DVD Proceedings
The workshop proceedings are now available. The proceedings comes on 5 DVD's and contains nearly 10 hours of video. The Proceedings costs $75 for the set. Anyone who registered and paid for the workshop is eligible to receive the proceedings at a discounted price of $35, you will need your registration code to get the DVD set at this price. If you have misplaced your registration code, please email the workshop organizers. They can retrieve it for you. The Proceedings video may be ordered by clicking the link to Boojum Scientific.
SAMPLE VIDEO
Sample video clips from the workshop are now being made available. They hint at the content that will be found on the DVD proceedings. The talks were very interesting and had provided many useful tips in Astrophotography, Observation Planning, Equipment Choice, etc.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
All talks (excepting the keynote) were 40 minutes in length with a 10 minute question and answer period. We had a tent at the Astrofest Site beginning Thursday Evening through Saturday night. The Astrofest tent was open to all.
SPEAKER |
SUBJECT |
VIDEO |
Ralph Megna |
Planetary Imaging | Clip |
Professor Richard Kron |
Keynote Address - Sloan Digital Sky Survey | Clip |
Marcos Huerta |
Image Processing with MacIRAF | Clip |
Jeff Terry |
Image Acquistion and Processing with iCCD | Clip |
Paul Rodman |
Planning an Observing Session with Astroplanner | Clip |
Duane Deal |
Image Processing with Photoshop | Clip |
Steve Hutson |
Intuitive Telescope Control with ScopeDriver | Clip |
Bob Piatek |
Autoguiding Made Simple | Clip |
Alan Friedman |
High Resolution Imaging | Clip |
Dave Whipps |
Maximize Your Observing with Starry Night Pro Plus | Clip |
Jeff Terry |
Sponsors | Clip |
Jeff Terry |
Astrofest Talk | Clip |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Professor Richard Kron, the current director of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, has agreed to deliver the Keynote Address at the Macintosh Astronomy Workshop. Professor Kron will describe the survey and recent results. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is the most ambitious astronomical survey project ever undertaken. The survey will map in detail one-quarter of the entire sky, determining the positions and absolute brightnesses of more than 100 million celestial objects. It will also measure the distances to more than a million galaxies and quasars. The Apache Point Observatory, site of the SDSS telescopes, is operated by the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC).
Return To the Macintosh Astronomy Workshop Homepage
The address of this site is: http://mrmac.mr.aps.anl.gov/~macastroworkshop/proceedings.html