We invite you to join us on Friday, January 9th at 7:30PM for our January monthly meeting. 

Our speaker this month is our own Second Chair Chris Szaban.

Chris is a life-long astronomy enthusiast who has been dabbling in astrophotography using alt-az mounts on wedges for the past five years. Through sheer stubbornness, he has refused to listen to reason, and has instead plunged head first into this ‘wedge issue’.

Chris’ talk is entitled “The Biggest Wedge Issue In Mounts”

Wedges have been subject to scorn and ridicule from many in the astronomy community, especially among the astrophotography crowd. Discussion forums are filled with claims that wedges are very difficult to use, lousy at tracking, and a waste of time for imaging. Yet, the lowly wedge shares many similarities with other types of equatorial mounts, and many observatories and high-end consumer telescopes employ them. In this talk, we’re going to demystify the equatorial wedge. We’ll go over how and why it works, its pros and cons, and whether your alt-az mount could benefit from one.

Following Chris’ presentation, we will have an intermission, followed by door prizes, and then the Sky This Month for January. 

The address for our meeting is the parish hall at St. Matthews-on-the-Plains Anglican Church, 126 Plains Road East, Burlington, ON L7T 2C3. Doors will open at 7:00PM, with the meeting beginning promptly at 7:30. Zoom broadcast details are below.