Table of contents for Kluang 100 Hours Star Party
- 居銮天文100小时观星会
- 第一晚：卫星市霸级市场
- (English) Night 2: Kluang Mall
对不起，此内容只适用于English。
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Table of contents for Kluang 100 Hours Star Party
- 居銮天文100小时观星会
- 第一晚：卫星市霸级市场
- (English) Night 2: Kluang Mall
对不起，此内容只适用于English。
Table of contents for Kluang 100 Hours Star Party
- 居銮天文100小时观星会
- 第一晚：卫星市霸级市场
- (English) Night 2: Kluang Mall
为了响应2009国际天文年，居銮的天文爱好者于四月的第一个周末聚集以天文100小时之名在一起承办居銮最大型的观星活动。
以下是活动日期和地点。这三天晚上的观星会是从晚上8点开始直到10点30分结束（当然，要是您还有兴趣的话我们会继续为您服务）
- 4月3日 - 卫星市Giant霸级市场
- 4月4日 – Kluang Mall 福联广场大门口
- 4月5日 – Kluang Mall 福联广场顶楼停车场
大家会观测什么呢？最瞩目的有环行星——土星、星星出生的地方之一，猎户座星云、七仙女——Pleaides、天上最亮的恒星——天狼星、地球最佳的伙伴——月球。。。
这三天晚上为您提供视觉震撼的望远镜有8”的Meade LX90，Orion SkyQuest XT8i, Celestron Celestar 8 还有几支折射镜。
参与我们，一起踏出地球的第一步！
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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.
Saturn made people amaze!
“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 ).
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.
