Deep Sky Imaging Session - December 30-31, 2015

Last December 30, ALPers consisting of ALP President James Kevin Ty, Treasurer Andrew Ian Chan, Alexander Imperial and Robert Gascon went to Tanay, Rizal to do a site inspection as well as stage a stargazing session to check the site's darkness. They meetup at around 2:30pm and proceeded to the site. Along the way, they also got to see a beautiful double rainbow! The sky was a bit cloudy when they arrive but as later in the evening, the sky partly cleared up for them to do some deep sky imaging session. James brought along his Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS Lens on Kenko Sky Memo-R star tracker ; Andrew with his Skywatcher 80ED refractor on Vixen GP mount ; Alex, on the other hand brought along his Canon 75-300mm lens on Vixen Polarie star tracker. In the early evening , James imaged the Horsehead Nebula and M41 galactic star cluster and Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina in the early morning before sunrise. The Waning Gibbous Moon that rose in the late evening hamper a bit imaging quality specially on the comet as the gas and dust tails are now faintly seen compared to last December 13th comet session. Despite the several abrupt short drizzle sessions they encountered, they are still quite happy that they were able to some deep sky imaging session despite the Moon's presence. In the morning, they had a traditional group picture taken by going home.