Practical Astronomy July – Sky Charting Software
The topic for this month will be Sky Charting Software. Sky Charting software can be used for planning your observing sessions, previewing Sky Events and even telescope and dome control […]
The topic for this month will be Sky Charting Software. Sky Charting software can be used for planning your observing sessions, previewing Sky Events and even telescope and dome control […]
Names and Catalogues In this talk we will be discussing the IAU naming conventions for celestial objects along with the star and deep sky catalogues commonly encountered by amateur astronomers. […]
The Spring Night Sky This will be one of our quarterly planetarium sessions where we will review the Spring Night Sky. The the weather is suitable we will follow the […]
This month's talk will be about the various types of telescope mounting systems and how they are used.
Observation of variable stars has a long history with amateur astronomy. We will discuss the types of variable stars and how to observe them to obtain scientifically useful data. This […]