They arrive at Caliraya around 12:15am and setup their equipment. ALP President James Kevin Ty brought along his Canon EOS 500D DSLR with Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS L Lens on Kenko Sky Memo-R mount ; Bobby Parhizkari with his Canon Astro 50D DSLR with Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 lens on Takahashi Sky Patrol 2 mount while Christopher Louie Lu brought along his Celestron Powerseeker 90mm refractor on EQ-1 mount.
The sky was partly cloudy but lots of opening skies as well for them to observe and image that early morning. C+It was Christopher's first observing session at Caliraya and was amazed at the dark skies and numerous DSO and stars that he can observe that morning with binoculars and his telescope.
Unfortunately, the wind was very strong as well thus they have to use their cars try to make a wind breaker out of them :( They had to struggle with the strong wind that the had ruin numerous exposures that James and Bobby did that morning. Nevertheless, they still mange to get some shot of amid the windy situation.
James tried out the Lagoon and Triffid Nebula in Sagittarius as well as his target of the night which is the Veil Nebula. Unfortunately, I could only managed to image Veil with 4 5 mins exposures for a total of 20 minutes exposure which still give a noisy image. But amid the situation, James was still quite happy for after more than 8 years of longing to image the Veil Nebula, he finally was given a chance by mother nature for me to image it amid the lack of sub exposure to make the image better. I hope to try it again this coming April 30-May 1 session at Caliraya again with fellow ALPers.
Portrait images courtesy of Bobby Parhizkari.
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