from canon website.. i read that there is exposure time of 5mins.... izit oni applicable to d-slr oni...? or every camera can set that manually.. n y ppl saidthat a old type camera works better than a digital camera.. izit comparing with a old slr with latest slr or normal cam with latest camera..

5 mins not quite enough for nice trails..... 

Just a reminder, tonite is full moon! The Egg Moon! (because it's Easter Friday). 

Also has anyone sighted fragment B of 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann? It's reported at 9th magnitude now, and may be visible through binos from just after sunset. I think I'll try to spot it this weekend if the weather permits. 

the interesting thing is that 73P has broken up into so many pieces and is still disintegrating, so the earlier ephemerides 73P (1995) will be quite inaccurate.

Check here for daily updates!
73P Comet Fragment High-Accuracy Ephemeris
the latest data update is a must if you want to see or photograph them!

By George! 
That's another planet I've yet to see. Let us know if you succeeded...give me some motivation to try too!
BTW have you joined APGM?

AIYAH! I thought the peak was to be on Saturday night / Sunday morning and I decide to sleep early last night so I would be fresh tonight......talk about missing the boat....

Did you see any Lyrids this morning?

According to this site:
http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/april_radiants.html
the Lyrids peak for us in Malaysia should be around 8.30 pm tonight.  haven't missed the boat yet.

If we are lucky, we may see the meteors shooting up from the North-Eastern horizon!  But generally speaking it is always better to wait for our part of the Earth to rotate to face the oncoming meteors so I reckon just after midnight is when I'll seriously start watching, although it will be over 3 hours after the expected peak......

Get ready with your DSLRs as Mr.LKM has pointed out (unfortunately I don't have one) - and also get ready to wish (this I have plenty) upon a falling star....

My private one-man party also fizzled out. It was still so cloudy at 1.00 am I gave up and went to sleep.  But I wonder if I missed something because the sky was showing nice patches of clear blue this morning.......

Well, I'll try again tonight. Might catch one or two late Lyrids.

Vega will rise at about midnight in the North-East, so don't wait until dawn.

Hehe you drink too much beer at last night's party. 

But you don't need to look at Lyra to see the Lyrids. Shooting stars can be anywhere in the sky. Just concentrate on any part of the sky which is clear.

I usually start my star party with a few cups of coffee and plenty of kacang.....then move on to some beer when I'm about to finish........ 

Ya, I often pop in at your blog just to check what you've been up to. Great site, wish I knew how to do one like yours. But I'm too boring lah, I don't know what to write about.

Reply? let me think of what to say first......it must be meaningful and wise to match your site lah.  Aiyoyo my mind has just gone blank again!

You know like everybody I like to criticise the authorities a lot. So I would love to do a blog like Jeff Ooi's but scared the polis will come and visit me.........nanti masuk lockup pula! 

Never mind the Lyrids lah, you can try again next year.
As for Uranus, this planet is just a p*in in the a*s to catch. 

Please don't spam.
I don't see anything on astrophotography.
It is so rude to capitalise all your letters too.

I think the mods caught him quite fast.
Good job, mods!
I saw a warning thread to him come on earlier on but it seems to have been removed. He only manage to infect 3 threads before he was stopped.
WEPP8818 is probably a newbie to the internet, email and forums. He hasn't learnt the etiquette......give him a chance lah.

Not yet, hopefully tonight can start lah. Long holiday weekend ahead.   
Last night I thought I would do it, but the sky was uncooperative as usual, couldn't even see Jupiter!

BTW congratulations on sighting Uranus! 
Maybe if I manage to stay up the whole night until morning I might finish off with a glimpse of good old George too.....

Have you had any luck spotting any of the 73P/SW fragments yet? The sky has been hopeless over here in KL since last Saturday. If this goes on, I will have to make a special camping trip this weekend far away from KL. Can't afford to keep missing so many events......

The database corruption has me seeing stars!

Anyway, to repost, I missed 73P/SW fragment C on Sunday Night/Morning morning even though the sky was cooperative. I guess I was fixated on the Ring Nebula and the comet was still quite a distance from it!
Unfortunately this mistake could prove costly as the sky has closed up again.....

the comet's perihelion is near....     

Yea, tonite it's do or die!

Unfortunately it's also raining cats and dogs now.... ....will the skies clear in time?

Sorry im a newbie in this. Care to describe in simpler terms for me? To begin with is face East,WeSt,North or South?

thanks