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Prime Focus Year Continues Through November 7Th Highlights of the November Sky. - - - 1st - - - DAWN: Mercury’s best morning apparition of the Prime Focus year continues through November 7th. Look 5º A Publication of the Kalamazoo Astronomical Society above the eastern horizon an hour before sunrise. November 20142013 - - - 2nd - - - Daylight Saving Time ends at 2:00 am. PM: Algol is at minimum brightness for roughly two ThisThis MonthsMonths KAS EventsEvents hours centered on 7:07 pm EST. General Meeting: Friday, November 7 @ 7:00 pm - - - 5thth - - - PM: Algol is at minimum Kalamazoo Area Math & Science Center - See Page 10 for Details brightness for roughly two hours centered on 6:56 pm EST. Board Meeting: Sunday, November 9 @ 5:00 pm - - - 6thth - - - Sunnyside Church - 2800 Gull Road - All Members Welcome Full Moon 5:23 pm EST Field Trip: Saturday, November 22 @ 5:00 pm - - - 14thth - - - Abrams Planetarium - See Page 5 for Details DAWN: Jupiter is ~13º to the upper left of the Moon. Laster Quarter Moon 10:16 am EST - - - 18thth - - - Inside the Newsletter. AM: Leonid meteor shower Inside the Newsletter. peaks, expect about 20 meteors per hour. October Meeting Minutes.....................p. 2 - - - 22nd - - - Board Meeting Minutes......................... p. 2 New Moon 7:32 am EST Astrophotography Night Highlights... p. 3 PM: Algol is at minimum brightness for roughly two Observations........................................... p. 5 hours centered on 11:50 pm EST. Field Trip to Abrams Planetarium...... p. 5 - - - 25thth - - - Lunar Eclipse Pictures............................p. 6 DUSK: Mars is ~7º to the left of a Waxing Crescent NASA Space Place in a Snap................ p. 7 Moon. PM: Algol is at minimum November Night Sky............................. p. 8 brightness for roughly two hours centered on 8:39 pm KAS Board & Announcements............ p. 9 EST. General Meeting Preview......................p. 10 - - - 29thth - - - First Quarter Moon 5:06 am EST www.kasonline.org OCTOBER BOARD Meeting Minutes Meeting Minutes The general meeting of the Kalamazoo Astronomical Society The KAS officers and at-large board members assembled for was brought to order by President Richard Bell on Friday, a meeting on Sunday, October 19, 2014 at Sunnyside October 3, 2014 at 7:15 pm EDT. Approximately 28 Church. President Richard Bell brought the meeting to order members and guests were in attendance at the Kalamazoo at 5:10 pm. Other board members in attendance were Joe Area Math & Science Center (KAMSC). Comiskey, Scott Macfarlane, Rich Mather, Jack Price, and Don Stilwell. KAS tradition says that the October meeting shall be devoted to the art of astrophotography. Amazingly, nine people Rich Mather started the meeting off with the treasurer’s brought astrophotos to share this year. Richard Bell started report. Total liabilities and equity totaled over $90,000, with things off by showing some images of the Moon he took over $77,000 in the Robotic Telescope Project account with a Celestron 9.25” EdgeHD SCT and Imaging Source (recall that about $14,000 has already been spent on the 21AU618.AS camera. He then shared several images of the Paramount ME II). The only significant spending as of late Northern Lights he took while on vacation at Dinosaur was $87.72 toward educational expenses and $102.45 on Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada. food for the Perseid Potluck Picnic. Richard mentioned that we recently picked up our 150th membership. Arya Jayatilaka showed some constellation images he took with a fish-eye lens from his backyard. He also captured the The Board reviewed upcoming events. Preparations were International Space Station passing overhead. Jim Kurtz made for the Partial Solar Eclipse Watch at Warren Dunes showed the CCD images he took from his backyard and at State Park on October 23rd. Dr. Adrienne Erickcek, a former North Fulton Cemetery. Mike Cook was able to participate student of Mike Sinclair, agreed to give a presentation via in Astrophotography Night for the first time this year. He Skype at the meeting on November 7th. Mike would ensure shared a variety of images including solar system shots with there would be no technical difficulties, although the two a simple webcam and deep sky images taken with his 8” f/4 previous Skype talks went perfectly. Richard suggested Newtonian. Kevin Jung is a member of both the Grand taking a field trip to Abrams Planetarium on November 22nd. Rapids Amateur Astronomical Association (GRAAA) and The KAS will purchase tickets for its members only as it has KAS. He also shared his images at Astrophotography Night in the past. (See page 5 for the itinerary.) for the first time. Kevin has been taking sky pictures at GRAAA’s Veen Observatory for many years. Kevin also There were no significant developments in the Robotic enjoys taking scenic astronomical images across the West Telescope Project since the last board meeting (see page 5 Michigan area. Roger Williams once again shared many for an update). We then discussed the disabled Owl impressive CCD images taken with his HyperStar-equipped Observatory Telescope. Members that attended the Great Celestron 14” EdgeHD SCT and Paramount MX equatorial Lakes Star Gaze in September met Jay McGill. Mr. McGill mount. specializes in the repair and refurbishment of classic LX200’s. Richard volunteered to contact him and get a Our traditional October meeting snacks of apple cider and quote to repair and refurbish our LX200. donuts were once again provided by Jean DeMott. Thank you, Jean! Long time KAS member and astrophotographer Several community outreach opportunities have become Dave Garten shared his astrophotos after the break. Dave available. One of these include setting up displays at the takes most of his images from his backyard observatory in Gull Lake Science & Engineering Festival at Gull Lake High Portage. Next up was former KAS member Pete Mumbower. School from 9am - 4pm on November 8th. Another is the Pete now lives in Grand Rapids and has built an observatory annual WMU Education Day at the Seelye Center from 12 - in his backyard. He recently invested a lot of time and effort 1:30 pm on November 15th. We have also been invited to into automating his observatory. Pete says he can now sleep return to the Rock & Mineral Show in May 2015. while collecting photons from deep sky objects during most clear nights. Last up was KAS Vice President Jack Price. The Board then spent some time reviewing the proposed Jack took some afocal images of the Sun through the KAS 2015 general meeting and public observing session Coronado PST. He also shared some regular photos taken at schedules. There were no objections toward any of the dates, the Great Lakes Star Gaze (which was mostly clouded out). but ultimate approval is from KAMSC and KNC. We’ll Highlights from Astrophotography Night appear on the next begin looking for guest speakers once the schedule is two pages, but please also click on the person’s name above finalized. Other activities, such as a Full Moon Theater on to see more of their amazing images of the universe. The January 31st and Lunar Eclipse Watch on September 27th, meeting concluded at 9:45 pm. were also discussed. The meeting concluded at 6:45 pm. Prime Focus Page 2 November 2014 Astrophotography Night Highlights The Lagoon Nebula (M8) Jim Kurtz This emission nebula is located 4,100 light‐years away in the constellaon Sagiarius. It has an angular size of 90’ x 40’ which translates to actual dimension of 110 x 50 light‐years. Details: Tele Vue NP101 Nagler‐Petzval apochromac refractor with an SBIG ST‐2000XCM CCD camera on an Astro‐Physics Mach1GTO German equatorial mount. It is a 57 minute total exposure from North Fulton Cemetery. The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) Mike Cook At 2.5 million light‐years, the Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest big galaxy to the Milky Way. Also shown in this image are M31’s two satellite ellipcal galaxies. M110 is at the top with M32 visible to the lower right of Andromeda’s nuclear bulge. Details: 8‐inch f/4 Star Hoc Newtonian reflector with a Canon 350D DSLR camera on a Celestron CG‐5 German equatorial mount. Total exposure me is 14 minutes and 40 seconds. Alberta Aurora Panorama Richard Bell Three images were combined to create this panoramic view of Northern Lights acvity captured on August 28, 2014 from Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada. Details: Canon 550D with a Tokina 11‐16mm lens set at 11mm (f/3.5). Each image was a 20 second exposure at ISO 1600. Astrophotography Night Highlights Supermoon Kevin Jung Some people have taken to calling this Full Moon a "Supermoon" due to its closeness to Earth at this me. While it has been the closest in the past 18 years, there's nothing really "super" about it. In fact, it's only about 0.7% closer than the previous Full Moon in February. Details: Takahashi 4‐inch apochromac refractor with a Canon 40D DSLR camera. It is a 1/10‐second exposure at ISO 400 from Veen Observatory in Lowell, Michigan. California Nebula (NGC 1499) Roger Williams This emission nebula is located 1,000 light‐years away and spans 2.5° of sky in the constellaon Perseus. Xi Persei, an O7 type star shown at the lower right, is responsible for illuminang the hydrogen beta line in this object that bares a striking resemblance to the most western of the 48 conguous states. Details: Celestron 14‐inch EdgeHD Schmidt‐Cassegrain telescope equipped with Starizona’s HyperStar system and SBIG ST‐8300C CCD camera, all mounted on a Soware Bisque Paramount MX roboc mount. It is a stack of 16 1‐minute exposures. Great Globular Cluster (M13) Dave Garten This massive cluster contains approximately 1 million stars in all.
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