astro-imaging : a society talk

[nytecam]

On Friday night I gave a PowerPoint illustrated talk to my local Society [Ewell AS] here in SW London on astro imaging.  It went down quite well and hopefully more members will try their hand despite the high levels of LP hereabout ;-)  This is a rundown of topics... 

astro-imaging for everyone !
1 – choose your camera
2 - shooting the day/night sky with a digital camera
3 - ‘Barndoor’ mount to track the stars
4 - afocal imaging eg camera coupled to ‘scope eyepiece
5 - webcam on ‘scope for sun, moon and planets
6 - deepsky imaging of faint galaxies and nebulae
7 - my kind of deepsky viewing & imaging !
8 - parting shot – science fun (and fame!) for the amateur

I naturally gave a plug for my type of deepsky laptop viewing and imaging in very brief exposures suited to suburbia !

Most of our members are not observers and a couple questions afterwards highlighted that.....

"Was my pics of distant Eris down to luck ?" - no very carefully planned ! 

"The quasar at extreme range of 12 BLY - they're gone now?" - most probably they're still there but we're uneasy about things surviving our mortality on a major scale ! 

We're planning our society's 50yrs anniversary in October - my own membership is short of that by just 18 months. 

Do you give talks to your society ?

Nytecam

[JeremyS]

Looks an interesting and useful talk, Maurice.

Congrats to Ewell AS on the half-Century!

All the best,

Jeremy

[ollypenrice]

"Was my pics of distant Eris down to luck ?" -

Nytecam

I hope you didn't choke!!!

Olly

[nytecam]

Thanks Jeremy - good wishes for your stewardship over the new two years for the Association :-)

No Olly - that would be impolite - he's our resident unintentional joker that we humour :-)

Nytecam