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Astro-Imaging part 2 - Free public astronomy event
Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 8:00pm
Contact: Kevin Kemball, Secretary RASC Montreal, kkemball@sympatico.ca 514-337-6183
Location: John Abbott College, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Penfield Building Room #204
Address: 21,275 Lakeshore Road, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, H9X 3L9
Website: http://www.rascmontreal.org/
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) Montreal Centre is proud to present the next lecture in its Free Public Event Series.
Come join us for this lecture and find out how you too can rival the Hubble telescope.
Presenter: Luis Eguren
Abstract:
While you can image objects outside of the Earth's atmosphere in many different ways, this lecture focuses on using CCD cameras dedicated to astrophotography. In this overview we will familiarize you with the equipment and techniques that make CCD imaging reliable and that produce startling images.
Bio:
Luis is our centre's imaging guru due to his experience in imaging and the fabulous pictures that are the result.
Luis Eguren became a frustrated astronomer at age 13 because of a Tasco scope with a rickety mount.
In the early 80s, he got a "big" scope and started experimenting with a QuickCam. The first image of Jupiter with a QuickCam was the best he had taken, better than all those dozens of rolls of film. Then Luis moved on to Deep-Space Images - all those 45+ minute images on film just didn’t compare to the digital composite of 20 frames of 30 seconds each.
Now, he images using an ST-402. It is extremely sensitive and Luis loves to bug Marc Ricard, (who images with a camera), because after 10-second exposures he can pick off M51, while Marc is still trying to focus his DSLR.
Luis loves gadgets, especially hi-tech toys. His modus operandi has been driven by doing astronomy from his light polluted backyard without having his wife kill him for having expensive toys, (ie it better not cost more than a dozen boxes of kids diapers).