| Event: | FSS-10 Astrophotography | | Dates: | 10/29 | | Time: | 1:00 to 3:00 | | Category: | Fall2026-SingleSession | | Location: | Zoom Teleconference | | Presenter: | Jeffry Mitton, Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado | Professor Mitton's "dedicated astro-camera" explores an incomprehensible vastness. Its pinpoint tracking of light depicts events such as the remnants of a supernova explosion named "Jellyfish" which is 5,000 light years away and 70 light years across. Jeff's photography has captured the "Ghost of Cassiopeia," and the Whirlpool Galaxy, 31 million light years away and canvassed among the 100 billion stars of the Milky Way. Jeff will describe his equipment and the planning that precedes a photographic outing.
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