A bunch of us from the old and new committee went to Selesa Hillhomes, Bukit Tinggi for a leadership discussion and stargazing - hunting the Lyrids meteor shower! It was cloudy at first, but we persevered and at about 3a.m. the skies cleared up and we were up for some serious astronomy adventure!
In between discussions of activities for the new semester (we promise that it'll be an exciting one!), we counted meteors and got a count of 15 in 3 hours! The sources says that Lyrids are 10 per hour, so in average we got 5, not bad.
The skies above are also gloriously filled with stars, we took the chance to do some astrophotography :-) and surprise, surprise - we pictured the Milky Way!
In this picture... there is Sagittarius and Scorpio... and the Milky Way in between.
The white 'clouds' is the Milky Way! This picture is taken by our new publicity director Qin Ni!
We also docked our DSLRs to the Astroview 100mm (some of you remember him as 'Steve') and got some pictures of faint star clusters. It's not as spectacular as the Hubble images, but still amazing in its own right!
M4 Globular Star Cluster ->
<- M6 Butterfly Cluster - do you see a butterfly shape?
M7 Ptolemy's Cluster - legend has it that it was commonly called as the 'nebula on Scorpio's tail' until astronomers with telescopes zoomed in and found this pretty cosmopolis of stars.
This is all for our adventure. Cheers for the new 4th generation Stargazer Society - and potentially the best one yet!
