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On the October 28, the Observatório do Lago Alqueva hosts the Telescopes and Mounts Course.
If you ever wanted to buy a telescope but don’t know which is a suitable one, if you already have a telescope but don’t know how to use it or if your telescope equatorial mount is already equipped with a Go-to system but you can’t make it work, then this course is for you!
Contents of the Telescopes and Mounts Course
- Astronomy introductory notions
- The Celestial Sphere and its diurnal and yearly apparent motion.
- Coordinate systems – Horizontal System and Equatorial system.
- Telescopes
- History of the telescope and evolution of optical design.
- Optical designs more commonly used nowadays by amateur astronomers.
- Mounts
- Types of Mounts.
- How to balance the mount.
- Mounts Home position set-up.
- Go-To Systems.
- Tracking, Guiding and periodic error.
- Solar Observing
- Technics for solar observation.
- Telescopes specific for solar observations.
- Telescopes filters.
- Practical part, with assembling and disassembling of telescopes and astronomical observation.
Course Duration: 9h
Program:
- Saturday, October 28th
- 10:30 – 11:00 | Participants Reception
- 11:00 – 13:00 | Solar Observation – theoretical and practical part.
- 13:00 – 15:00 | Lunch break
- 15:00 – 19:00 | Theoretical part of course
- 19:00 – 21:00 | Dinner break
- 21:00 – 00:00 | Practical part, with assembling and disassembling of telescopes.
Participants can bring their own telescopes to the practical part.
Registration fee: 30€
Register already! Limit date for registrations – 27 de Outubro de 2017
To register, please send a email to: geral @ olagoalqueva.pt, with the subject “Telescopes and Mounts Course”.
Notes:
- The workshop is limited to a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 participants.
- Participants, after submitting their registration, will receive a confirmation via email. On that email can be found details about how to proceed to pay the registration fee.
- Registrations made by email not paid until the October 27th and their payment proof received by OLA are not considered valid.
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