MicroObservatory

Online Telescope

Finally! natuto rin akong gamitin ang shift sa MicroObservatory software! :) ang paggamit ng shift is nagaalign ka ng objects para kapag na stack siya via RGB(red blue green photos) na nakunan mo gamit ang scope sa MicroObservatory, ay maganda ang kalalabasan.

for more information about MicroObservatory:

MicroObservatory

Observing with NASA

MicroObservatory Online Telescope

Dumbbell Nebula M27

Ring Nebula M57

Christmas Night Sky

Christmas day!

Cloudy night! may tropical storm kasi sa Pilipinas kaya medyo cloudy. Anyway, napagbigyan naman ako ng sky na magastrophotography! :) yun nga lang yung mga dapat na target objects ko ay hindi ko nakita dahil nga sa clouds. may next time pa naman! :D

Jupiter and Galilean moons

Moon, Jupiter and Pleiades (Constellation Taurus)

The Christmas Moon

Waxing Gibbous Moon

Winter Solstice

Happy Winter Solstice

December 21 2012 na! and Winter Solstice na at hindi DOOMSDAY. longer nights and shorter days!

According to Kurdstan Planetarium (Facebook: kurdistanplanetarium)

The Winter Solstice begins on December 21 2012 at 11:12 UT. 

for more information about the Winter Solstice

Wikipedia: Winter Solstice

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/WinterSolstice.html

Doomsday and Philippine Space Agency

Philippine Space Agency and Debunking the Mayan Doomsday 

A press conference was held in Anabel's restaurant Tomas Morato Quezon City Philippines (December 14 2012). Merong apat na guest speaker, Dr. Jesus Rodrigo Torres (President of RTU), Dr. Merle Tan (UP-NISMED), Dr. Jose Edgardo Aban (University of Brunei Darussalam) and Mr. Frederick "Bamm" Gabriana (RTU).

Isa sa mga pangarap ito ni Dr. Bernardo Soriano ang magkaroon ng Space Agency dito sa Pilipinas, at dahil nga kapos sa pondo ang Pilipinas, hindi agad agad na gawa ang Space Agency na pinangarap ni Dr. Soriano. So now its our goal to build this PHILIPPINE SPACE AGENCY, with the help of Dr. Custer Deocaris, which is siya ang nagsulat ng bill for building Philippine Space Agency (Facebook: Philippine Space Agency).

Habang nagsesearch ako tungkol sa mga active space agencies dito sa asia, nakita ko na ang Philippines lang ang wala pang Space Agency samantala ang mga nakapaligid na bansa sa amin ay meron nang Space Agency. 

This be will the start of a long journey for us Astronomy students to support this bill, magagamit namin to in the future.

Pls like this page to support Philippine Space Agency I Support Philippine Space Agency

Debunking Mayan Doomsday

Mayan Calendar? pinaka sikat na calendaryo ng taon itong Mayan calendar, actually tapos na siya. Matagal ng issue ang Mayan Calendar porket mageend na ito mageend of the world na rin ba? yan ang tanong ng mga tao noon pero ngayon ay DECEMBER 21 2012 na? and umaga na wala pa ring nanyayari. napaka HOT ISSUE nito at laging na feafeatured sa News TV ang tungkol sa Doomsday.

Mr. Frederick Gabriana one of the speaker during the press conference, said na wala namang manyayari if nagkaroon ng planetary alignment (YES! that is true! when sir bamm teach the 3rd year students to compute the tidal force or something, ang liit lang ng chances niya). "Astronomy study also of celestial bodies..." - Sir bamm.

Rizal Technological University - Astronomy Society

For more news about the Debunking of the Mayan Doomsday and Launching of the Philippine Space Agency:

www.Malaya.com.ph

www.rappler.com

Manila Bulletin

Mabuhay Online

Daily News

www.tempo.com.ph

Promdino

Solar Images (December 14 2012)

Sun

After ng press conference nagobserve kami sa may parking lot ng Annabel's Restaurant kasama ang media. fun experience with them. Sun is very active at that moment, kaya nagastrophotography ako, I used the Coronado PST for solar flares and a solar filter for Sunspots.

Solar Filter, Sky Watcher Newtonian

Coronado PST

Astronomy Photography at PAGASA Observatory

Astrophotography (December 11-12 2012)

Maganda talaga magastrophotography sa isang lugar na mataas ang place, at malayo sa mga buildings at light pollution ng Makati! nagastrophotography ako sa PAGASA Observatory during our Geminid Meteor Shower observation.

Ursa Major

Night Sky and Sky Glow

Moon and Mercury

Moon, Mercury, Venus and Saturn.

Geminid Meteor Shower

Geminids

Different destination kaming mga second year BS Astro students, yung isang group nasa Caliraya Laguna, yung isa pang group ay nasa Taytay Rizal, yung isa kong classmate ay nasa Antipolo City, tapos yung isa ko pang classmate ay nasa Pateros and yung ibang second year nasa PAGASA Observatory. all set up kami para sa data at manuod ng Geminids, dati kasi nung 1st year kami pinagobserve kami ng professor namin at magtally ng meteor para sa data assignment lang yun hindi pa exam hehehe, so ayun sa Montalban Rizal naman kami nagobserve with some 3rd year kasi may assignment din sila... :)

Daming meteors na bumaksak kahit hindi kami sa peak date nagobserve (December 11-12 2012). haayyy kakainggit nga yung mga nasa DARK PLACE (No light pollution) and CLEAR SKIES. naka 15+ meteors ako! hehehehe. lalo na mas maraming bumaksak nung nasa zenith na ang Gemini constellation more on north siya bumaksak.

Radiant of the Geminid Meteor Shower

Photo from: www.policymic.com

Space Junk or Satellite?

Unknown?

Most of us don't know kung ano nga ba meron doon sa video na nakuha namin nila Jonah Inguito and Jeroh Hiyastro during our overnight observation noong November 2012. Nung una sabi ko pa kay Jonah na lamok lang yan siguro, pero impossibleng maging lamok ang nasa video, kasi ang scope ay nakafocus lamang sa Moon. Noong makita namin ulit si Sir  Bamm isa sa mga professor namin sa astronomy, pinaka kita namin yung video which is di niya rin malaman kung ano iyong nakunan namin, then Sir bamm called up Ms. Roch para mapakita yung video, then Ms. Roch also called for Sir Custer, this three persons can't event tell to us what it is? So nagoffer ng help is Sir bamm to check kung Satellite or Space junk ang nakunan namin. after 1 day, Sir bamm message me via facebook regarding about the video, he said na ang nasa video ay hindi Satellite, may possibility daw na Space Junk yun, pero sabi niya rin sa akin na almost a month na daw kasi ang video, puwede daw kasing magbago ang data ng mga Satellites. In short until now hindi namin masabi kung ano yung nasa video.

Details
Location: Rizal Technological University, Boni Mandaluyong City, Philippines
Telescope: Astromaster 130EQ
Camera: CCD
Time and Date: November 7 2012 12:49:33AM

Night Sky at Balayan Batangas

Night Sky at Balayan Batangas

Habang bumabyahe papuntang Tagaytay - Nasugbu Batangas, ay nakakakita na ako ng Stars, at nakikita ko na rin ang Moon at ang planet Jupiter sa bintana ng sasakyan, clear skies and dark place kaya maganda magobserve. Nang marating na namin ang Balayan Batangas, ang ganda ng sky! dark place din kahit may onting ilaw para sa kalsada. Ang probinsya ay isa sa mga gagandang observational site para sa mga astronomers, dahil onti lamang ang light pollution at minsan wala talagang light pollution sa lugar. Na pansin ko din na double ang brightness ng Stars sa Batangas kaysa sa Makati na merong light pollution.

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse and Apogee Moon

Penumbral Eclipse and Apogee Moon November 28-29 2012

Inabangan ng mga Filipino ang Penumbral Lunar Eclipse. Ang pagbabago ay hindi makikita kung gagamit ng astronomical tools, ayon ito sa aking experience. I wasted almost 1hr dahil sa maling exposure, hindi ko rin kasi makita ang changes sa camera, pero nang palitan ko ang exposure into 1/1000 doon ko lang nakita ang mga changes sa Moon. Bonding time pa kami ng family ko during observation of Penumbral Lunar Eclipse and nagkaroon din ng Public Viewing hahaha.

Full Moon (Apogee Moon) "Full Beaver Moon"

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse

Leonid Meteor Shower

Leonid Meteor Shower

Some Astro students joined us to watch the LEONID METEOR SHOWER, we also do astrophotograhy, sketching, teach some first year to align and focus the scope, hunt some deep sky objects and of course observation of leonids. While laying on the floor in our quadrangle, we saw a faint meteor, while going it became bigger, and change into color white to yellow and boom! it disappear! AWESOME! a long meteor! weii! it breaks the meteor shower that i saw last year during geminid meteor shower. so beautiful! we shout out loud because of the long meteor! :D sooo awesome! \m/ :D for the win! We tally every meteor we saw that night for the data! :)

Radiant of the Leonid Meteor Shower

Photo by: Mike Hankey

Photo by: Scott Tully

Photos: http://www.space.com/18509-leonid-meteor-shower-2012-photos.html

the Night Sky at RTU :D

Night Sky at RTU

Last November 6 2012 we decided to have an overnight observation at RTU, our main purpose is to took photos of the Moon, but we also try some deep sky objects and Jupiter. Sir Marigza is the hunter of the deep sky objects while us students also try to sketch and took photos of some celestial objects and constellation (night sky). We also enjoyed the taurid meteor shower! hehehe...

by: Margareth Custodio and Jonah Micah Inguito

Phases of the Moon

Moon

The RTU Astronomy students who really like taking photos of celestial objects and the night sky, met Mr. Gerard Lazarus an Astronomy Enthusiast from Australia would like to experiment the different phases of the Moon. So some astronomy students like me and the professors participate and willing to help Mr. Gerard to his said experiment. As far as I know I started last saturday that was October 27 2012 even though I'm sick i still need to participate for the name of the RTU. I send first my sample if it is good or bad, me and Gerard started also having conversation and discuss the said project, until now we submit photos for the experiment.

For more photos you may visit my Facebook account https://www.facebook.com/AstroMargareth