Astrophotography Class time: Tu 6:30 – 7:25pm Tu & Th 7:30 – 10:10pm Meeting Place: SSC B-310 and/or APSU Observatory on The Farm Instructor: Dr. Spencer Buckner Office: SSC B-326 (through B-332) Office Hours: MWF 10:15 – 11:30am MWThF 1:30 – 2:30pm or by appointment

Grading Planetarium Test………...10% Logbook……………..……30% Photographic Projects…..50% Participation………………10% A…90 – 100%B…80 – 89% C…70 – 79%D…60 – 69% F…<60%

Planetarium Test Learn the names, locations and shapes of 25 constellations. Five from each season and five circumpolar Learn the names and locations of 30 named stars (no Bayer designations). No more than two per constellations. Pass/fail. Can be taken multiple times. Last day to take the test is Thursday December 10 Key to planetarium can be checked out from Ms. Sherry in SSC B-332

Logbook Bound book of some kind. You can find fancy ones or a cheap composition book. Log every image with  Date & time  Telescope  Eyepiece or PowerMate if used  Camera  Exposure settings: time, ISO, f-stop, etc.  Will be collected and graded several times during the semester for number of images and completeness

Photographic Projects Photographic projects will be turned in as jpeg’s in the D2L Dropbox. Projects will be of the Lunar Eclipse, the Moon (not eclipsed), Jupiter, Saturn, several Messier objects, a star trails image and several others to be determined.

Participation Mostly helping out with intro observing nights. I will drop at one 1 st Quarter night and one (possibly two) Dark Sky nights. If the Lunar Eclipse night is clear I will not drop it as you will need it for one of the photographic projects.

Cameras If you have a DSLR or better quality point-and-shoot camera of your own, use it. The department has four Canon Rebels (one old and three not so old) for use by the class.

Telescopes Most images will be done using the 8” RC’s. Once it is operational, some “special images” will be done with the 20” The 100mm Refractor will also be available for imaging. Obviously, we will have to work in pairs since there aren’t enough telescopes for everyone.

Adjourn to The Farm Carpooling is encouraged! A key to The Farm will be available for check-out from Ms. Sherry by next week.