TELESCOPES & ASTRONOMY SERVICES
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Thursday and Friday nights are viewing nights. Interested parties can come and look through a number of different telescopes at various different types of sky objects. Explanations of how the various telescopes work and what can be seen with the different sizes gives an idea the capabilities of each. The effects of different eyepieces used with each telescope is also demonstrated along with a basic introduction to the equatorial mount which is usually the most most difficult aspect of the telescope to understand. Visitors will also be shown how the different objects are located by using locally published books or by software programmes. Viewing nights may be cancelled due to poor weather of excessive clouds.
VIEWING DAYS
Visitors interested in buying optics like refractors, spotting scopes or binoculars for day time terrestrial viewing can look through the various types of instruments to get an idea of their various magnifications and fields of view. Also demonstrated during the day is projecting the Sun through a telescope so the Sun spots and eclipses can be viewed in safety (NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN THROUGH ANY TYPE OF OPTIC. IN FACT NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN AT ALL). There are ways to look at the Sun using filters, but these filters are specially made and cost hundreds of dollars.
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