Please join us on Saturday, January 9th at 7pm at the Pewaukee Library. Club member Scott Berg will give a talk entitled “The Life and Times of a Star” – A short discussion of the very long life of a celestial star.
The presentation is free, family-friendly and the general public are welcome!
Hope to see you there.
This Saturday from 11 to noon at the Pewaukee Library, Mike Paquette will give a talk called “Seasons and Constellations” Geared for ages 7 to 12, kids can come and see what causes our seasons, why the stars move like they do, and what constellations are visible in the night sky at various times of the year.
The observatory will be open tonight from 6:30 to 9:00 for public viewing in the large onference room. Club members will project live images from the telescope onto the view screen.
See you there!
Hello all! You have seen the nice image of Jupiter that we obtained with the telescope. On Saturday night, 7PM on October 10th, I am planning to do the talk specifically on Jupiter. It will make use of many of the great images from the Hubble as well as the many probes that have been sent to study Jupiter and its moons. Hope you can join us that night for some amazing images!
On Thursday night, 9/10/09, Mike Paquette and Randy Buchwald tried some webcam imaging of Jupiter using the Harken 12” scope.
A webcam is the same thing that you might have attached to your PC for Skype video contacts. While it is not as sensitive to light as the other cameras at the observatory but it is capable of continuously streaming frames to an AVI file on the computer. At 30 fps, those 2700 images may be grabbed in just a minute and a half. Jupiter is plenty bright to show up well using a webcam. Continue Reading…
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