The second day of NEAIC, the East Coast’s largest conference for astroimagers, went off perfectly and without a hitch.
Christopher Go, talented astroimager from the Philippines, delivered a magnificently detailed, two-part talk on planetary imaging on the second day at NEAIC, April 27, 2012. // all photos by David J. Eicher
The meeting started early and featured a magnificently detailed, two-hour-long presentation by Philippine skyshooter Chris Go on high resolution planetary imaging. Chris’s masterful and artful shots of Jupiter, Saturn, and other planets are a delight to behold, and he shared many tips and techniques used for capturing his images with his own scopes and with professional research collaborations — including the Hubble Space Telescope. And as you will see in a video I shot that I will post upon my return to the
Astronomy offices, Chris declares he owes his interest in astroimaging to picking up a copy of
Astronomy magazine years ago.
Other talks were focused and covered quite a range of topics. Staff members of the Chroma Technology Corp. gave a technical presentation on filter characteristics. Neil Fleming spoke about color options for narrowband data. Intrepid astroimager Ron Diiulio again presented a series of introductory talks for those who are starting out with recording sky images. Jerry Lodgriguss spoke about his experiences with astroimaging, Fabian Neyer covered astro mosaics, and Sheldon Faworski talked about building his astrograph. It was a terrific and memorable morning and afternoon, and by mid-afternoon quite a few of us moved over to start assembling displays at the Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF), which begins Saturday morning at Rockland Community College.
Caroline Moore, who at age 14 in 2008 became the youngest person to discover a supernova, is raising funds to build a public observatory at her school, NEAIC, April 27, 2012.
I ran into many old friends today and had a blast catching up with them. Geoff Notkin of The Science Channel’s
Meteorite Men has a new book out — more on that later. Warren Keller was cheerful as always and helping to get the sessions set and off on time. Caroline Moore, who became the youngest person to discover a supernova back in 2008 [the record was broken in 2010], was all smiles, talking about her observatory fundraising project (more on that later, too). Dennis di Cicco from
Sky & Telescope was joking just as he did when I first met him years ago. A great day, and looking forward to the start of a great NEAF. Also, be sure to check out all the images from my trip to NEAIC and NEAF in our
Reader Photo Gallery.
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