NightEvents by Video Patrol - Singapore
EXploring the night sky (from indoors) with a 25mm,6mm, 3.8mm lens & ultra-sensitive 1/2" CCD - Watec 902/902H2Utimate monitored by Sonotaco's motion detect UFOCapture V2 software. Meteors, tumbling satellite flashes, Sprite, birds, aircraft, helicopters, lightning flashes, insects, bugs.. the search for the big one continue.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Saturday, March 07, 2009
A night with 75mm /Watec out of my window Feb 6 09

I glanced at the HA list of >4.5 mag satellite
and noticed one coming up - a rocket body
so i expect a tumbling signature and reposition.
True enough the it dimmed and gradually brighten leaving
a 'drawn-out' brightness envelope.
While parking the lens's FOV at Orion - ' Dagger' region, a jet flew by(Map courtesy of Heavens-above.com)
snapshot mode from within UFOCapturecreating a 4 Z-frames from avi and IRIS add_max2 stacked
Then i went out to field to look at the real stars
Moon and Gem's Castor Pollux .. clouds drifted in making a haloed moon - Regulus - Saturn towards the east ( Comet Lulin should be in Cancer...). Big patches of clear sky and in the SE - the 'False Cross' rising
When i returned I glanced at monitor - the automatic video detection
bagged one random meteor and another short 'line' created by a flaring satellite
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Southern Cross ( Crux vs Crux)

Courtesy of AP
Was reading Tuesday 11/2/2009 Strait Times and saw this article about Tekapo, NZ. Lovely milky way against a church. The dark nebula - coal sack was plainly visible and if you look carefully, you will appreciate AP photographer had the Southern Crux vs the Crucifix in mind.Southern Hemisphere folks seeing Northern constellation the other way round. ( mirror image) from the northern counterpart. eg Orion belt slants the other way..
Monday, February 09, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
First Day of CNY and here is an exception - a day event


Its first day of CNY as usual we visited our mother-in-law in the morning and i had plenty of time to burn....
Checking my inventory : Annular eclipse in few hours time. What can i do? Need solar filter and either digital camera or video. I have a cumbersome old russian 300 mm lens and a Thousand Oak C5 filter.
I took out a shoe-box and cut some strips to line the outside of the lens hood - a few minutes later the C5 solar filter seated properly on the lens hood.
I need a color ccd - get the Jaguar Mintron, fish out a Sony Handy cam for recording. I need a easy to use digital camera - the recent addition CP P5100 fit the bill. Batteries need charging... Guide or unguided? The hardly used Orion Teletrack couldnt handle the heavy lens + ccd..pointing at steep elevation angles so I switch to camera tripod and a 2-axis slow motion... ( works all the time for comets too). I am set.... Then my brother and family came.


Sunlight getting into my hall. The dryer was the best platform for my camcorder while the 300mm lens+ solar filter faced the sun.

Close to 4:30pm the encroaching shadow-caster - moon created a bite of the sun, breaking the perfect circular 'spotless' geometry.
The bite get larger and larger as I continue outside the corridor then .. the clouds came and blinking light from the draining Lithium battery... oh well. Time to pack up and perhaps some other lucky folks can imagine a better one else where.Using the same tools - UFOCapture V2.. i yanked out a couple of still shots and tested re installation of another USB Capture external device - Yuan's TV2Go.

P/s the camcorder time was 15 minutes faster..
It will be interesting to have set up a portable tracker and just leave the video on or another digital camera with lightweight filter in front for interval shooting .. perhaps next time.
This is another USB video capture board tested to work in UFOCaptureV2.
" When you have only a hammer... every problem look like a nail to you ....."
It will be interesting to have set up a portable tracker and just leave the video on or another digital camera with lightweight filter in front for interval shooting .. perhaps next time.
This is another USB video capture board tested to work in UFOCaptureV2." When you have only a hammer... every problem look like a nail to you ....."
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
Saturday, January 03, 2009
'Tear Drop' Meteor Again Jan 03 '09
.. and the brief event videoMoon(- 9.7) and venus (mag-4.3) in early evening for magnitude comparison

Thursday, January 01, 2009
Unknown Object - firework or meteor?
Is this a single stray from 'firework' that masquerade as a meteor ? ( 0:12 hr)Watch the the video just posted there. ( The little sparkle at the end of the video gave the true ID away- firework as all of you have correctly pointed out)





















