Posts Made By: Alex McConahay

And a bit of the color around Rho and Antares.

Canon 450, 12 x 5 minutes, ISO 800. GM-8 unguided. 75-300 Canon zoom at 75, F5.6.

Alex

And a bit of the color around Rho and Antares

Canon 450, 12 x 5 minutes, ISO 800. GM-8 unguided. 75-300 Canon zoom at 75, F5.6.

Alex

The Riverside AstroImaging Workshop will be back the day before PATS, September 25, at the Pasadena Convention Center.
RAW2009 will expand on its quite successful 2008 debut with special presentations for "Affordable" imaging with basic equipment, processing skills and software, and "Advanced" imaging, for those with some experience and specialized hardware.

Presenters include:

Don Goldman (Astrodon): "Narrow Band Imaging 101"
Bryan Cogdell (Orion): "Selecting Affordable Equipment," "Image Acquisition," "Processing Basics"
Kevin Nelson (QSI): "Bias and Darks and Flats, Oh My! - The How and Why of Image Calibration"
Greg Fisch: "Imaging for Everyone: Tools for Quality Images on Your First
Attempt," "Handling High Dynamic Range Images: How to Pack 65536 items into 256"
Daniel Mounsey ("Dr. D"): "Choosing and Using High End Equipment"
And more…...

You can find out information about the imaging workshop to
be held the Friday before PATS at ......

http://rivastro.org/raw_registrationnew.html

Hope to see you all there.

Alex

The Riverside AstroImaging Workshop will be back the day before PATS, September 25, at the Pasadena Convention Center.
RAW2009 will expand on its quite successful 2008 debut with special presentations for "Affordable" imaging with basic equipment, processing skills and software, and "Advanced" imaging, for those with some experience and specialized hardware.

Presenters include:

Don Goldman (Astrodon): "Narrow Band Imaging 101"
Bryan Cogdell (Orion): "Selecting Affordable Equipment," "Image Acquisition," "Processing Basics"
Kevin Nelson (QSI): "Bias and Darks and Flats, Oh My! - The How and Why of Image Calibration"
Greg Fisch: "Imaging for Everyone: Tools for Quality Images on Your First
Attempt," "Handling High Dynamic Range Images: How to Pack 65536 items into 256"
Daniel Mounsey ("Dr. D"): "Choosing and Using High End Equipment"
And more…...

You can find out information about the imaging workshop to
be held the Friday before PATS at ......

http://rivastro.org/raw_registrationnew.html

Hope to see you all there.

Alex

The Riverside AstroImaging Workshop will be back the day before PATS, September 25, at the Pasadena Convention Center.
RAW2009 will expand on its quite successful 2008 debut with special presentations for "Affordable" imaging with basic equipment, processing skills and software, and "Advanced" imaging, for those with some experience and specialized hardware.

Presenters include:

Don Goldman (Astrodon): "Narrow Band Imaging 101"
Bryan Cogdell (Orion): "Selecting Affordable Equipment," "Image Acquisition," "Processing Basics"
Kevin Nelson (QSI): "Bias and Darks and Flats, Oh My! - The How and Why of Image Calibration"
Greg Fisch: "Imaging for Everyone: Tools for Quality Images on Your First
Attempt," "Handling High Dynamic Range Images: How to Pack 65536 items into 256"
Daniel Mounsey ("Dr. D"): "Choosing and Using High End Equipment"
And more…...

You can find out information about the imaging workshop to
be held the Friday before PATS at ......

http://rivastro.org/raw_registrationnew.html

Hope to see you all there.

Alex

Phil,

Do you mean that you don not see the APOD in the first column over on the side of the main Forum web page, or that you see it, and click on it, but it takes you nowhere? Or what?

I do not see any difference in the way it is operating.

Alex

My buddies and I from the Riverside Astronomical Society have started a Blog about the upcoming adventure to China and other places to see the eclipse.

You can find it at

http://raswanderers.blogspot.com/

Hope you enjoy it.

Alex

Check your security software and see if for some reason it is not allowing pictures or some other type of display.

Are yo having problems displaying any other types of images or anything?

Alex

Any Sidewalk Astronomers out there want to participate in an outreach opportunity in Pasadena on the three weekends leading up to PATS?

Specifically, the Paseo Colorado (the shopping mall just north of the hall where they hold PATS) is planning a series of activities leading up to PATS weekend. There are details below--suffice it to say that this is sidewalk astronomy at its best. It just so happens that it takes place the three weekends leading up to PATS.

I'm looking for people to commit to bringing a set of telescopes out to Pasadena one of those weekends? It is no cost to you, and they'll even pick up the parking.

Note that this same event is taking place at the Long Beach Pike in August if you would like another outreach opportunity.

Alex


Details:

Paseo Colorado is the mall of stores and restaurants that runs north of the Pasadena Convention Center. It is owned and managed by a large real estate firm: Developers Diversified Realty.

This company manages many such malls around the country. Some of them (like Paseo Colorado and The Pike in Long Beach) are "lifestyle" malls.

The company occasionally puts on cultural/community/public relations events at their malls.

They have purchased copies of "The World At Night" and assigned them to their various malls.

The World At Night (TWAN) is a program to produce and present a collection of stunning photographs and time-lapse videos of the world’s landmarks against the celestial attractions. The eternally peaceful sky looks the same above symbols of all nations and regions, attesting to the truly unified nature of Earth as a planet rather than an amalgam of human-designated territories. [More]


You can see more about TWAN at http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/index.asp

We are very fortunate to have Paseo Colorado's dates with this exhibit scheduled the weeks running up to and including PATS.

Among the plans (which have not yet come to fruition) are a fashion show, outdoor display, a tent display......all of which are somewhat outside of our area of expertise.

Where we would be expected to help is with what is pretty much a standard outreach for our various clubs. Specifically, on Friday's and Saturday nights the few weeks before PATS, Paseo Colorado would provide us space to set up for Sidewalk Astronomy. This is what we do quite often anyway--so it should not be too difficult to arrange.

Paseo Colorado has been working with some other local organizations (JPL, etc) to participate in this effort.

There would be no cost to us to set up, etc. They have offered free parking and can set up tables for us. We can pass out literature and so forth.

As the Pacific Astronomy and Telescope Show (September 26-27, Pasadena, CA) approaches, I thought I'd keep you up to date.

Full information is at telescopeshow.com.

As of last week, 70 or so vendor booths had been reserved, with about a dozen left.

The Imaging Workshop for the Friday before PATS was filling up, with the deadline for reduced price places approaching soon(see links at rivastro.org).

The speakers are all lined up, with Apollo Astronaut Rusty Schweickhart on Saturday afternoon, Observer Steve O'Meara on Sunday afternoon, and the rest not yet assigned times.

The Paseo Colorado event, which is being coordinated with PATS, promises other activities--including some sidewalk astronomy for which we will need some volunteers.

Alex