Dr. Barbara Harris, a CFAS member, discovers star U Scorpii nova eruption. See the story here from Sky & Telescope: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/83025892.html or as posted on this website's Downloads section.
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Information on and directions to our meetings. Presentations and programs for our 2010 general meetings. Seminole State College Planetarium evening shows Friday and Saturday Evenings at 8:30 p.m. |
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Dr. Barbara Harris, a CFAS member, discovers star U Scorpii nova eruption. See the story here from Sky & Telescope: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/83025892.html or as posted on this website's Downloads section.
CFAS Volunteers are needed to become Robinson Observatory Operators. For information goto this post: http://www.cfas.org/index.php?topic=ObservingSites
The February 10th CFAS General Meeting will feature guest speaker Gil Gagne describing the various concepts that go into a "goto" telescope, and will give a PowerPoint presentation on the design and construction of his own hand-made 12" goto telescope, including the grinding and figuring of the mirror, adding stepper motors, encoders, microprocessor, and programming. Gil is very interested in motivating others to get into the interesting field of Amateur Telescope Making. CFAS General Meetings are held at the Seminole State College Planetarium on every second Wednesday of the month, begin at 7 p.m., and are free and open to the public.
CFAS owns and maintains numerous telescopes. You can find details about these telescopes at this web site: http://www.cfas.org/filemgmt_data/files/CFAS%20Telescopes.pdf .
These telescopes are maintained in two categories; Outreach and Loaner telescopes.
Loaner telescopes are available to be checked out from the observing committee for up to 30 days. Check outs are normally scheduled at the monthly meetings although special arrangements can be made. CFAS members can reserve telescopes by posting on the CFAS Telescope Forum: http://www.cfas.org/forum/index.php?forum=16
Outreach telescopes are very high end telescopes that are used during our Outreach observing events, and are maintained by CFAS members. These telescopes are normally avaiable for viewing objects during monthly observing sessions. Please make it a point to spend some time observing through them at our sessions.
If you have questions please contact the observing chairman: raygjones@earthlink.net .
This video was recently on NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day; it's a simulated fly-through of the visible universe reminiscent of the Powers of 10 book/movie. Enjoy your flight.
