July, 2025

Monthly Meeting

The Monthly Meeting will be held at 7:00 pm on Sunday, July 13th 2025 in Room 212 DeLoach Hall on the campus of UNCW. We will try to "simulcast" the meeting via Zoom. For more info including the meeting link, please contact us via the contact page.

Karl Adlon will present "Something About Planetary Imaging"

When it comes to planetary astrophotography, what I know is FireCapture to record video, AutoStakkert 4 to select and stack best frames, and RegiStax 6 to process stacked image to bring out detail. These 3 software 'apps' are what was recommended in 2014.

“Gastronomy”

The “gAstronomy Society” meeting for this month will be at TBA? located at
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Please join us at 5:00 pm for supper and astronomical conversation.

Public Observing

Our next Public Observing Session is August 2nd starting at 8:00 pm and continuing until 9:30 pm.
Location: Carolina Beach State Park
We'll be observing the first quarter moon, the planets Jupiter and Mars, and some of the summer star clusters and nebulae. If you have a telescope or binoculars, bring them!

This viewing session will canceled if it is raining at the starting time.

Please take note: For safety and consideration to others, we ask that you refrain from using flash photography after dark. This includes cell phones. There are two reasons for this.

Once a person's eyes are accustomed to the dark it takes several minutes for them to acclimate again. Eyes acclimated to the dark can see greater detail through our telescopes.
A flash if seen directly through the eyepiece of a telescope could be blinding. While this blindness most likely will not be permanent, it is still quite painful.

If you don't know how to turn off your flash, we will be happy to assist you.

Thank you.