June Meeting

Due to a unforeseen scheduling conflict, our Bigelow Gulch meeting location is unavailable for the second Friday in June. We will be meeting at the same location on the third Friday, June 21, please mark your calendars! This month’s meeting topic will be a presentation by the club President, Matt Wallin on the topic low light human vision and visual astronomy. The presentation will give an overview of the physiology of human vision, then transition to a review and discussion of the book “Visual Astronomy of the Deep Sky” by Roger N. Clark. Clark distilled the extensive science that was done in the pre-war and WWII era to understand low light human vision and it’s capabilities. Clark then adapted that data to an astronomy context and had many scientifically based recommendations for visual astronomers. Clark’s insights can give a scientific method to analyze what observations may be within the potential of your equipment, and recommendations to see the most possible at the eyepiece. His insights are a real eye-opener (I’m so sorry, I had to). I will keep the terrible puns to an absolute minimum in the presentation, promise 😉 Hope to see you at the 6:30 pm BBQ/Potluck!