Club Meetings
The Club meets in the Pewaukee Library conference room on the second Wednesday of every month at 7 pm.
Next Meeting: Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Public Events
The Second Saturday of every month the Club has a "Rain or Shine" presentation on an astronomy topic. The presentations are given in the Community Room at the Library unless otherwise noted.
Next Event: Scott Berg will give a presentation entitled “How Far to That Star?” on Saturday, February 11 at 7:00 pm, at the Pewaukee Public Library, 210 Main Street, Pewaukee. Included will be explanations of astronomical terms like ‘light year’ and ‘astronomical unit’, and how astronomers determine the distance from the Earth to the planets and stars. The event is free and intended for a general audience.
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Fun with Astrometrics! and a Near Earth Object
As some of you may know, I have recently been experimenting with the capability of our observatory equipment to accurately measure the position of objects in the telescope camera images. Things outside of our solar system don’t change position much, … Continue reading
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Long Time Exposures for Deep Space
The CCD cameras at the observatory are very light sensitive but have a smaller number of “megapixels” as compared to the digital camera that you may be using at home. The CCD chip in many digital cameras today might also … Continue reading
