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September 2009 .Pub Volume 16, Issue 09 HAA’s June Meeting! September 2009 By Heather Neprozel June Meeting Was Well-Attended Photo by Don Pullen HAA Chairperson Steve Ger- From The Editor’s Desk mann welcomed attendees to the HAA monthly general It is almost like the astronomy meeting at the Spectator gods hate amateur astronomers. building and made a brief an- This summer has been a very bad one nouncement regarding the for finding a clear sky. Sure, there have Perseids Meteor Showers occurring on August 11. been clear nights, but the seeing or Steve then proceeded to in- transparency has usually been lousy. troduce John Gauvreau and For my part, whenever one of those rare his presentation of “The Sky nights with a cloudless sky joins up this Month”. In addition to with clear air, it almost never failed that demonstrating how to ob- I had a meeting or some other commit- serve fascinating objects in the summer sky, John ment that kept me from my telescope. showed terrific images of the Oh well, perhaps during another life... great star cluster M13 and Tim Philp, Editor (Continued on page 2) Inside this issue: Upcoming Events Chair Report 3 HAA AGM and Election Observing the Moon 4-5 of Officers 40 Years Ago 7 The Sky this Month 9-12 Friday, October 9th, 2009 Through the Looking Glass 13 7:30 PM @ The Specta- Astronomy—Shipboard Style! 15 tor Space Place 19 Event Horizon HAA’S June Meeting (continued) (Continued from page 1) also another summer favourite M57 the Ring Nebula, both taken by member Andrew Bruce with his 80mm refractor. John also showed member Kerry Lecky-Hepburn’s stunning image of NGC 4565, a galaxy that al- ways looks to me to be reminiscent of a “flying saucer”. Greats shots guys and gals! After the conclusion of John’s talk Steve introduced our main speaker of the evening, long-time HAA member and former HAA chairperson Glenn Muller. Glenn’s talk this evening was on the history of astrophotography. Glenn joked that he has spent about “3 Minutes” doing astrophotography and “This is not going to be a work- shop”. I always have enjoyed Glenn’s dry sense of humour. Glenn started by talking about the impact of images on the world. Did you know that Herschel coined the term “photography”? The very first astronomical image was a “Daguerreotype” picture of the moon. Around this time (1840) daguerreotypes were labour intensive, to say the least. John William Draper took this picture and his son Henry Draper worked on the Draper Catalogue of images, which was commissioned by the elder Draper’s widow. Glenn described the very famous, or perhaps infamous might be a better description, of “The Shot of the Century”…sketches made by Percival Lowell detailing canals on Mars. Just what exactly did Lowell see, or thought he saw? Images can have a lot of power, and can resonate through society. Glenn mentioned that many people think that that the most important images of the 20th century were taken by Edwin Hubble. His red-shifted galaxies showed that the universe was not static and unified edifice but it was indeed expanding. “Our perception of the universe changed overnight.” Other notable moments in astrophotography according to Glenn: images taken by the first satellites to orbit (Continued on page 8) Treasurer’s Report By Don Pullen Sept 2009 Treasurer’s Report (Unaudited) Cash opening Balance (1 Jun 2009) $ 4161.34 Expenses $ 1520.44 Revenue $ 179.45 Closing Balance (31 Aug 2009) $ 2820.35 Notes: Major revenue sources included: Memberships ($135), 50/50 ($44). Major expenses included: York University trip ($118.76), Postage and BASEF prize ($43.49), 1 yr Binbrook CSC sponsorship ($56.33), Hall rental 2009-2010 ($1050.00), Binbrook an- nual donation ($100.00), SkyNews Magazine Shipping ($42.86), EH printing ($109.00). PAGE 2 EVENT HORIZON From the Chair by Steve Germann This being the International be extra seating and it's sure This November, (the month of Year of Astronomy, we have to be an interesting talk. Be- clouds, traditionally) council is been encouraged to bring the fore that, we have public nights planning to organize another night sky to the people of in Burlington, and Brantford. Planetarium visit for mem- Canada, more than ever be- Even more important than the bers, at the McCallion Plane- fore. Our club members have IYA, and our outreach to the tarium. always shared a contagious public, is our club's internal ca- There is one more Star Party joy for astronomy. Our annual maraderie among the mem- coming up... the Black Forest public nights at community bers, and our ability to support Star Party, and several HAA parks are an opportunity for each other with ideas, informa- members have already signed members to share their enthu- tion, enthusiasm, the odd bor- up. It's still not too late to con- siasm in an informal setting, rowed eyepiece, and shared sider joining in. and let people know why we views through various tele- Most importantly, though, is observe. scopes and optical instru- our continuous opportunity to When i cross the border to go ments. In addition, we get a look up from wherever we to Cherry Springs with my chance to refresh our knowl- may be. Our observing direc- telescope in the car, I am of- edge of the sky. As I have re- tor, John, has posted some ten asked "what's in the sky peated many times, it's much interesting blog articles re- tonight", that could merit you better to try out a telescope cently about Jupiter, a planet bringing your telescope'. In before you buy one, and you that looks good in telescope some cases i can tell them will have a chance to deter- (or binoculars) from anyplace about a momentous stellar mine what kind of telescope is on earth, being so bright. (You occasion, such as an eclipse, right for you. do need to have a gap in the but more often than not I am To that end, we are planning a clouds though). There was a celebrating 'Dark of the telescope clinic, for the last Fri- sunspot last week, and with Moon'. For me, the sheer day in November, in time for spots comes the chance for beauty and complexity of the Christmas shopping, as well as Aurora. Your best bet to see night sky is what gets me a chance for you to bring in Aurora is to look up each moving. your scope for help getting it clear night around midnight Our IYA activities are winding collimated and adjusted. and see what's happening. down for the year, but not There's also a chance to learn You could be pleasantly sur- without a few more sparkles. some tips and tricks about prised. Our blog is a dynamic In November (on Friday, No- your model from others who place for interesting updates vember 13) we will be hon- are familiar with the same and we should make good oured to receive an interna- kinds. use of it. tionally acclaimed speaker, Our 'The Sky This Season, I also want to thank every Roberto Abraham at our Live' sessions at Binbrook member of this year's council monthly meeting, as our in- have been a treat, and John for their efforts on behalf of stallment of the 'Galileo Lec- has done his usual excellent the club. The work they do be- ture Series', sponsored by the job of bringing the constella- hind the scenes makes our IYA team in Canada. Please tions and other wonders of the club enjoyable for everyone. invite your friends as there will sky home to us. VOLUME 16, ISSUE 09 PAGE 3 InternationalObserving Year the of Astronomy—2009Moon By Internationalby Tim Philp Astronomical Union—Press Release Often when we for supremacy. think about astron- It is at the termina- omy, we think tor where you get about deep sky the best views of objects, we think the moon as an- about galaxies and other large body nebulae – all dim similar to the objects that require Earth. You can see good telescopic mountains, craters, equipment with rills, and large flat which to observe lava flows that fes- them. We often toon the surface neglect an object and lay bare the that is right in front ancient history of of our faces night that pock-marked after night – the globe. moon. The best thing Our moon is our about lunar ob- closest neighbour serving is that you in space and it has don't need a lot of dramatically influ- expensive equip- enced our planet. ment to see quite a Everything from bit of the moon's regulating the life surface. A simple cycles of marine pair of binoculars life to slowing the will give you mag- rotation of our nificent views of planet to give us the lunar land- the length of our When the moon fills the sky with light, you might as well look at the scape. The moon moon because you are not going to get good deep-sky object visibility. day. It causes the is also about the tides and has been Gibbous moon taken on 09/08/02 by Tim Philp. 6” refractor Cannon only thing that you a source of illumi- 50D @ 1/60 sec. can use a cheap nation for our department-store planet for more than a billion Of course, the full moon is not telescope to see. It is a large years. the best time to observe the enough target that you don't Most astronomers who view moon because the lighting is very need expensive equipment to deep sky objects hate the harsh and fine details are ob- observe.
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