July Zoom Hangout Sunday (July 10th) 1800UTC

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July Zoom Hangout Sunday (July 10th) 1800UTC

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Here's the link! Come join us for a get together.

Stephen W. Ramsden is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Solarchat Monthly Hangout
Time: Jul 10, 2022 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84819417959

Meeting ID: 848 1941 7959
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Re: July Zoom Hangout Sunday (July 10th) 1800UTC

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Great !

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Re: July Zoom Hangout Sunday (July 10th) 1800UTC

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If nothing comes up I hope to chime in.


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count me in


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Re: July Zoom Hangout Sunday (July 10th) 1800UTC

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Hi all...

I am planning to attend as well.

A question I was hoping to have someone delve into is gain setting during capture. It has traditionally been advised to be kept low, but the 'unity gain' for the CMOS chips is usually 100 or more and I have been using these higher settings for some time and it seems to be working fine (IMHO ;) ) Comments on the subject?

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Re: July Zoom Hangout Sunday (July 10th) 1800UTC

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Thanks Stephen, I had forgotten :oops:

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Re: July Zoom Hangout Sunday (July 10th) 1800UTC

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See you later,
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Re: July Zoom Hangout Sunday (July 10th) 1800UTC

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see you all there


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Re: July Zoom Hangout Sunday (July 10th) 1800UTC

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I might be able to share some live sun


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Re: July Zoom Hangout Sunday (July 10th) 1800UTC

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Great Meeting and fantastic resource of information. I appreciate everyone's patience with my newbie questions.

I have been messing around with DSO for years, but they reccently opened a new tollroad about a 1/4 mile from my house with those gigantic flood lights about every 100 yards. Getting data for DSOs takes a hugh amount time now, even when using NB filters. I am thinking Solar maybe more suited for my location, and good news it is not effected by light pollution.

Curious, is there any other location for the recorded sessions other than Steven's YouTube channel I checked and could only find two pass Solar Chat sessions on the YouTube channel. One from June and another one from February. I was just curious if there was another locaion for the past Solar Chats. Sometimes I can't make the live sessions, but always find them educational. Nothing beats live demos on different topics.

If Steven sees this, it would be super helpful if you could create a Playlist on your YouTube channel just for these solar chats. Right now they are kind of intermingled with a lot of Birding videos. I get you are probably extreamly busy, so just a suggestion.

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Re: July Zoom Hangout Sunday (July 10th) 1800UTC

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Great seeing everybody, it was a very good meeting. Thank you Stephen and everybody else.

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Re: July Zoom Hangout Sunday (July 10th) 1800UTC

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Andrew J
I too once was big into deep sky observing but in the last 20 years light pollution has exploded in the area where I live. Back in the 1970's and 1980's we had nice dark skies but now the skies are rapidly becoming a washed out blue-grey and the Milky Way, while still visible is becoming quite washed out and I'll be surprised if it's visible at all in another decade. I now would have to go deep into the mountains NW of my home to get a dark view end even then it isn't what it used to be. One hope for me is that my dad's place just outside of Lowndesville still has rural dark skies and the Milky Way still shows detail well to the naked eye. I'll probably end up moving down there within a couple of years and that may resurrect deep sky observing for me. But like you have said, Solar observing is immune to light pollution and is certainly a great alternative to nighttime observing of any type. And the Sun changes more than any other object I know of. It's so dynamic. Never boring.

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Re: July Zoom Hangout Sunday (July 10th) 1800UTC

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The link to the May meeting is here viewtopic.php?t=36408

It is the only one that I recorded. Many of the others were chats and weren't recorded I am afraid ;)

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Thanks for another great meeting. It was good to see you all yesterday and some interesting topics as always!

Looking forward to the next meeting

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Montana wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 10:46 am The link to the May meeting is here viewtopic.php?t=36408

It is the only one that I recorded. Many of the others were chats and weren't recorded I am afraid ;)

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Thanks Alexandra for the info. I just wanted to confirm I was not missing some other link for the other sessions. Happy to see they are now being recorded.

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DeepSolar64 wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 1:33 am Andrew J
I too once was big into deep sky observing but in the last 20 years light pollution has exploded in the area where I live. Back in the 1970's and 1980's we had nice dark skies but now the skies are rapidly becoming a washed out blue-grey and the Milky Way, while still visible is becoming quite washed out and I'll be surprised if it's visible at all in another decade. I now would have to go deep into the mountains NW of my home to get a dark view end even then it isn't what it used to be. One hope for me is that my dad's place just outside of Lowndesville still has rural dark skies and the Milky Way still shows detail well to the naked eye. I'll probably end up moving down there within a couple of years and that may resurrect deep sky observing for me. But like you have said, Solar observing is immune to light pollution and is certainly a great alternative to nighttime observing of any type. And the Sun changes more than any other object I know of. It's so dynamic. Never boring.

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Hi James.

Pretty much the same situation here near Houston, TX. Hope to move to some darker skies myself in a few years


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Re: July Zoom Hangout Sunday (July 10th) 1800UTC

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Houston!! You’ve gotta have bright urban skies.


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Re: July Zoom Hangout Sunday (July 10th) 1800UTC

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Hi everyone...

It was a great live session on Sunday and enjoyed the opportunity to chat, review topics, and see the live sun courtesy of Steve.

Looking forward to the August session.

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Is this always the second Sunday of the month at 1800 UTC?


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Re: July Zoom Hangout Sunday (July 10th) 1800UTC

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MapleRidge wrote: Sun Jul 10, 2022 3:05 am Hi all...

I am planning to attend as well.

A question I was hoping to have someone delve into is gain setting during capture. It has traditionally been advised to be kept low, but the 'unity gain' for the CMOS chips is usually 100 or more and I have been using these higher settings for some time and it seems to be working fine (IMHO ;) ) Comments on the subject?

Brian
What was the outcome of the gain discussion?


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Re: July Zoom Hangout Sunday (July 10th) 1800UTC

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A recording of the meeting can be found on yutube


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