Seeing the invisible!
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Each month members of the Norman Lockyer Observatory are actively imaging our galaxy, the solar system and deep space. We meet regularly at the observatory every Friday evening, where we have talks presentations and of course imaging (weather permitting). If you are interested in imaging or want to learn more please feel free to come along and we will endeavour to help you any way we can. Please see the link to our forum bottom of this paragraph; here you will see the images we have been taking. Norman Lockyer was himself an astrophotographer producing thousands of glass plate images, both of spectra and deep space objects. We all started from using a basic web cam & progressing forward! Please visit our dedicated forum: www.astroimagingsouthwest.co.uk
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| SOLAR SYSTEM |
Every beginner will start with a mobile phone camera, web cam or simple digital camera placed over the eyepiece of a telescope to take an image of the moon or planets. Then gradually move onto more sophisticated imaging devices. We regularly image Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, Sun, Moon & Mars. These are the objects available to almost everyone with some form of digital camera and telescope. |
| OUR GALAXY |
We image many objects within our own galaxy, THE MILKYWAY. It is 100,000 light years across giving us plenty to explore. |
| DEEP SPACE |
Billions of galaxies roaming the deep space of the universe: many of them we can image quite easily with a modest set up. The thrill of imaging a galaxy or nebula so far away and so far back in time is overwhelming. Every point of light we see in the sky ay night is coming from the past taking millions or billions of years to reach us. |
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NLO IMAGERS |
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David Strange (chairman)
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Rev Kate Kay |
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Steve Boyce
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Martin Taylor
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Dave Jones
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Martin Page
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Allan blackparticle
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Allan Jones
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Alan Brittan
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Bernard
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Ron Taylor
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Pete Youd
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Will Youd
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Rob Banks
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John Maclean
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