Reminder: ASGH January 2025 Monthly Meeting with Zoom Link!
When:
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
7:30pm to 9:30pm
(UTC-05:00) America/New York
Where:
Online and in person at the Rocky Hill Community Center, Room 1C, 761Old Main St., Rocky Hill, CT 06067
Organizer:
John A. Sillasen
jasillasen@...
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Description:
This month's meeting of the Astronomical Society of Greater Hartford will take place both online over Zoom and in the Rocky Hill Community Center - usually in the same room, 1C.? Our speaker is Erik Schmitt, an educator, outreach specialist and a former observatory director.? He is the treasurer of the Southern Vermont Astronomy group or SoVerA.
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His talk and what it will cover is:
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How Amateur Astronomers and Citizen Scientists can contribute to Exoplanet Research
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Overview
This talk will cover how amateur astronomers and citizen scientists with small telescopes or even no telescope at all can meaningfully contribute to exoplanet research. The NASA Exoplanet Watch collaboration is now open to the general public and there is a need for more optics and eyeballs gathering and reducing data from transiting exoplanets.
You will learn how to identify upcoming exoplanet transits, some tips for acquiring images, how to prepare them for processing via Exoplanet Watch's EXOTIC software tool, and then how to upload the results to the AAVSO's database. We'll also review how these measurements contributed to the characterization of particular exoplanets!
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Zoom Link:
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If you trouble with the link, open a web browser tab and enter:
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at the top right side of the page click on Join
Enter the Meeting ID
849 3230 2393 Click Join
Enter the Passcode
250083 Click Join Meeting
All participants are muted upon entry by default.? When you need to speak or ask a question when given the opportunity, click on the microphone in the lower left of your screen to enable the microphone so everyone may hear you.? Click it back off when you are finished so background noises (eating, TV, road traffic, people in the household having conversations with someone or gaming etc.? You know the drill!? Give the speaker the attention they deserve.?
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Please use the Zoom chat to ask questions to all or be selective and only 'chat' with a specific member.
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Thank you!
John Sillasen,?
ASGH Secretary
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