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General Meeting
Wednesday, July 10th, 2013, 7:00pm,
at the Seminole State College Planetarium.

Board Meeting
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013, 7:00pm,
at Dan's Restaurant on 17/92, Longwood, FL.

Information on and directions to our meetings.

Presentations and programs for our 2013 general meetings.

Seminole State College Planetarium evening shows Friday and Saturday Evenings at 8:30 p.m.

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Night Watch   15 May 2013

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New ASTROLOG has been Published

New Quarterly ASTROLOG has been published. Check it out: http://www.cfas.org/filemgmt_data/files/Astrolog%20Volume%2038%20Quarter%201.pdf

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Astronomy at Our National parks

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Many of our National parks are great astronomy observing sites.  Read on to see which ones are the best

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Free Astronomy Course

Free Online State-of-the-Art Astronomy Course from Dr. Chris Impey
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This course with Professor Impey and a team of instructors from Seward Observatory starts March 25th! 

Access the free online course and outline here:
https://www.udemy.com/astronomy-state-of-the-art/

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CFAS Receives Certificate of Appreciation from NASA's Space Place

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NASA's Space Place a NASA public education and outreach program, recognizes the Central Florida Astronomical Society for its valuable contributions to its community in the areas of science, technology education and inspiration.

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ESA/Hubble News 5 Feb 2013

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5 February 2013 — ESA/Hubble Photo Release heic1302

A spiral galaxy with a secret

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Top Astronomical Events for 2013

Observing News

 Top Astronomical Events for 2013

This webpage is a well put calendar for a year long of Astronomical Events for you to observe. Complete with images and diagrams.

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Hubble Free E books

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if you have an iPad you be interested in the following new iBooks from Hubble:

December 21, 2012

New Free iBooks Available about Two Famous NASA Space Telescopes

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Find the entire Hubble News archive, image galleries, and much more at hubblesite.org

 

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New Free E-books Available about Two Famous NASA Space Telescopes

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been providing astounding images of the universe since April 1990 and has led to remarkable discoveries. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the next-generation telescope that will peer even deeper into space and unveil even more mysteries. Both of these extraordinary telescopes are now the topics of two free e-books available from the Apple iBookstore.

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The books are also are available in .pdf format, but have no interactive movies.

 

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Moon certificate help

Observing News

CFAS supports the Lunar Society Moon Observing Certificate Program.   So far only one of our members, Wayne Frey,  has completed this program.  Wayne found this to be a most interesting and challenging program that has changed his whole attitude and interest in viewing the moon.  He is sure if you complete  this program you will get hooked on observing the moon frequently.

Wayne has written the following article to help CFAS members more easily complete the Certificate.

 

MOON CERTIFICATE HELP
 
By Wayne Frey
 
Having recently completed the Moon certificate program, I would like to share some of the resources I used to complete it with other club members. www.moonsociety.org shows the current phase of the moon, percent illuminated and what to look for on the moon tonight. I found the first two very helpful in planning my observing for the day or evening. Yes the Moon list will require some daytime observations. It was pretty awesome to set up the scope in the afternoon.
 
www.astrosurf.com/cidadao/moonlight.htm is a great photographic atlas of the moon. Each object in the atlas has a 3 panel finder card that appears when you click on the features name. It helped me verify that I was truly looking at the correct crater. It can get confusing at times, especially if you are in a heavily cratered area of the moon.
 
www.lunasociety.org/atlas/index.shtml This is another photographic atlas that allows the user to click on a grid map of the moon. As you move the cursor over the photo, the name of the feature pops up. It helps narrow down the area you want to be in when looking for a specific feature.
 
http://the-moon.wikispace.com/introduction is another great photographic atlas of the moon with the features listed alphabetically. Click on the features name that you are looking for and up pops a photo of it. Yet another tool to verify that you are looking at the correct target.
 
Still another excellent site is the following: http://planetarynames.wv.usgs.gov/page.moon1to1mShadeRelief?map=lo These photos were taken by the lunar orbiter, which is about 22 miles above the surface of the moon, great detail.
 
If you have a windows based PC then www.inconstantmoon.com may be your choice for a lunar atlas. I used http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualmoon   It is a fast download and it is still on my computer for a quick reference when looking at the moon. There are many others out there, you just have to look until you find one or two that suits you. I used three of these to complete my lunar certificate.
 
Wayne Frey
 

 

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Herschel 400 observing certificate help

 I have been working on the Herschel 400 observing certificate for several years. You can find the list at:

www.astroleaque.org/obsclubs/herschel/h400lstc.html 

You can choose to print it out in numerical order or by constellation. I printed both and us the first as a master log to keep track of my observed objects. I use the "by constellation" list to organize my observation list for the night.

 

To aid in locating the object with a push-to scope I found this web site helpful as it has finder charts for all as well as an atlas.  www.astronomylogs.com  

 

Because the astro leaque wants sketchs as well as documentation as to when, where, equipment used, etc. I found this web site with pdf sample log sheets.

www.perezmedia.net/beltofvenus/templates/html

I use the condensed observation record sheet because you get 5 per page and I printed it on both sides. Remember you have 400 targets to log and that is a lot of paper.

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