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    2013-11-11<br>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Hail Astromancers,</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Yerkes</strong>: First 8 non members should email Champ to get in on that trip. It's Saturday to Sunday. Nov. 23ish land.<o:p></o:p></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">Dome</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Centaur,serif;">: Newly Ordered Dome will be installed before Spring Quarter.
Champ’s been waiting for a year so two more quarters isn’t too long.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Coming soon</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Centaur,serif;">: Next week John is talking, then Aiden, and maybe we’ll
watch a movie 10th week. It’ll be fun, Champ promises.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Build your own telescope project:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Centaur,serif;"> trying to get the woodshop to let us in</span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal">Recap: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Centaur,serif;">Champ didn’t perform with Chance the Rapper. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Centaur,serif;"><b>Astrophotography</b>! How
it works by Adam Sutheland (it’s unclear if there’s an r)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Centaur,serif;">-Turns out Adam’s
retina laptop has better resolution than the projector</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Centaur,serif;">-We reviewed
Patrick’s (who should come to meetings) CCD talk vs APS</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Centaur,serif;">-CCDs are higher
quality, CMOS is in your phone camera (more easily produced)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Centaur,serif;">-You’ll need a:
tripod, intervalometer (make shutter speed as much as you want)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Centaur,serif;">-Pick your aperture:
big as possible hole so smallest number f/stop</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Centaur,serif;">-Where you should go:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Centaur,serif;">            -middle of nowhere (which means not
Chicago)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Centaur,serif;">-How to take a
picture: mix the focuses (Adam continues to blame the projector for the lack of
quality)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Centaur,serif;">-Star Trails: stars
don’t get brighter with a really long shutter speed-because the world rotate.
You can buy a clock that moves it (OUR TELESCOPE UPSTAIRS DOES THAT)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Centaur,serif;">-Light pollution: the
enemy of the astrophotographer</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Centaur,serif;">-Focus: don’t trust
anyone who tells you to use infinity focus</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Centaur,serif;">-Adam again blames
the projector for our inability to see the trees in his long shot.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Centaur,serif;">-Light pollution:
still in the middle of nowhere, still light pollution</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font style="color:#000000" face="Centaur, serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">-In Adam’s backyard,
there </span><span style="font-size:15.199999809265137px">aren&#39;t</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"> too many stars</span></font><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif">-Adam really doesn’t
like light pollution. “Criminals need light too” –some article he “listened” to</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif">-I think we need a
new projector. Adam should rename his talk “reasons the projector is bad”</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif">-He also insulted the
Dakotas as having “no one.” He appears to be from Utah. Hmm…</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif">-“Hot Pixels”
purple/white dots, get a fake picture of “stars.” Perhaps this will be my “astrophotography”
career. Hot Pixels, while hot, do not have star trails.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif">-Quick Tips: use manual
focus: just lightly less than infinity, add a ballast to your tripod if it’s
windy or you want to feel cool, bring extra batteries or learn to hack your
batteries.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif">In summary:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif">Astrophotography is
super cool. You should email your interest in doing it here because we need
people with time to make it happen in our own dome.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif">Times Adam insulted
the projector: 5</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif">Best,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif">Paige</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif"><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif">PS I&#39;ll be sending out an email that I was supposed to send out a few months ago that might be of interest to some of you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Centaur,serif">PPS If anyone knows how to make my laptop not have weird text sizes on the Windows partition, let me know.</span></p>
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