PUBLIC LECTURE Stunning Images with Amateur Equipment The availability of inexpensive digital cameras has enabled amateurs with only modest telescopes to take pictures of the night sky that 15 years ago would have been the envy of professional observatories. See for example the picture which was taken from Dublin city by clicking here: http://webtreatz.com:80/images/zoom/gremlin/viewsize/lrgb_final.jpg It is an image of M13, a 'globular cluster' of about a million stars, and was taken from a back garden in Raheny in Dublin city by David Grennan using amateur equipment, but would have been the state-of -the-art for professional observatories only 15 years ago. Astronomy Ireland's May public lecture is by David Grennan and Jed Glover, who are two of Ireland's leaders in amateur astro-photography, and will give a layman's guide on how combine ordinary digital cameras and clever-but-simple software tricks to achieve stunning images of the heavens, along with showing off many of the breathtaking images of nebulae, star clusters and distant galaxies they have taken themselves from suburban gardens. This is a talk for everyone who appreciates the aesthetic beauty of the skies. It will also show how commonly available commercial equipment can potentially be used by everybody to take stunning images of the cosmos. For those of you unable to make it to the lecture, a DVD of the talk can be booked online now at - www.astronomy.ie/lectureDVD.html Bookings: www.astronomy.ie or (01) 847 07 77 Organiser: Astronomy Ireland Lecture Title: "Digital Deep Sky Astrophotography" Lecture Venue: Physics Building, Trinity College Dublin. Date: Monday, 14 May 2007 Time: 8:00pm Admission: 5euro (3euro concessions) ALL WELCOME Astronomy Ireland Society · Magazine · Telescopes www.astronomy.ie Tel (01) 847 0777