January B-SIG Virtual Presentation - Sat. Jan. 11th / 1:00pm - Understanding/, Forecasting Photographing Northern Lights

[Sureshks]

Hi everyone,

Join us on Saturday January 11th at 1:00pm CT for the next virtual presentation of the MAS Beginner Special Interest Group event of the Fall/Winter season. Bob King will be presenting “Understanding, Forecasting and Photographing the Northern Lights”

Synopsis:

"We'll look at what causes the aurora, how to get alerts so you don't miss a great show and easy ways to photograph them...”

To join the virtual event, Click this Zoom link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85206750082?p ... apUKv9Yb.1

Meeting ID: 852 0675 0082
Passcode: BSIG2025

We will open up this link about 10 minutes before the event starts.

Bob King is well known thru his "AstroBob" blog. He is one of the more prolific observers and commentators in amateur astronomy today. He loves comets, and also enjoys viewing the Northern Lights from his home near Duluth. He writes about astronomy for Sky & Telescope magazine, and the Duluth News Tribune.

He is a great speaker on all things astro, and is the author of "Magnificent Aurora", which you can find here:

https://shopatsky.com/products/magnificent-aurora

We hope you can join us!!

Suresh

[Sureshks]

Hi all,

Bob King gave a great presentation on Auroras. There were 44 people on the Zoom call.

If you missed it, the presentation was recorded and can be viewed at this link: https://youtu.be/hYxdDzIsq94

A reminder that there are 22 recorded BSIG presentations available for viewing on the MAS YouTube Channel.

MAS YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... al+society

Here is the list of BSIG recordings that are presently available.

BSIG Recordings as of 2025-01-12.jpg

The next MAS BSIG presentation is scheduled for Sat. Feb. 8th at 1:00pm CT. Dave Falkner will be discussing the Artemis program.

We look forward to seeing everything then!

Suresh Sreenivasan
MAS BSIG Coordinator