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Presentations for 2009 Club Meetings in PowerPoint Format
The Constellation Orion
A walk through the popular winter constellation.		 The Webb Space Telescope
Introduction to the technology and mission of Hubble's successor.		 Gliese 581 Planetary System
To date the star Gliese 581 has 4 known planets, two of which lie in the star's habital zone.		 Stargazing on Mars
Imagine your were stargazing on Mars with a CCD camera mounted on a mars rover.
Astronomy for Cub and Boy Scouts
A presentation on astronomy for a younger audience - suitable for scouts, elementary school students. Includes discussion of the night sky, the solar system, deep sky objects, a bit about equipment and astronomy as a hobby.


Ryukyu Astronomy Club Logo

Our club logo in high resolution, uncompressed color.

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Archives
The slides can be printed on paper as a handout, or on transparency sheets (in color) for use with an overhead projector, or if you are fortunate enough to have a PC projector unit you can make the presentation directly from PowerPoint.

Feel free to use, abuse or improve to suit your needs!


Precession

A presentation developed for a meeting of our astronomy club. The presentation is in PowerPoint 2003 format. Be sure to print or at least read the "notes" below the slides - there is important information about the animations in the presentation.

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Introduction to Astronomy

A presentation developed to introduce those with no knowledge of Astronomy to our oldest science. Includes discussion of the night sky, the solar system, deep sky objects, books, web sites and other resources. The presentation is in PowerPoint 97 format and includes "notes" pages on slides that don't already lead the discussion. (Use the View, Notes Page menu command in PowerPoint to see notes, look for the print option for printing the notes.)

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Equipment Basics

A presentation developed to discuss basic astronomy equipment. Includes discussion of binoculars, telescopes, mounts, accessories, books, web sites and other resources. The presentation is in PowerPoint format.

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Filters for Astronomy

Covers solar, Moon, color and deep sky filters. The presentation is in PowerPoint 97 format.

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Discovering the Expanding Universe

A presentation developed for a meeting of our astronomy club. Provides quite a bit of information, but you will still be required to do a little homework before you can make a presentation. The presentation is in PowerPoint 2000 format.

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Exoplanets

A presentation developed for a meeting of our astronomy club. Provides quite a bit of information and online resources about exoplanets, but you will still be required to do a little homework before you can make a presentation. The presentation is in PowerPoint 2000 format.

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Saturn

A presentation developed for a public star party of our astronomy club. Some of the information for the presentation is in the "notes" section of the slides. The presentation is in PowerPoint 2000 format.

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Mars - Up Close and Personal

A presentation developed for a public star party of our astronomy club. Some of the information for the presentation is in the "notes" section of the slides. The presentation is in PowerPoint 2000 format.

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Planning Observing Sessions

A presentation developed for a meeting of our astronomy club. The presentation is in PowerPoint 2000 format.

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Observation Assistance
Scope Calculator


This MS Excel spreadsheet allows you to store and calculate the vital statistics of your telescope and eyepieces. For the telescope it includes calculations for maximum resolution, maximum field of view and maximum magnification. For each eyepiece it calculates true field of view and magnification. Also allows for up to two different barlows. Requires MS Excel 97 or later. If you do not have Excel, but want to use the Scope Calculator, you can download an Excel Viewer from Microsoft's web site. It moves around, but try Download Center at office.microsoft.com.

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Observation Logs

Based on samples from several books I have created loose-leaf observation log sheets to help record observing sessions.  There are two sheets, one for just narrative log entries, the other with a sketching area.  I would recommend printing with a laser printer or, if you must print with an inkjet printer, make copies on a copy machine. Inkjet printouts tend to smear when covered with heavy dew.

(5KB)		 Both the narrative log sheet and sketch log sheet in PDF format.  Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (available at www.adobe.com) to view or print. Can be printed and hand written or completed on the screen and printed.

(6KB)		 Both the narrative log sheet and sketch log sheet in Microsoft Word format.  Requires MS Word to view, print or edit.  Narrative log sheet automatically repeats session information on the top of successive pages.

Deep Sky Object Lists

I have extracted the following Deep Sky Object lists from either the source of the list or other  reliable sources and converted them to Microsoft Excel 97 and Adobe PDF format.  The Excel lists allow easy sorting by RA, Dec, magnitude, constellation, etc.   If you do not have Excel, but want to view the lists, you can download a free Excel Viewer from Microsoft's web site. It moves around, but try Download Center at office.microsoft.com.  For the PDF files you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, available free at www.adobe.com.

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All 110 official Messier objects, including the best estimate of the disputed and otherwise non-existent M102.

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The 109 objects from Sky and Telescope's Caldwell list.

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The entire NGC list.

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The entire IC list.

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The Herschel 400 - 400 of the best objects from the NGC list as selected by the Astronomical League.