Astronomy Fundamentals : Introducing the Seestar Smart Telescopes

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Astrophotography began with film cameras mounted on telescopes. Then the CCD camera allowed photographers to save digital files to computers and process the images by stacking and editing for quality. This is still how much astrophotography is done. But a new generation of chips and software has allowed a revolutionary kind of “smart” telescope. These are cameras within small telescopes that allow all functions, from go-to to tracking to stacking to image processing, to take place within the small body of the telescope. This has allowed even beginning amateurs to take stunning photographs of deep sky objects, as well as the Sun and Moon.

For this month’s Fundamentals talk, members Mark Kipperman and Bill Pardue will introduce one of these scopes, the ZWO Seestar, available in 30 mm and 50 mm models. They will show how easy they are to set up and use the app to take excellent photos right out of the box, and at a remarkably reasonable cost—even in light polluted skies.

This event is free and open to the public.

We will be in Room 254 at Grace United Methodist Church.

You may also like the following events from Naperville Astronomical Association:

• This Saturday, 10th January, 07:30 pm, Free Public Stargazing: Naperville Riverwalk in Naperville
• Next Tuesday, 13th January, 07:30 pm, NAA Monthly Meeting in Naperville
• This month, 24th January, 07:30 pm, Free Public Stargazing: Naperville Riverwalk in Naperville

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