How can I practice Astronomy in the cloudy country like Malaysia?
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I live in Washington State USA & have the same problem as you trying to observe the stars in this land of clouds. Here is the best way. Always have your astronomical gear at the ready to transport to your favorite dark sky, higher altitude observing site.a hatchback car is nice & shouldn't call for a larger vehicle. On the spur of the moment when the skies clear, be on your way to observe! You must do it this way in a cloudy clime. If you plan for future days to observe, you will lose 75% of your nights because of clouds. Yes, this means that astronomy observing must be highly prized in your life. Don't worry. It will pay off. You will have viewpoints, emotionally, mentally & literally in your life to develop a powerful philosophy. Get ready to be surprised by the universe & life. As best you can, share the stars with a friend(who also can take off at a moments notice.ha ha ha).
Poorly?
you could go for infra red or radio astronomy or get yourself a very long conventional telescope!
Apply for telescope time elsewhere. Or use archived data, or you could do radio astronomy, which doesn't require clear skies. Or solar or gamma ray or xray astronomy, which use satillites for observations.
Prof, assuming you have a portable 'conventional' optical telescope, you'll need to camp out at the top of the Cameron Highlands (or if you're in Borneo, the top of Mount Kinabalu in Sabah) and rely on your weather forecasters to get it right.
Your best chance of success will depend on how much patience you possess. It's a time-consuming and at times very frustrating practice.
You can also pick up hints from the web-community at NASA's http://www.space.com/
Or keep an eye on the European Space Agency at http://www.esa.int/
All the best, Prof,
Robin McKay
Scotland, UK
This is the same problem I have in London but here it is light pollution that reduces my view of the magical universe.
I view the moon and sun (with eye protection) and a few stars and ISS.
The program Starry Night has full colour photographs of the entire night sky from any location.
I use this program to see what I am missing.
The catalog used for guiding Hubble is on line. You can access a large number of stellar data bases selecting on various characteristics: spectral class, absolute or apparent magnitude, variable type, distance, declination, etc etc. NASA has posted just about all the photos taken by spacecraft of the asteroids, moons and planets that have been visited. www.spaceweather.com and other sites have the Sun. So you aren't guiding the telescope, but you can see just about everything others have photographed for you. Wikipedia has entries for a good many individual stars, and of course for planets and moons, with links to scientific sites.
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