This month's speaker at the September 14 GAAC meeting will be a club favorite, our own long-time member Gary Meehan.
Gary has been taking photos of the night sky using remote, robotic telescopes located out in the Sacramento Mountains of southern New Mexico for a couple of years now. He's imaged comets, emission nebulae, star clusters and galaxies, using none of his own equipment other than a computer.
At this month's GAAC meeting, he'll explain the advantages of taking this approach, and explain how you can do this too.
He'll give us a quick overview of the New Mexico facility, and show how to go about planning an imaging session, including the need to use different sorts of tools to monitor the remote weather conditions, and demonstrate an imaging session. If time permits, Gary will show you how to go about forming a final color picture from a series of images taken through several filters.There's a map and directions to the meeting on our Contact page. We meet at 8:00 pm.