![]() Next month Bill Coombes’ talk will be on the International Space Station. I sometimes wonder how we manage to pack so much in to the evening! Also available in a larger 'Jumbo' format. Many thanks to all the contributors, to Zena and Annabelle and to all who helped with the ‘housekeeping’ chores. The best selling star atlas featuring 80 star charts, over 30,000 stars to mag. Ken also illustrated and described the equipment he uses including several of the DIY electronic elements he constructed for controlling the scope and imaging. Author sreiny Posted on JJTags SARP Search for: Search NASA’s view from space shows our planet is changing, but to really understand the nitty-gritty of these changes and what they mean for our future, scientists need a closer look. Ken Honour shared his superb images of the Whirlpool, Needle and Blackeye galaxies as well as NBL_618, Cave, NGC7380, NGC7000 and the Heart nebulae. Given that the transit time was 0.5 seconds this was quite a feat! Expand the limits of your own understanding, and also find explanations for using deconvolution to recover information in deep-sky images, a guide to eyepieces for planetary observing, helpful hints on aiming your scope at the Sun (if it has a solar filter, of course), and more, in the July 2017 issue of Sky & Telescope. ![]() She’d captured this with a 600mm lens on her Canon DSLR. Jan Wrightson treated us to a great image of the ISS transiting the sun. We were encouraged to observe that colourful double star Albiero (Beta Cygni) at the head of the swan and which is well placed for viewing now. Clean only when absolutely necessary and then with great care.ĭuring the break Caroline Clements impressed many interested members by showing how easy it was to set up and use her Celestron NexStar ‘scope.Īrthur Davis presented Cygnus as the Constellation of the month featuring NGC7000 the North America nebula and IC5070 Pelican Nebula. One thread that emerged was that ‘if it ‘aint broke don’t fix it’ especially when it comes to a bit of dust on mirrors and lenses. ![]() Bud led the question and answer session, covering topics like the cleaning of lenses and eyepieces, collimation and polar aligning. As Mike Witt our scheduled speaker couldn’t make it, we decided to use the time to talk about the care and use of equipment. Miller (born December 26, 1990), professionally known as Illenium (stylized in all caps), is an American musician, DJ, music producer, and songwriter.He has released five studio albums, his most recent being Illenium, released in April 2023.
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