Northern Virginia Astronomy Club

Northern Virginia Astronomy Club
NOVAC astrophotographers, Mitch Stover, Chris Kagy, and Juan Marin Otero presented an engaging discussion of astrophotography – how they got started, what they recommend for new amateurs, and decisions they made on gear selection, techniques, and targets. This promises to be a great way for beginners to see how it’s done and discover a roadmap for themselves on how to get started with a challenging but very rewarding aspect of our astronomy hobby.
NOVAC 202209 Astrophotography Presentation
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Panel on Sketching at the Telescope with Cindy Krach, Bob Bunge & Dan Ward
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Paul Derby give us an amazing presentation on his journey with the eVscope by UnStellar. How he backed the making of the telescope to its use and impact on outreach.
Two Years with a UniStellar eVscope by Paul Derby
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Touring the Universe through Binoculars Atlas: philharrington.net/tuba.htm Aging and Dark Adaptation (Vision Research, Nov 1999): pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10748929/ Manfrotto 475B Tripod: manfrotto.com/us-en/black-aluminum-black-pro-geared-tripod-w-column-475b/ Manfrotto 502AH Video Head: manfrotto.com/us-en/502-fluid-video-head-with-flat-base-mvh502ah/ Oberwerk Multi-Reticle Finder Mount: oberwerk.com/product/oberwerk-finder-mount Astronomy Shoppe BinoBrac-U2: astronomy-shoppe.com/?page_id=192&doing_wp_cron=1661157407.7276740074157714843750 SmallRig Super Camera Clamp Mount: smallrig.com/clamp-mount-v1-w-ball-head-mount-and-coolclamp-1124.html Contact Phil Harrington: philharrington.net Steve Tonkin's Binocular Sky: binocularsky.com
AHSP 2022 Binocular Challenge by Phil Harrington, FRAS
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“Creating Stunning Star Trails” covers everything needed to create star trails images. Mary takes us through framing and composition, camera settings, instructions on using free star trails software, basic image processing, and how to create a time lapse video of your beautiful star trails. Mary’s PDF star trails photography guide will be provided after the talk. https://bit.ly/3Cn8lHK - pdf of star trail summary notes
Creating Stunning Star Trails by Mary McIntyre, FRAS
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Terry Cabell give us an amazing tour of astro equipment that you should think about bringing to a Star Party!
AHSP Astro Prep - Musing of an accidental astronomy ninja!
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Alex Gorbachev gave a great presentation on what you should bring and how to prepare for AHSP especially from the camping aspect. Great tips and tricks and what to bring and what to bring to AHSP!
AHSP Camping Checklist
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Chris Lee and Jeff Ball give an 101 style introduction on what to expect coming to AHSP. The video includes directions, and video on the best ways to come up to SKMC for AHSP. To top it off Jeff Ball shows us what some of the views can be at night time! Links below! An Introduction to the Almost Heaven Star Party (Slide 3) - https://youtu.be/JiX1xoSrgsQ Monongahela Milky Way (End of Presentation) - https://youtu.be/ghaJIfm1fTE?t=240
AHSP An Introduction
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Planets in our solar system can be divided into rocky terrestrials as large as the Earth vs. gassy giants as small as Neptune. Planets outside of our solar system, on the other hand, look nothing like our own, with most of these detected exoplanets falling right in between the size of the Earth and Neptune. How can we understand such differences? Dr. Lee describes the underlying physics that drives the huge diversity in the observed exoplanetary population and discuss how future missions can help us better understand the formation and evolution of solar and extrasolar planets. Bio: Dr. Eve Lee is an Assistant Professor of Physics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She received her Hon. BSc in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Toronto, PhD in Astrophysics at UC Berkeley, and spent two years as a Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech before taking up the faculty position at McGill in 2019. At McGill, Dr. Lee leads a theoretical astrophysics group specializing in the formation of stars and planets. She was recently awarded the 2022 Annie Jump Cannon Award from the AAS.
Planets Big and Small - Eve Lee, Ph.D. for NOVAC July 2022 Meeting
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