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Please Register for Dinner Plans
Saturday, June 14th
Pizza Dinner - ABC Pizza, please sign up and bring $10 to chip in.
**Bring your own beverages**
5:30pm: Arrival and Introduction to Chiefland Astronomy Village
6:00pm: Virtual Presentation: Tom Field - Field Tested Systems
7:00pm: Dinner: ABC Pizza - Tour Chiefland Astronomy Heritage Museum
Sunset: Observe and meet with fellow Astronomers
We will have equipment on hand to do our own spectroscopy live.
“You can almost touch the stars
An Introduction to Astronomical Spectroscopy”
Even if you wanted to touch a star, they’re all impossibly distant. In spite of these great distances, astronomers have learned an enormous amount about stars. How? The most common method to study the stars is called spectroscopy, which is the science of analyzing the colorful rainbow spectrum produced by a prism-like device.
Until recently, spectroscopy was too expensive and too complicated for all but a handful of amateurs. Today, though, new tools make spectroscopy accessible to almost all of us. You no longer need a PhD, dark skies, long exposures, enormous aperture ... or a big budget! With your current telescope and FITS camera (or a simple web cam or even a DSLR without a telescope) you can now easily study the stars yourself. Wouldn’t you like to detect the atmosphere on Neptune or the red shift of a quasar right from your own backyard?!
This talk, with lots of interesting examples, will show you what it’s all about and help you understand how spectroscopy is used in research. Even if you are an armchair astronomer, understanding this field will enhance your understanding of the things your read and the night sky. We’ll do a live Q&A after Tom’s 45-minute presentation.
Speaker Bio: Tom Field was a Contributing Editor at Sky & Telescope Magazine for ten years. He is the founder of Field Tested Systems and the author of the RSpec software (www.rspec-astro.com) which received the S&T “Hot Product” award. A pioneer in the field of amateur astronomical spectroscopy, Tom aims to demystify field and make it accessible to all. He promises to open the door for you to this fascinating field!
Chiefland Astronomy Village
Exclusively for AAC members!
AAC has organized a dark sky star party at one of the darkest skies on the east coast!
Sunset is 8:31 pm.
Please review the Star Party etiquette for Chiefland. http://shorturl.at/cgkMO
You need to register to attend and receive directions to observing field.
Event Alerts - Members please register to attend. A "GO" or "NO GO" will be emailed to registrants by noon the day of the event. Your need to be registered for me to send you updates
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