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August 2018
LDAS Monthly Meeting
Tonights talk is about "Modern Meteor Astronomy" and will be given by Nick James. The meeting will be at the Free Church Hall. Every time we see a shooting star flash across the sky we are seeing a small grain of extraterrestrial dust burning up in our atmosphere. Most of that dust comes from comets which lay down dust trails around the solar system. Using TV imaging systems amateurs now have the ability to accurately characterise the orbits of these…
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Astrophotography Meeting
If you are interested in starting, or improving your astrophotography skills, come along to the Jester Hotel and have a drink and a chat with fellow astrophotographers.
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'Deep Sky Image Processing' by Nik Szymanek. During the talk Nik will explain how to calibrate CCD images and the creation of LRGB and narrowband images with of software programs like Maxim DL, FITS Liberator and Adobe Photoshop. The talk is not technical and is suitable for all comers. Lots of pretty piccies too...... There will be a break for refreshments and an update on recent astronomy news. Members £2, non members £3.
Find out more »October 2018
Astrophotography Meeting
If you are interested in starting, or improving your astrophotography skills, come along to the Jester Hotel and have a drink and a chat with fellow astrophotographers.
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Dr Dirk Froebrich on the subject of 'HOYS CAPS'. We have recently discovered that the young star V1490Cyg (20:50:53.6 +44:21:01, situated in the Pelican Nebula IC5070) is periodically occulted by material in its circumstellar disk. This is a project amateurs can make observations to support the University of Kents observing project. HOYS CAPS is a citizen science project = Hunting Outbursting Young Stars with the Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences, at the University of Kent There will also be society news,…
Find out more »November 2018
Astrophotography Meeting
If you are interested in starting, or improving your astrophotography skills, come along to the Jester Hotel and have a drink and a chat with fellow astrophotographers.
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Tonights talk will be given by Colin Stuart, title tbc. There will be society news, an astronomy update and refreshments will be served. Members £2, non members £3.
Find out more »December 2018
Astrophotography Meeting
If you are interested in starting, or improving your astrophotography skills, come along to the Jester Hotel and have a drink and a chat with fellow astrophotographers.
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