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CAS videos, help pages and activities

Here you will find a series of home made videos by CAS to help you with your telescopes.

You will also find stargazing challenges and many other activities for all ages.

 NEW CAS videos!!

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CAS have made an instructional video for setting circles.

Click on this link:

Setting Circles instructional video

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Additional reference material for the above video:

EQ setting circles guide pdf. 

Setting Circles guide stars list pdf.

 

 We now also have a short instructional video

on using the club`s PST solar telescope, click on the link below:

Using the CAS PST telescope safely. 

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From our own astro-imaging guru Fred Deakin

How to process stacked images of M3 globular star cluster. 

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Our chairman has compiled a video of some of our images from 2018 

CAS Astroimages 2018 

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 Fred`s Twenty quick tips for telescopes pdf.

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For beginners & experts alike have a go at Fred`s 2017 Astronomy Viewing Challenge 

(still valid today except for the comet)

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Have a bit of fun with this video made by Kevin Reid ;o) 

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Thinking of buying a telescope?

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Weekly British Astronomical Association Webinars 

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Space based activities for all from the James Webb Space Telescope team 

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Keep the Children entertained and educated at the NASA Kids Club 

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Lockdown Astrophography for everyone from Alyn Wallace Photography

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Huge seletion of lockdown activities here by the SETI institute 

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Would you like to take part in citizen science?, perhaps help find planet 9?,  find new supernovae, black holes or comets?

Click here for these projects & many more. 

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New project to add HOY-CAPS

(Hunting Outbursting Young Stars with the Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science )

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/342831266192555/about/

http://astro.kent.ac.uk/~df/hoyscaps/index.html 

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Did you know that you can access Hubble data and process it yourself?

Click here for a tutorial from our Fred Deakin

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Would you like to practice image stacking and processing?

Try this video from our Fred on processing LRGB images

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Latest FAS newsletter (we feature quite prominently)

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Keep up to date with Fred Deakins YouTube channel and instructional videos.

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Are you taking part in a Messier-Marathon this March? click for details

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See Fred Deakin's talk for the Virtual Café Sci - Automated Astrophotography: An Introduction

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Keep up with the Cornwall Science Community here.

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New to astrophography and don't know what to point at? Click here for a free monthly guide

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Try your hand at our 2023 Quiz night by Fred Deakin

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Installing and Setting Up SGPro and Utilities on a new Computer for Astrophotography

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Try your hand at Fred's latest 2024 astronomy Quiz

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