[APML] ATTENTION: ASTROImage 2002 attendees coming to UW-Whitewater

["Paul M. Rybski" <rybskip@idcnet.com>]

Dear Potential ASTROImage 2002 attendees,

      Seats are still available for viewing the videostreamed 
ASTROImage 2002 conference at Whitewater Observatory on the campus of 
the University of WI-Whitewater.

      If you wish to reserve one or more seats, please contact 
Observatory Director Paul Rybski by telephone at

(262) 495-4756 (answering machine 24/7)

or by Email at

rybskip@idcnet.com

before 3 pm CDT Friday, August 23rd.

      The program of viewing this coming weekend will be as follows 
(all times Central Daylight).

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Friday, August 23rd
-------------------

1.  Observatory open to attendees at 8:30 pm

2.  Videostream viewing begins at 9:00 pm

   The conference begins with an introduction to Astro-imaging, given by
        Greg Pyros and Robert Reeves.

      A.  Introduction - image samples, OCA club overview and available
          resources, about the Astro-Imagers special interest group 
within Orange
          County

      B.  Astronomers, challenges, rewards and realistic expectations

      C.  Types of imaging - Through a camera lens, Wide-field, Lunar 
/ Planetary
          imaging, Deep Sky imaging.

      D.  Common concepts and misconceptions - telescope designs, mounts, need
          for polar alignment, observing site considerations, 
exposure, color vs.
          black & white, guiding and post processing -- Members of the
          Astro-Imagers group

      E.  Film imaging overview - why shoot with film?, imaging 
opportunties with
          a film camera, overview of an imaging session, hardware requirements

      F.  CCD imaging overview - why shoot with a CCD?, imaging 
opportunties with
          a CCD, overview of an imaging session, hardware requirements.

3.     Observatory closes at 12 midnight

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Saturday, August 24th
---------------------

1.  Observatory opens to attendees at 9:30 am

2.  Videostream viewing begins at 10 am

   10:00AM ~ 10:15AM     Opening Remarks

   10:15AM ~ 11:05AM     Jack Newton:  Advanced CCD Imaging and CCD 
Solar Imaging

   11:15AM ~ 12 noon     Robert Reeves:  Film Hypering techniques

   12 noon ~ 12:15PM     Break

   12:15PM ~ 1:05PM      Don Goldman:  Can We Get Accurate Color in
                         AstroImaging?

   1:10PM ~ 2:00PM       Ron Wodaski:  Advanced image post processing

   2:00PM ~ 3:00PM       Lunch Break (mass dash for fast food!)

   3:00PM ~ 3:50PM       Jack Newton:  Keynote address

   3:55PM ~ 4:45PM       Steve Mandel:  WideField CCD Imaging

   4:45PM ~ 5:00PM       Break

   5:00PM ~ 5:50PM       Don Westergren:  Systematic Film Testing for
                         Astrophotography

   5:55PM ~ 6:45PM       Ron Dantowitz:  High resolution video imaging

   6:50PM ~ 7:40PM       Bill & Sally Fletcher:  Schmidt Camera Astrophotography

   7:40PM                Closing remarks:  changes in Sunday's schedule

3.  Observatory closes at 8 pm.

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Sunday, August 25th
-------------------

1.  Observatory opens to attendees at 12:30 pm

2.  Videostream viewing begins at 12:45 pm.  Sunday's program is 
considerably more fluid than Saturday's.  Changes to this program may 
be made and announced on Saturday night.  So what follows is a 
tentative schedule.

   12:45AM ~ 1:00PM      Advanced Telescope Systems:  Telescope platform
                         stability for AstroImaging

   1:00PM ~ 2:00PM       Cyanogen (tutorial) Doug George:  Advanced image
                          processing using Maxim DL 3.0

   2:00PM ~ 3:00PM       Lunch Break

   3:00PM ~ 3:45PM       Imelda Josen of Sky and Telescope:  Astrophotography,
                         "Then and Now"

   4:00PM ~ 5:00PM       Main Sequence Software:  Desktop Universe

   5:00PM ~ 6:00PM       Ron Wodaski (tutorial): Advanced post-process imaging
                         techniques

3.  Observatory closes at 6:30 pm

      Free parking for these viewing sessions will be found in 
university lots east of Prince Street in Whitewater.  These include 
the lot between the Center of the Arts and Carlson and the Center of 
the Arts lot bordered by US Highway 12 on the South and Prince on the 
West.  Park in unmarked stalls only.

      I hope to see you in attendance.  If you have questions, please 
call or write!



Paul Rybski
Director, Whitewater Observatory, and
Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics
University of WI-Whitewater
Whitewater, WI  53190

Observatory telephone number:  (262) 472-5731


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