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Hello everyone,

The next virtual Beginner-SIG presentation of will be on Saturday April 17th, starting at 1:00pm.

Steve Emert will be presenting "Astronomy Terms".

Synopsis:

As is the case with any technical vocation or hobby, astronomy comes with its own specialized language, full of unusual terms and acronyms that can make it confusing to the beginner. In this B-SIG session, we will speak to many of these terms which we hope will clear the skies for you!

To join the virtual event, click this link: https://zoom.us/j/97260990378?pwd=WHB2T ... ZDbFVyUT09

Further information is posted on the front page of the MAS Forum.

Note: We will be opening up this link about 5 minutes before the event starts.

We hope you can join us!

Suresh Sreenivasan
MAS Beginner-SIG Coordinator

By the way this won't be a sequential A-Z listing of terms. I'll be grouping related terms together, providing a visual interpretation of all terms, and occasionally going off onto brief tangents which are hopefully entertaining before coming quickly back to topic. Also, after completing the presentation I came across a "glossary of astronomy terms" on Celestron's web site which turns out to actually be a comprehensive listing of telescope and optical terms. I'll be posting that list as a .pdf of a Word document along with a .pdf of the presentation slides right after the meeting.

Hope to see you there on Saturday!

Steve

Here is a copy of the presentation slides and also the copy of Celestron's astronomy terms (really, telescope and optics terms) with a few minor additions.

The entire video recording of today's presentation has been posted to the MAS YouTube channel:

The MAS YouYube channel can be found at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs0pH1 ... ACuj7RZdIQ

The direct link to this presentation is https://youtu.be/U6Gakai1l5k

Thanks Steve and Valts!

Great job today!

Suresh