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THE 2007 RASNZAPS ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY CAMP
Program of Events (roughly)
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Day / Time
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Topic
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Speaker
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Notes
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Friday
5th October
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5:30pm
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BBQ
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The sizzling sausages
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BBQ covered with registration
fee
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6:16pm
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Sunset
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The
sinking Sun
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Astro twilight ends
at 7:47pm
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6:30pm
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Get ready for astroimaging...
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.
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Movie/socialising/informal
talks if cloudy
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Saturday
6th October
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11:00am
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Show
images taken last night
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Anyone
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-
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11:30am
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Acquiring
the images - Guiding
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John
Burt
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Guiding essentials
- manual and auto
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12:00 noon
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Acquiring
the images - Focus
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John
Drummond
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Focusing
essentials
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12:30am
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Taking the Images
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?
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Hints
re taking the images
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1:00pm
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Lunch
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Make
your own...
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-
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1:30pm
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Calibrating the Images
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?
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Subtracting
bias, flats, darks
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2:00pm
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Stacking
images
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?
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How
to satck. Various software
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2:30pm
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Photoshop
Basics
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Adam
Brock DVD
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From,
'Making Every Pixel Count'
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3:00pm
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Stretching Levels and
Curves
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Adam
Brock DVD
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From,
'Making Every Pixel Count'
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3:30pm
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Afternoon
tea
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The whistling
kettle
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-
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4:00pm
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?
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?
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?
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4:30pm
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?
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?
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?
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5:00pm
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Planetary
/ Lunar / Solar imaging
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?
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Webcam
imaging / stacking/ processing
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5:30pm
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BBQ
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The sizzling sausages
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BBQ covered with registration
fee
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6:30pm
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Get ready for astroimaging...
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-
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Movie/socialising/informal
talks if cloudy
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Sunday
7th October
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10:00am
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Show
images taken last night
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Anyone
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-
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10:30am
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Putting it All
Together
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?
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From go to woah - get
that image
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11:30am
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Questions / Discussion
time
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Any/everyone
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Open discussion
of anything
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12:30pm
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Lunch
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Make
your own...
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-
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2:00pm
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Visit Cook Observatory
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-
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Visit the World's
most eastern observatory
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