LVAAS General Meeting

Sunday January 12, 3 p.m. at Trumbower 130, Muhlenberg College, Allentown PA

 

Speaker is via Zoom
 

"SkyTools and Electronic Assisted Astronomy"

Featuring Greg Crinklaw

The popularity of Electronically Assisted Astronomy (EAA) is growing rapidly, offering observers a way to combine the joys of live visual observing with the capabilities of modern cameras. Greg Crinklaw, developer of SkyTools, will introduce the audience to what makes SkyTools uniquely powerful for planning observations. He will also share how SkyTools is incorporating support for EAA, bringing the same innovative features to this field that it already provides for visual observing and long-exposure imaging.

Greg Crinklaw is an astronomer from Cloudcroft New Mexico, who is best known as the developer of the SkyTools observing software. Greg holds BS, and MS degrees in astronomy and an MS in physics. He once worked for NASA as a software engineer in support of the Mars Orbiter Camera, which took thousands of pictures from Mars orbit for a decade. Greg considers himself to be a professionally trained life-long amateur astronomer, who has managed to do just about every kind of astronomy at one time or another. 

 

Prospective new members who wish to attend the meeting should email membership@lvaas.org.

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Founded in 1957, the Lehigh Valley Amateur Astronomical Society (LVAAS) is one of the oldest continuously-operating amateur astronomy organizations in the U.S. The mission of LVAAS is to promote the study of Astronomy and to maintain a meeting space, observatories, and a planetarium.

LVAAS operates two astronomy sites: The South Mountain site in Salisbury Township is the headquarters of the Society. It has a planetarium with a Spitz A3P projector, a 21 foot dome, meeting space, the Red Shift store, library, workshop space, and three observatories. The Pulpit Rock site near Hamburg is LVAAS's members-only dark sky site. At 1600 feet above sea level, the site features five observatories and a pad for member's scopes.

Members who receive training on the scopes may obtain keys to the observatories. LVAAS also maintains a rental "fleet" of telescopes that members may rent at low cost. Members also receive access to The Observer, our online newsletter, as well as reduced subscription prices to Sky and Telescope and Astronomy Magazine. If you want to learn more about astronomy and LVAAS, please join us at our next public star party.

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