Events

Astrophotography Primer

Milton Room, Cawthron Institute 164 Milton Street, The Wood, Nelson

Nevin Amos will present on his astrophotography journey from capturing single frame widefield Milky Way images 15 years ago through to multirow panoramic images, immersive VR capable 360-degree images to more recently deep sky nebula and galaxy images.  He will briefly discuss gear, settings and various capture and processing techniques.

Vacuums Don’t Suck: How Our Planet Doesn’t Lose Atmosphere to Space – Presented by Jeremy Taylor

Milton Room, Cawthron Institute 164 Milton Street, The Wood, Nelson

There's a line Flat Earthers use when criticising our basic understandings about our world that seems to win people to their way of thinking: "if space is a vacuum, why doesn't it suck all our atmosphere into space?" This gets people imagining the need for some sort of crystal dome to hold our atmosphere in. […]