About Us
We are a friendly, relaxed group of people sharing a common interest in all things astronomical. Our membership ranges from complete beginners to those experienced in observing and the more technical aspects such as astrophotography.
We meet at Summercourt New Memorial Hall, Cornwall on the third Thursdays of the month throughout the year. From October to March we also hold practical meetings on the first Thursday of each month at Trevarrian Holiday Park. All meetings start at 7:30pm.
Further information on the club, how to find us, what we do and Contact Us details can be found under the ‘Home’ menu dropdown at the very top of this page.
Next Event
May 16th: Summercourt
EAA, or Electronically Assisted Astronomy is an ever increasing popular way to do Astronomy. While it uses as camera to make observations, it’s not astrophotography and because you are not looking through an eyepiece, you don’t need to be at the telescope to do it. Nick will give an overall view on what EAA is and how you can simply and relatively cheaply use your existing go-to telescope- no matter what kind it is and maybe change the way you observe the night sky.
After the tea break Glynn will be giving us his 10 minute talk ‘Meet the Herschels’
Sun & Stars: 20, April – Carnewas
Some images from our first successful Sun & Stars event held this year.
Previous Posts
Image Processing Technique
There are many examples where we image an object that is predominantly a full continuum
spectrum object, a galaxy or a reflection nebula for example, but it also contains emission
line nebulae components. Capturing both a full spectrum RGB image and narrowband
emission image which are then combined may reveal more information about the object
and create a more interesting and complete image.
Twinkle, Twinkle GINORMOUS Star
Looking up at a Chinese night sky Confucius poetically said: “Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines.” Scientifically, we now know that the stars are actually giant balls of hydrogen converting to helium in a nuclear fusion process and kicking out huge amounts of heat, light, plasma, particles and radiation in the process. But is our Sun a “normal” size and “type” of star and how does it compare with all the other 200 billion trillion (2 with 23 noughts!!!) stars out there?…….