The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton invites its members to learn astro imaging! ... Well, here's your chance to kindle the motivation with like-minded AAAP members. ... Or you just want to learn more about astrophotography but you didn’t know where to turn. ... AAAP member and astrophotographer Brian Van Liew is preparing to host a AAAP SIG ( Special Interest Group ) covering digital astrophotography. ... Types of imaging equipment . ... All images on this page created by Brian Van Liew. ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... Bad Astro Store . ... The Nine Planets . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... When two objects in the sky are as close as they can get, we say they have reached appulse . ... Venus and Jupiter are the third and fourth brightest objects in the sky, and this was a particularly close appulse; they got within a quarter of a degree of each other. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... THE BIRDCAGE: ARCHIVE OF OTHER BAD NEWS ITEMS . ...

... We present software and hardware approach used to integrate a new CCD controller with the COAST as well as results from lab tests of the detector and controller. ... By using an EMCCD as the detector, it is simple to introduce spectroscopic capability to the COAST, dispersing a spectrum of interfered light across a single row of the detector, and reading the row out every 0.2 ms (5 kHz), as shown in Fig. ... We report on progress made on a GDFT for the COAST which uses the new EMCCD spectrometer. ...