On Aug 21, 2021, at 1:55 PM, Amy Baker <chawks64@...> wrote:

Here is the video from Thursday night's meeting. Jerry Oltion puts together the travel telescope he made, all live, and then teaches how to collimate properly.

YouTube link - August EAS meeting

If you missed this one, then please check out the video. It was a really fun meeting.

- Amy

On Aug 17, 2021, at 9:39 PM, Amy Baker <chawks64@...> wrote:

Nope, I corrected it to August 19th.

Thats what happens when you work full time, host five hours of Zoom meetings in one day for people on the other side of the state, and still need to post the link to the EAS Zoom meeting. Typos.

- Amy




On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:16 PM, Wayne Spletstoser wrote:

June?

June?

On Aug 17, 2021, at 7:27 PM, Amy Baker <chawks64@...> wrote:

It's Eugene Astronomical Society meeting time!

Well, at least Thursday night it will be.

This month we have Sky & Telescope contributing editor Jerry Oltion giving a presentation on the travel telescope that he just finished building. He will also show the correct way to collimate a telescope.

In his own words:

The travel scope is a marvel of engineering. I stole the design from Roel Weijenberg, a Dutch telescope maker, and made some modifications of my own. It's a 9.5" f/4.1 scope, yet it fits into a box only 12.5" on a side and 6" high. It weighs 20 pounds fully packed, including four eyepieces. I'll talk about the design, setup, and use of the scope, and the many compromises that go with trying to make a big scope fit into a little package.

Every time you assemble a telescope in the field, you have to collimate it. Collimation is pretty simple, but it's kind of scary until you get the hang of it. I'll use the travel scope to show you how it works and how to do it easily.

The meeting starts at 7:00 this Thursday night, and it won't just be PowerPoint slides. You'll get to see Jerry working in real time.

I'll see you there, and don't be late!

- Amy


Topic: August 2021 EAS Virtual Meeting
Time: Aug 19, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Date and Time for us on the periphery?

Peter K

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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