June 04 00. EARTH-QUAKE! Done a quick sky scanning using my in-door Sat setup. Within seconds of looking at the b/w monitor I detected a flashing satellite before I had a chance to hook up my video camera. This is a slow 'mover' so I can affort to move my FOV lens around to fix my bearing and get back to it. Using SkyAtlas 2000, I managed to get a position fix of Dec -53 RA 14hr 50min, passing below Star marked 'B' (near object H018)on local time 9:37:15pm. Measured a 15 periods of 1 min 15.994 sec or 5.062 period. Assymetric flash of mag+6.5?>+8.0. Gradual increase of brightness and once reach max drop rapidly. Prelim sat ID found a match of sat# 74089Q. Need second opionion. Not found in ppas database. Then just passed midnight 12:35am observed dressing table mirror was swaying. Curious, i got out of bed, held the mirror to steady it and got back to bed. I still observe the gentle swaying. Perplexed but unruffled I got back to sleep! The next morning news reported a 7.9 earthquake in Summatra. The SW origin of the epic centre might explain the swaying since the mirror plane is East-West and was 'riding' with the seismic 'waves'. The rest of the household didn't feel a thing.

June 8 00. Scanned the sky with watec set up. Seen two sats. Positon noted and one swift meteor burning up 8:35:45? Follow a jet plane and in watec low light can even see the contrail clearly. 5AH gel battery gone flat.

June10 00. Ordered two additional watec-902Hs for my Deep-sky meteor detection system. Also on order is a f/1.3 50mm 'cs' lens. Notice some 'strange' circulating lights outside my windows. Looks like the head-light of a distant cars or intense beam got reflected in the clouds. Another source of unwanted light pollution?? However this provided another new 'entertainment' for my kids.

June 11 00. Impromptu Stargaze Session. Around 11:36?pm despite a cloudy sky with Moon at Zenith, saw a 10-15 degree 'electric blue' meteor streaking away (4 o'clock position) from an 'upright' Scorpion. This is the my 2nd case of a 'flare'-like meteor 'head' seen. Estimate magnitude of the 'head' is -2 or brighter with a LM2+ sky. Partial trail was also seen. I have a wonderful time looking through Vincent's brand-new 8" f/6 Porta-ball. We saw Omega Centauri resolved into a ball of stars at x480, M17 condensed globular cluster, open cluster in Sco( NGC6231), M7(Sco), splitted double in alpha Centauri. Not forgetting a crisp view of our own satellite-moon. I nicked name Copernicus 'Kueh lapis' with its concentric circular rings/layers of crater and radial 'lines'. (Kelvin, Remus, Vincent and myself..what happen to Lin?). Navigation is easy by nudging the scope , grabbing the edge of the upper open tube. This is a great neat visual scope. It defintely lives up to its name as a 'portable' scope. It is affortable too! (for a price equivalent to a top-end pcs). Who say DSO is beyond your reach in S'pore? Wonder how portable is the 10"...?

Jun 15 - Did a quick scanning at Crux. Observed three sats passing through 5 degree FOV all within minutes of each other. The interesting sat is Nato 3D Rk that 'sliced' through Jewel Box on a SE direction. My unknown 'X' is still there but beyond the reach of the 100mm lens.(bad sky)

Jun 18 - My 2nd and 3rd Watec 902H arrived on 6/16 via UPS. First light tonite for my "Trio-Watec902H-70mm" f/1.8 setup. Also tested the newly bought faster 50mm f/1.3. This lens looks promising - the field is wider ( from 5 to 7 degree) and still I can see stars to mag +8.0. The 15" high res monitor is too small for a quad-added views. Will attempt viewing on a 29" TV screen.

Jun 19 - Taking adavantage of a break in the cloud the late rising moon, did a quick scan at Crux. LM of the system is +9.10. My unknown 'X' is still there both with the 75mm and the 20-100mm zoom. Still puzzle.