Let us show you how to make the most out of your telescope. The aim of this Astro Café is to help you get the most out of your new telescope.īring your telescope to the 2nd annual How to Use a Telescope workshop and experts from the RASC will help you learn how to use it. It’s a common complaint among first-time telescope owners: “I’ve got this new telescope and I can’t see a thing through it”. Posted in Astro Café, Eventĭid you get a telescope for Christmas but you aren’t quite sure how to use it? Ken will present how to use AstroTortilla with BackyardEOS: What you need before you start, Plate solving, Configuring the libraries, Getting the image to solve, Talking to your mount. This enables you to automatically and quickly do things like calibrate your GoTo tracking mount, GoTo any target with arcsecond accuracy and measure your polar alignment error. With plate solving, AstroTortilla can on its own figure out where your telescope is pointed. Ken Gehring will present AstroTortilla, a helper application that brings plate solving to your astrophotography workflow. Getting Things Lined Up With AstroTortilla Do you want to know the temp of the sensor chip in your camera, do you want to record outside temp, humidity and dew point? Would you like to do a drift alignment before you start shooting? Do you want to record video, even from a camera that doesn’t do live view? All for $50 USD, BackyardEOS and BackyardNikon, from O’Telescope Corporation, based in Ottawa (the developer is Guylain Rochon). Connect your camera, define your target, establish time and ISO, figure out how many frames to capture, do Live View to frame and focus. It started out purely for Canon DSLRs but has now expanded to include Nikon. Kent Martens will present BackyardEOS, an image capture program for use on your laptop. Presented by RASC members Kent Martens and Ken Gehring. If taking Anthony Henday Drive, get off at the 97th Street interchange and turn left (north). The hall will be on the left side of the road. When you reach the lights at Highway 37, turn right (east) and continue 500m. Take 97th Street straight north out of the city.
The terrain just north of the community hall drops off into the Sturgeon River valley, yielding a nice flat horizon to view the NLC. If the weather looks good, stick around for evening twilight and we’ll collectively scan the sky for these mysterious clouds. Then find out about searching for NLC on images generated at numerous airports across the country. Next, learn about Mike Noble’s earnest NLC-searching regimen, driving to many sites to catch NLC displays with his bevy of cameras. The ideal dates to look for them are mid June to mid July, so come and celebrate the start of NLC peak season on June 22! The evening kicks off with a brief overview of NLC. Noctilucent clouds (NLC) are a sky-high phenomenon best-suited for observing right here in northern Alberta. Presented by RASC members Mike Noble and Mark Zalcik. My Personal Five-Year Chase of NLC/Searching for NLC with Airport Cameras
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