Outreach Report, Chiricahua National Monument, 10/21/2017
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By jambouk
We are running a session at my local society on transits and occultations. One station will focus on exoplanet transits, and we'd like to build a very simple model to demonstrate this. We have a star (light source) and an orbiting "planet" but I need to work out how to detect the changes in light intensity and display this on a laptop, like a classical transit photometry trace below (taken from https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/tess/primary-science.html).
Is there a way to take a feed from a DSLR through the USB output to do this, else I could get an adapter for my ZWO and put an EOS lens on the front of that. I really do want a light intensity vs time trace in real time on the laptop. This model will be run in a darkened room.
Thanks for any comments.
James
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By daz
A colleague at Bedford AS is now no longer able to attend Kelling.
Pitch is T374 on the Red Field, 26th to 30th Sept. Cost is £58 for the pitch.
If interested, please let me know and I will put you in touch with him
Thanks
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By ashortfallofgravitas
Hi folks
The group I am part of, called The Flame Trench, recently got a lot of interest in building a remotely accessible AP setup for people who follow us to get involved with. We'll be looking into using it for a lot of outreach, especially with a second telescope carrying out some live observing. More info on the build can be found here.
I thought I'd make a thread to show the build as we start to get hardware in and watch it progress!
Currently we have a Celestron 6SE w/ EQ-wedge, and a canon DSLR - looking at hooking that up to some web tools to enable some live observations to get the outreach part kicked off early. We'll be looking at somewhere to make the setup semi-permanent or entirely permanent once it's built.
I've attached our planned kitlist for the AP setup:
Thanks for having a look ?
Ben
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By Astrofriend
Hi all,
I wrote earlier about a Star Party here in Sweden, now I have been on a second one this year, the MAK or Mariestad Star Party.
I took some photos from the party and wrote some text to it for all people that couldn't visit the party, you can see them here:
http://www.astrofriend.eu/travel/sweden/mariestad-star-party-2018/mariestad-star-party-2018.html
There is also some photos from the travel to the party and back home.
I hope some of you can visit Sweden in the future.
BR
Lars
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By Rhushikesh-Canisminor
Hello!
So I need little bit help to make my solar outreach events better.
Usually most of my solarsolevents events have been for schools and little bit for general public But now I am going more towards college students and arranging events specific for solar observation. (It used to be more like complimentary with night sky observations)
Since I am not a science student (learning physics by myself only), I don't have exact idea about what topics should I cover in theory. (Also what should I learn as well)
Usually I take a projected image of the sun using my 90mm refractor and do H-alpha observation using my Lunt 50mm telescope. As for theory, I cover little bit about nuclear fusion, sun as a magnet, little bit about solar spectrum. If time allows then I refer Sun's images like magnetogram and all to have a better idea.
Any suggestions would be helpful! Because it looks like I am still the only one here taking H-alpha observationsobservation.
P.s. I will be putting up this question in solarchat as well. But more help will be better!
Thanks!
EDIT : currently I am thinking about adding a small radio telescope. Also, looking out for something to make so that I can see the solar spectrum much better.
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