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“At the end of this talk, you won’t know anything new than you knew in the beginning” Dr Paul Francis said. “Greatest Unsolved Mysteries of The Universe” is the title of his first public lecture in 2010. I hope you will enjoy this.
This public lecture was co-organized by ANU Black Hole Society and Australian Institute of Physics. The video is provided by Australian National University Channel at YouTube.
In celebration of International Year of Astronomy 2009, we, the Kluang amateur astronomers have gathered to organise one of the greatest star party in the name of 100 Hours of Astronomy during the first weekend of April.
Below is the venue and the date. All the starparties start from 8.00pm and end on 10.30pm.
What are we going to observe? The famous ring planet – Saturn, Great Orion Nebula where the new stars are born, the seven sisters – Pleaides, the brightest star – Sirius, our Earth very best friend – the Moon and more!
The telescopes serving your eyeballs during this weekend are 8″ Meade LX90, Orion SkyQuest XT8i, Celestron Celestar 8 and a few little refractors. Join us tonight and make it a memorable night!
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27 Jan 2009 – We reached another 350 people this time. 350 people, actually more than that, joined us for the partial solar eclipse observing event at Kluang Mall, Kluang, Johor, Malaysia.
The partial solar eclipse started at 16:30:55 and ended on 18:58:21 on 26 Jan 2009. I arrived at the mall around 16:10 and when I had the LX90 ready for observing the sun, the elicpse had already begun. However, I was so thrilled as this was the first time I gazed at the “eaten sun”. At the mean time, Shyh Tzer was setting up his photography equipment. Homemade solar filter (floppy disk) attached on the front of the digital camera was used to snap the great moment.
Front: Cool DIY sunglasses!
Back: The guy in the back is Rui-Yi. He counted the number of visitors
Shyh Tzer also brought along 8 sunglasses made with the floppy disk for the participants. Frankly speaking, looking via the sunglasses and my LX90 were equally fun. Though, a Lunt Solar telescope would double the joy we all had.
Left to right: *censored*, Kang Xuan and Shyh Tzer
This time, I was not alone. Well, there are members along with me everytime. 
Shyh Tzer, Kang Xuan (red), Rui-Yi and I handled the event this time. There could be more but most of the members are enjoying themselves with relatives and friends as 26 Jan 2009 was the first day of Chinese New Year.
Few hours before the event, I was actually struggling whether to hold this event or not. It was so rare to have all the relatives gathered at grandfather’s house. Fortunately, I took the right action and went straight to hold this event. What I had at the site was much more than what I could gain. It’s wonderful to share the joy with people rather than keep the joy myself. One’s happiness and 350 happiness, which one would you pick?
Great! Thumbs up!
I participated in MICSS (Malaysia Independent Chinese School ??) Science Camp held at Hin Hua High School, Klang, Selangor, Malaysia during 30 May to 3 June. I had a great time there.
The theme of this science camp was Space Science, my favourite. There were 3 talks by world-class professors. The Look of Universe Under Multi-Wavelength Observation by Prof. Wei-Hsin Sun, Near Earth Asteroid Observations by Zhu Jin, curator of Beijing Planetarium and High Altitude Atmosphere Lighting Phenomena – Sprites, Blue Jets and Gigantic Jets by Prof. Hsu, Rue-Ron.
I like Prof. Wei-Hsin Sun the most. I totally admire his speech skill. Almost everybody was excited during his talk. The most valuable lesson that he taught me was not about the science but the attitude towards life. Listen more instead of talking more, once you know more, you will talk less as you know that the knowledge you hold is just a fraction.
I also met a professor from USM. Dr.Chong is a very funny person, he has high spirits in sharing his knowledge. It’s really my pleasure to know him. He taught me water-rocket which was one of my happiest moments. His record is 150m high and 180m long. I also know a high school teacher from Zhe Jiang, China. She is Lin Lan. She knows a lot of the equipment.
There was a sunspot observing activity and stargazing party on the third day and fourth day. I saw the most telescopes in my life that day. Colorado Solarmax by National Planetarium, CGE-1400, 6″ Refractor by Mr.Tan, Uncle Looi’s PST and Meade MySky, Mr Kew’s 10″ Meade LX200GPS, WO Megrez 90, 8″ LX200 Classic by USM Dr.Chong, Hin Hua Astronomy Club’s VC200L and … (let me recall..)
Photos will be uploaded soon. 
It’s been a long time since my last post. I’m getting lazy and in low spirits. I lost almost 90% of my spirit in a girl.
“Bring the telescope to the public, share the night sky and the knowledge” is the intention of the International Sidewalk Astronomy Night (ISAN). The purpose is to give the people on this planet a chance to look at the celestial objects through telescope.
We only held ISAN 2008 today due to the mis-forecasted weather on 12 April 2008. (I was the culprit ).
Continue reading ’407 Visitors Recorded for ISAN 2008, Kluang’
People were highly attracted by this photo projected on the panel.
As a member of NASA Saturn Observation Campaign, I held my first event on 6 March 2008 at our school basketball field at 7.30pm.
Continue reading ‘First NASA Saturn Observation Campaign in Kluang’
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