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:
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
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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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