP President James Kevin Ty and son Kendrick Cole KC Ty ; Treasurer Andrew Ian Chan, Secretary Justine Garcia, Auditor Edgar Ang, PRO Alice Villa-Real and Per Edman.

Meeting started at around 3pm with Per Edman discussing on his astro imaging experience using his Imaging scope and ZWO ASIair. Also discussed is the upcoming International Sunday free solar viewing session at SMBY at SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City.

Meeting ended at around 6:30pm.

May 12, 2019 ALP Monthly Meeting Report

ALP had a simple monthly meeting last May 12, 2019 at Alice’s Residence. Members who attended were ALP President James Kevin Ty and son Kendrick Cole KC Ty ; Auditor Edgar Ang, and PRO Alice Villa-Real.

Meeting started at around 2:45pm with discussion on the upcoming June 16 International SUNDay free solar viewing session at SM By The Bay at SM MOA, Pasay City. Afterwards, a mix topics on Astronomy and ketogenic diet were discussed. Meeting ended at around 6:45pm.

October 20, 2018 ALP International Observe The Moon Night (InOMN) Report

ALP celebrated International Observe the Moon Night (InOMN) last October 20, 2018 at SM by the Bay Sunset Park from 7:00-9:30pm. Members who are present are ALP President James Kevin Ty and son Kendrick Cole KC Ty; Treasurer Andrew Ian Chan, Secretary Justine Garcia, Per Edman, Mike Enage, Vincent Gella , Mark Ian Singson and Adi Bontuyan. James brought alonmg a Celestron C90 Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope ; Mike with his TMB92 refractor on MG2 mount ; Per with his Orion XT6 Dobsonian reflector ; Vincent and Mark brought identical Celestron Travel Scope 70mm on sturdy tripods.

Around 200 people get to view the Waxing Gibbous Moon as well as planet Mars before clouds and light drizzle ended the event at around 9:30pm.

Group Shot

Wacky Shot

July 28, 2018 ALP Planet Watch & Total Lunar Eclipse Observation Report

Last July 28, Astronomical League of the Philippines (ALP) set up with a free public planetary and total lunar eclipse observation session at SM By The Bay Amusement Park at SM Mall of Asia. Members who were present are ALP President James Kevin Ty and son Kendrick Cole KC Ty; Treasurer Andrew Ian Chan, Secretary Justine Garcia , Auditor Edgar Ang , Edwin Gatia and Michella Esparas and Per Edman.

Despite a drizzling weather, they started to setup their telescopes at around 8:30pm . James brought along his Canon EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS L lens with Canon EOS M6 mirror less camera mounted on Kenko Sky Memo-R star tracker ; Andrew with his Skywatcher 80ED refractor on Vixen GP mount ; Kendrick Cole with his Canon EFS 55-250mm f/5.6 IS lens with Canon EOS 500D DSLR on Vixen Polarie Star Tracker ; Edgar with his Celestron Nexstar 90GT refractor ; Per with his Orion ST80 refractor on sturdy tripod. The sky was a very cloudy as well as intermittent drizzling the whole night! On short drizzling and cloud breaks, members were able to show the Full Moon to some public people at the park. No planets were observed that evening due to bad weather.

After past midnight, the total lunar eclipse started and members were able to observe and image the partial phase of the eclipse midway before the entire sky got clouded out as well as rained the whole event thereafter. Members were hopeful to get a chance to observe and image totality through clouds but failed miserably.

Some ALPers in the Southern Philippines as well as Thailand were more blessed to observe some totality phase. Christopher Go was lucky to observe the event past totality in Thailand before getting clouded out. Same goes to Val Thomas Abapo in Cebu.