Latest Lucky Imaging Results Using the Stellafane Schupmann Telescope & Mt. Wilson 6" W&S Refractor
Friday, September 10, 2021, 7:00 pm
Latest Lucky Imaging Results Using the Stellafane Schupmann Telescope & Mt. Wilson 6" W&S Refractor
Friday, September 10 @ 7:00 PM via Zoom
Our September meeting will take place in-person at Seagrave Memorial Observatory in North Scituate and will also be shared via Zoom (and recorded) for those unable to attend in-person. Our speaker will join us remotely. Contact Linda Bergemann (LBergemann@aol.com) for Zoom Meeting link and information.
Those attending in-person are advised of the following:
- Please wear a face mask indoors, regardless of your vaccination status. You may shed your mask when outdoors.
- Special parking rules are in effect. Please park with your car and its headlights facing east, toward our driveway. Someone will be there to direct you.
In this presentation Thomas Spirock will present the latest results using the “lucky imaging” technique with the 13” f-10 Schupmann telescope at Stellafane, in Springfield, VT, and the 6” f-15 Warney and Swasey refractor, with a Brashear lens, at Mt. Wilson, in southern California. First, the unique and advantageous characteristics of the Schumann telescope will be discussed along with a brief history and description of the 6” W&S refractor at Mt. Wilson. Next, the “lucky imaging” technique will be described. Finally, a comprehensive list of resulting images will be presented; including Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and both “full disk” and high resolution images of the Moon.
Thomas Spirock has been a member of the Springfield Telescope Makers, at Stellafane, since 1989. He was instrumental in building both the 13” Schupmann telescope and the McGregor Observatory, at Stellafane, both of which were completed in 1995. He earned a Ph.D. from the New Jersey Institute of Technology working to develop the latest iteration of the solar vector-magnetograph at the Big Bear Solar Observatory in southern California in 2005. During the past several years, he has been applying the “lucky imaging” technique to data collected with both the 13” f-10 Schupmann telescope at Stellafane and the 6” f-15 W&S refractor, the 16” f-10 Mead Catadioptric and the 60” Cassegrain telescopes at Mt. Wilson.
