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17-18 February 2014
The Royal Astronomical Society
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London
This was a joint 2 day meeting between The RPS and The Royal Astronomical Society. The first day was organised by The RPS and majored on photography and digital imaging in astronomy. The second day was organised by Dr Helen Walker FRAS and included large format Space Imaging, e.g. recent space telescope missions such as the Herschel Space Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. This was a great opportunity to see and hear about first hand the latest in awe inspiring images from the most recent space missions.
The programme is detailed below together with links to some of the papers presented. These have been made available by kind permission of the authors. More may be added if and when the files become available to us.
Programme
| Monday 17th February | ||
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9.30
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Coffee and registration | |
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10.00
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Welcome | President of the RPS, Derek Birch FRPS |
| How many pixels do you need? | Dr Tony Kaye FRPS | |
| Webcams in astronomy | Dr P. Franks-Joseph FRAS | |
| Astrophotography with a Digital SLR camera | Prof. Ian Morrison FRAS | |
| Why stack deep-sky astrophotographs? | Graham Relf FRAS | |
| Lunch | ||
| Deep Sky Imaging from the New Forest Observatory | Prof. Gregory Parker | |
| Astrophotography as a Teaching Tool | Hayley Flood | |
| Stock Photo agencies and the Astrophotographer | Gary Evans FRAS FRPS | |
| What makes a winning astro-image? | Dr Marek Kukula FRAS | |
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4–5pm
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Drinks. Meet the speakers | |
| Tuesday 18th February | ||
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9.30
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Coffee and registration | |
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10.00
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Imaging Jupiter & National Astronomy Week | Dr David Arditti |
| Planetary Photography | Dr Graeme Awcock | |
| The Imaging Science Subsystem experiment on the Cassini spacecraft | Prof. C. D. Murray FRAS | |
| What can you do with 170,000 HST images? | Dr B. Simmons | |
| Digital Files, RAW vs JPEG | Dr Tony Kaye FRPS | |
| Lunch | ||
| The Evolution of Sensors for Solar Satellites | Dr Nick Waltham | |
| Snowballs in the Furnace: Imaging Comets near the Sun | Dr Geraint Jones FRAS | |
| Herschel Space Observatory Images | Dr Chris North FRAS | |
| Distant Galaxies seen by Herschel | Dr D Clements FRAS | |
| Imaging in the thermal Infrared with the James Webb Space Telescope | A. Glasse | |
Organisers/Chairpersons
Dr A.Kaye ASIS FRPS, Dr H. Walker FRAS, Prof. EFJ Ring ASIS FRPS FRAS