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ABOUT ME Hi! My name is James Kevin Ty. My interest are astronomy, photography
During the year 1985, I joined the Philippine Astronomical Society and during that time, Comet Halley was around to keep us busy. I then bought a 50mm f/16 refractor on an altazimuth mount and was very excited to view the night sky. When I turn the scope to the planet Saturn, I was very delighted to see this ringed planet! Although the view was only 100x, the small image of this planet had forever etched into my mind. Next comes the famous M42, the Great Orion Nebula, in the constellation of Orion. I was disappointed to know that there was no color in this nebula! I thought that my scope was damaged as it was not showing me what I saw in my astro books. I learned later that the photos in the books were taken with film, which is more sensitive than our naked eye to capture the colors. During my early stage being a member of the society, Edwin Aguirre and Imelda Joson had taught me to be serious in this field and I really thank them for it. Both of them are now residing in the U.S. and are working in the Sky & Telescope magazine as associate editor and photo editor respectively. I also met Jun Lao and he gave me some ideas on how to photograph the stars, thus saved me a lot of time to start from scratch. I later developed my skills in astrophotography and had been shooting deep sky objects, comets, planets, eclipses, etc. when the weather is clear during weekends. After observing the total solar eclipse in General Santos , Cotabato last March 18, 1988, I got hooked to observing more solar eclipse in which I was able to leads several PAS eclipse expeditions in 1995 at Khon Buri, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand; 1997 at Darhan, Mongolia; 1998 at Pulau Dayang, Malaysia and 1999 in Stuttgart, Germany.In 1998, James decided to setup PHILASTRO-FORUM MAILING LIST so that local amateur astronomers can have a mailin glist to discuss and share their astro experiences on any astro related topics. He also was resposible in setting up the first PAS webpage that introduces the society to the cyber world also on that year. The PAS awarded me the Padre Faura Astronomy Medal Award in the year 2000. James was the president of PAS from 1997-2003. In 2000, James decided to switch to digital astrophotography and started out with using a Nikon Coolpix 995 compact digicam to shoot his favorite subject, the Sun as well as high resolution lunar imaging. After getting acquainted to the compact point and shoot digicam, he made another jump into the Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera in 2003 and use it to image deep sky objects such as nebula, galaxies, star clusters as well as solar system objects such as Moon, Sun, comets, etc. He is the first one in the country to use the DSLR system in doing astrophotography. He later also added computer color webcam such as the Toucam Pro 740K and monochrome ATK-1HS II to image the planets as well as solar and lunar work. Also that year, James as well as 12 other amateur astronomers set up the Astronomical League of the Philippines, Inc (ALP) way back in 2003 and was president of the organization since its inception. His future plan is to lead another total solar eclipse expedition team specially with members of the ALP to the July 22, 2009 Total Solar Eclipse in Wuhan, China. James work as a Sales / Account Executive of Gainsway Marketing Corporation and Astra Paper Corporation. He also does professional technical consultancy for schools and other companies on astronomy-related projects and equipment acquisition. For inquiries, he can be reached at jkty@astrophotophils.com .
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and travels.
I started astronomy when I was still 11 years old. Between that time to around 1982, I
settled to learning the constellations, planets and the Moon using a pair of opera glass.
A year later, I saved a little money to buy myself a cheap 20x50 refractor. With this
scope, I viewed only the Moon and the bright stars. Eventually, I discover how bad
chromatic aberration ruin the image. I then urged my father to buy me a pair of 16x50
binoculars and I used this to further observe the bright star clusters and nebula.
