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Amateur Astronomy in Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes Deaf Astronomical Society aims to provide a forum for the discussion
throughout the years, we have helped many to gain and grow an interest in Astronomy.
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2007
Programme
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Friday 19th January 2007 – 7pm
Deep Sky Objects
- Observing the Deep sky Objects in the constellations of Orion, Lepus, Monoceros and Canis Major.
o - Meet us at Emberton County Park, Emberton, near Olney, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
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(See report & photo)
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Friday 16th February 2007
Moons of Saturn
Photo: Wikimedia
- Observing the Saturn and her natural satellites (moons)
o - Meet us at Emberton County Park, Emberton, near Olney, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
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(See report & photos)
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Friday 16th March 2007
Madog’s Wells Hotel
- Running Trip to the Madog’s Wells Hotel, Welshpool in Mid-Wales with British Deaf Astronomical Association.
o - Observing the Messier Marathon.
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(See report & photos)
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Friday 13th April 2007 – 7pm
Midlands Deaf Astronomical Society
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The Talks by David Kettle & Derek Rowley
- Visiting an Open day of a new group called Midlands Deaf Astronomical Society in Spalding, Lincolnshire.
o - Meet us at the car park at Emberton County Park, Emberton, near Olney, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire for transport to Spalding.
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(See report & photos)
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Friday 18th May 2007 – 7pm
Observing the galaxies in the Virgo Clusters
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Photo: Wikimedia, Virgo Cluster by Kees Scherer.
- Observing the Virgo’s galaxies in a cluster.
o - Meet us at Emberton County Park, Emberton, near Olney, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
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June, July and August – Closedo
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Monday 10th September till Monday 17th September 2007
Autumn Star Party, North Norfolk
- Running Trip to the Sky Camp at Norfolk for one week, organised by British Deaf Astronomical Association.
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Friday 12th October 2007 – 7pm
Two planets to be seen
- Observing the planets of Neptune & Uranus.
o - Meet us at Emberton County Park, Emberton, near Olney, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
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Friday 9th November 2007 – 7pm
Midlands Deaf Astronomical Society
- Running trip to Midlands Deaf Astronomical Society in Spalding, Lincolnshire.
o - Meet us at the car park at Emberton County Park, Emberton, near Olney, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire for transport to Spalding.
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Friday 7th December 2007 – 7pm
Christmas Celebration
- Festive Evening Deals
o - Harvester Eastlake, Foxmile, Milton Keynes, MK15 0YS.
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MKDAS Observatory
Public Open Evenings
Everyone is welcome!
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The MKDAS Observatory is located at
Emberton County Park, Emberton, near Olney,
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
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Find us on the A509 and meet us at the reception – 7pm.
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Please text us if you are coming on
07845319228
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Autumn Sky camp at North Norfolk (Monday 10th September – Monday 17th September 2007)
Autumn Sky camp at North Norfolk (Monday 10th September – Monday 17th September 2007)
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A brand-new Meade 16-inch Lightbridge Dobsonian was brought by Derek Rowley.
David’s alignment was a bit off to fix this he used the screws located on the finderscope’s crosshairs to make it perfectly aligned with his eyepiece.
Played a game to recognise the constellations at the campsite’s pub to have the evening meals and socialising.
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First night on arrival, it was so strong winds, that night Derek’s new Meade 16 inch Lightbridge telescope to start first observing with a planet, Jupiter. It was clear to see the Jupiter’s belt – the wide equatorial zone was visible in the centre surrounded by two equatorial belts.
One of the best to be seen NGC6888 (The Crescent Nebula) with a 2″ eyepiece 22mm Panoptic with UHC (Ultra High Contrast) filter allowed transmission of almost 100% of the radiation from both OIII, H -Beta and H-Alpha with this strong blocking of the sky background an unexpected wealth of details becomes visible of gas nebulae.
The GOTO 12″ SCT telescope was controlled to spot the red planet, Mars in a broad daylight at 11am in the morning – it’s so amazing to see it in the shape D. Also the Rising Venus in the east horizon was seen in the shape of C as it’s a very thin crescent Venus.
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