Come join us at OMSI for our monthly meeting and guest lecture from Richard Berry. Richard is an astrophotographer, author of several books about telescopes and astrophotography, and former editor of Astronomy magazine.
𝘾𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣'𝙨 𝙊𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙊𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙏𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙨 with Richard Berry
Smart telescopes have made observing easier and accessible to a wider audience in a wider range of sky conditions. These scopes combine several modalities of previous scopes -- they consist of a small aperture telescope with a color camera that stacks short-exposure images and presents the final stacked image to the observer through a small screen built into an "eyepiece", through an app on the observer's phone, or through an app on their computer. These scopes are fully automated. They orient themselves and locate objects themselves, finding objects of interest from extensive databases. Some also offer opportunities to participate in collective campaigns to gather scientific data.
This approach to observing is called electronically-assisted astronomy (EAA) and provides views that are better than those seen with the naked eye, even from suburban locations.
This month's speaker will be Richard Berry. Richard is an expert observer, a compelling speaker, a renowned author, and the developer of a popular software package for astronomical image processing called AIP4Win. Richard has had a wonderful career in astronomy and we're extremely fortunate to have him in our club. He has been exploring this new type of scope for quite awhile now and it will be very interesting to hear what he has learned.
His description of his presentation is below. It would be great to have you join us!
𝘈 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦: 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰-𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 "𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘴." 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵, 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘵-𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢, 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘢 𝘞𝘪-𝘍𝘪 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 "𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴" 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴, 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘬𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴. 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴: 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘡𝘞𝘖 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘦𝘝𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯. -Richard Berry
𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲
Richard Berry has been an amateur astronomer since he got glasses in the fifth grade and could see stars in the sky. He has earned an MSc degree in astronomy, designed rocket payloads, served as Editor of Astronomy magazine, and authored books about telescopes, observing, and image processing. For the last 18 months, he's been an Origin beta tester, helping to shake the bugs out of this great little 'scope's software.
𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬:
Social time from 7 to 7:30
Main meeting starts at 7:30
Location: OMSI Auditorium
Parking instructions: See below
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 from 6:30 to 7:30
Location: Planetarium
Topic: Sky Atlases and the RCA Library
Speakers: Margaret McCrea and Mathew Brock
𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 is currently on hiatus. Meetings will be announced separately and held online until September.
𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐎𝐌𝐒𝐈
OMSI is partnered with Parking Kitty, the city of Portland's official mobile parking app. Parking rates are $5 + fees for 2 hours, $8 + fees for all-day parking, or $2 + fees for parking after 5 p.m. Members can pay for parking via the Parking Kitty app (parkingkitty.com), or mobile kiosks on the front plaza (credit card only). Strongly encourage you to download the app in advance. The North Lot code is ZONE 72000 and South Lot ZONE 72001.
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