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The next AU
Public Event or Activity.
See Our Events Calendar
No Meetings for the Summer months.
Monthly AU meeting in Farrand Hall
September 6th 2013 7pm
Our very own club member Paul Winn will be putting on a
Presentation on Astrophotography. He will be including information on
telescopes, mounts, guiders, CCD cameras, and basic processing of the
captured data, followed by a video of all his best images
At 7:00pm sharp, there is a free planetarium show of the night's sky.
Club business is reviewed at 7:30pm, and the speaker may begin by
7:45pm.
Since you have an interest in astronomy and the related fields, please
join us at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 80 seat Farrand
Hall (enter via metal gate and head down to the planetarium, and see
www.sbnature.org).
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