The Philippine Astronomical Society hosted a deep-sky observing marathon at the dark skies of Big Handy’s Ground located at Tanay Rizal. It was an off-the-grid camp site, literally - no signal, electricity, water supply and is away from b...
Mare Crisium is a flat basin that can be easily seen on the Moon’s Edge. Within the mare are craters Piccard (left) and Pierre (right) . Image taken a day after the full moon using Philippine Astronomical Society‘s Celestron nexstar 8se a...
An isolated rain in the afternoon posed a threat the planned observation for the night. It cleared up in late evening but seeing was mediocre. I’ve waited for GRS to transit while it was a luck that Io was captured within the FOV. 12/7/12 10:32...
A quick test image on Jupiter last November 21, 2012 using Philippine Astronomical Society’s Celestron c8 SE known as Rica Jane. Io’s shadow on the side can be seen. Filed under: Astronomy in the Philippines, Webcam Astrophotography T...
The sky was generous for a few moments until the clouds came rolling in. Luckily, we were able to capture a few frames of Jupiter. The image was taken at Subic during the Philippine Astronomical Society Planning Session using Celestron C6 SCT on EQ...