On Aug 9, 2021, at 12:44 PM, Mike Kristosik <mikekristosik@...> wrote:

Hi fellow Astronomers,

The Heart of the Valley Astronomers monthly meeting is almost here.  We have exciting news to share with you regarding this meeting.  We have a guest speaker, Jared Males, for our August meeting.  Jared is going to  talk about "Imaging Exoplanets and Searching for Life with the Giant Magellan Telescope".  Jared is the Principal Investigator of he NSF funded extreme adaptive optics system MagAO-X, which is used at the Magellan Clay 6.5 m telescope in Chile.  He is co-leading the development of a concept, currently called GMagAO-X for a 21,000 actuator ExAO system on the Giant Magellan Telescope which will enable the search for life on the nearest terrestrial planets when the GMT is completed.  There will be plenty of time for questions and answers.  

Because of Jared's talk our agenda for August will be adjusted to accommodate the length of the presentation.  So, the agenda will look like this;

Announcements - We have a few things to bring you up to speed on

Updates - Upcoming virtual astronomy classes; Upcoming virtual star parties

Presentation - Dr. Jared Males:  Imaging exoplanets and searching for life with the Giant Magellan Telescope

If time permits we'll add the following to our meeting agenda;

What's up in the sky this month?

This month's constellation

Sharing

Here's to an exciting HVA meeting for August 2021!  Below is the Zoom information;

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Mike Kristosik - President, Heart of the Valley Astronomers

Bernie is back!

One of the Eugene Astronomical Society's most popular speakers is back for our July EAS meeting. Bernie Bopp will be teaching us all about neutrinos. But I'll let him tell you about it.

 

Neutrino Astronomy or

Why Spend Time and Big Bucks Looking for (nearly) Massless Subatomic Particles that Hardly Ever Interact with Ordinary Matter??

 

Neutrino astronomy is BIG astronomy.  The telescopes are HUGE – cubic kilometers in volume – and require thousands of detectors.  Neutrino telescopes must be located in places where they never see photons from the night sky – all of them are buried kilometers below the surface of the Earth in deep mines or even embedded deep in the Antarctic ice.  Of course this means they are frightfully expensive to build and operate.  And all of this is done to detect dozens of neutrinos, ghostlike subatomic particles that are electrically neutral, with uncertain mass probably no more than a millionth the mass of the electron.  In this talk I’ll try to explain why neutrinos are so interesting and important to our understanding of nuclear reactions in stars, supernovae, and even dark matter and galaxy formation.  As a special bonus, neutrinos will be readily available throughout this entire talk, with no charge, either monetary or electrical!

 

Because we have so many Willamette Valley area monthly meetings this week, I feel like I should clarify the meeting schedule. All meetings start at 7:00 pm PDT.

Tuesday, July 13 - Heart of the Valley Astronomy (Corvallis)

Wednesday, July 14 - Nightsky45 Astronomy Club (Salem)

Thursday, July 15 - Eugene Astronomical Society (Eugene)

Please message me directly if you have any questions.

 - Amy

Eugene Astronomical Society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: July 2021 EAS Virtual Meeting
Time: Jul 15, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Hello, please add me to the new email group.

Jack Standeven

 - Thanks

On Jul 9, 2021, at 6:14 PM, Andy Nowlen <andynowlen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, I have been working on my version of the Cave Nebula in Cephus. Sh2-155 apparently goes by several designations like many other objects. I observe the extensive presence of the dark clouds and bok globules that make the shape what it is. The violent strength of the star formation areas central to the image really contrast and catch my eye. I really like the summary about SH2-155 on telescope.com for background information.

Enjoy,

Andy Nowlen

Asi533mc pro, AsiAir, et al.
ES 102mm at 714 focal length
L-extreme filter
March 12, July 7
About 3.75 hours data plus calibration frames
CEM40EC mount
March 12 from Oxbow Summit
July 7 from my North Eugene Driveway.

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