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OMSI Astrophotography Conference 2010 Summary
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) Classroom 1 1945 SE Water Avenue Portland, OR 97214-3354, USA Updated on April 18, 2010 |
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Neil Heacock is an IT professional who moved out of the city for the first time in 2003. After living in LA, Seattle and Portland, he moved to somewhat more rural area of Clark County and really saw the stars. This birthed a strong interest in astronomy which has continued to grow and develop over the past 6 years. In 2006 Neil began to dabble in astrophotography and after attending the 2007 Northwest Astrophotography Conference his imaging stared to mature. Neil primarily considers himself a visual observer but with such amazing and easy to use imaging systems available he now images with one setup while observing with another. Neil uses a modified Canon 1000D DSLR camera and the images he produces are excellent. |
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Barry is a retired finance manager and stockbroker who has had a lifelong interest in space and astronomy. Although he didn't begin regular imaging until 2006, he, along with a friend, took his first astrophoto in high school.......Comet Arend-Roland in 1957, using a 35mm film camera. The boys developed the B&W photos in their dad's darkrooms. Almost 40 years later, he took his second photo......this time in color, of the comet Hale-Bopp. Barry says he gets the greatest satisfaction from producing pleasing images with a minimum of inexpensive equipment. He has done Afocal, Webcam, CCD and DSLR imaging through various types of telescopes. |
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Tom has been involved in astronomy for over 25 years, first visually, and shortly thereafter succumbing to imaging when Halley's comet showed up. Tom has used many CCD cameras over the last 20, starting with the tiny SBIG ST-4. Currently, he images from his backyard in Corvallis, his observatory in central Oregon that is shared with 4 other astronomers, or remotely using his 10" RC in New Mexico. Tom has been published in Sky and Telescope, the Astronomy Magazine web site, Astrophoto Insight, and numerous books and articles pertaining to astronomy. An EE by training, Tom is currently a program manager in R&D at Hewlett Packard. |
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Sean Curry lives in the beautiful Wagner Valley in Southern Oregon. He got his first telescope upon moving there in 2002, and began imaging with a modified DSLR in 2006. Sean has recently upgraded his equipment to include an AP900 Mount, a Tak FSQ106, and a QSI 583wsg camera. Once the skies clear from the Oregon Winter, he hope to take his imaging to a new level. Sean supports his astronomy hobby as a Lecturer in GIS at Southern Oregon University, and as a researcher at the University of the Pacific. |
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Ken Hose
Ken Hose has been active in visual astronomy for the last 10 years or so. He now has an observatory and taken up astro-imaging. As an engineer, he has an interest in the scientific aspects of the hobby and has a special interest in detecting exoplanet transits. |
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Duncan Kitchin has been taking astro images since 2003, starting with a point and shoot digital camera. Since 2005, he has been capturing deep sky images with a modified DSLR and various telescopes, switching more recently to a dedicated CCD camera. His current interests include capturing narrowband images from his back yard in heavily light polluted Beaverton. |
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Greg Marshall is a relative newcomer to astronomy and went directly into astro-photography beginning in 2005. But he has many years of experience in conventional photography and much of his professional career as an electronics engineer has been involved with image capture, processing and printing. Currently, he is employed by Xerox Corporation, where he designs specialized computers for image processing in printers and copiers. |
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David Haworth enjoys astronomy imaging and processing those images to bring out details that cannot be seen easily by visual observing with the same size optics. David Haworth started astroimaging with a Cookbook CCD camera he built in 1996 and since then has used many types of cameras to image the sky. David wrote Chapter 2: "Afocal Photography with Digital Cameras" in the second edition of "The Art and Science of CCD Astronomy" which was published in December 2005. David's images have appeared in magazine front covers, articles, books, catalogs, videos, music CD covers, T-shirts, other web sites, etc. |