Thursday, July 28, 2005

Imaging the Sky 2005

I attended the Imaging the Sky 2005 conference, Saturday, July 23. While it's a small conference it's rich in speakers. Richard Berry, The Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing, was the standout speaker was there to discuss the latest edition of his book and software. Later Richard did a comparison of imaging with CCD cameras and Digital SLR cameras.

David Sandage, making his first appearance at the conference, did an overview of the workflow process involved in CCD imaging. It was very interesting to see the process detailed from beginning to end. I'd like to see David give the same talk at some of the local star parties.

The last talk of the day was presented by Doug George, of Diffraction Limited, on Maxim DL. Maxim is one of the premier astro-imaging programs, but is a large, complex application. Having Doug available to demonstrate Maxim's features was great!

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