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amateur astronomy.
The general membership meetings are open to the public and attendance is encouraged.
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Fri May 11 2012 7:00 PM: We have been invited to do a public outreach event for the jamboree. They expect about 3000 attendee's. We need as many ASNH members as possible to assist. The event is at the High Plains Fairgrounds in Orange. We should plan on arriving at 7:30pm the day of the event.
This is a composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, from approximately 240 miles above Earth. Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit said of the about photographic techniques used to achieve the images: "My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, then ‘stack’ them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure." A total of 18 images photographed by the astronaut-monitored stationary camera were combined to create this composite. Image Credit: NASA
The Astrophysical Journal will issue a special edition of its Letters volume on April 20 with papers about observations made with NASA's SOFIA airborne telescope.
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