posted by Vern
on August 11, 2011 - 5:07pm
Date:
Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 7:00pm
The August meeting of the Longmont Astronomical Society will be on Thursday, August 18th at the IHop Restaurant, 2040 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, CO. A group of us will meet for dinner around 6 pm at the restaurant, you are welcome to join us! The general meeting will begin at 7 pm.
The presentation this month will be about planetary imaging. The planet Jupiter will be at opposition near the end of October and will be more convenient to image in the late evening in the coming weeks. I’ll talk about techniques to obtain images of Jupiter and other planets, collimation, and software to process the images, namely the latest version of image processing software application, Registax 6.1.