14th November - The Outer Limits

       Brian Sidney, one of our longstanding members, delivered a talk to us on Thursday 14th November entitled The Outer Limits. As Brian is also the President of the Newcastle Astronomical Society, we knew we were in for a high quality and authoritative talk about photographing the night sky.
 
         Brian didn't disappoint as he spoke to us and displayed great photographs he had taken in North America, the UK and elsewhere of eclipses of the sun and moon, constellations, meteors and comets. He also showed us photographs he had taken, including some taken recently and locally, of the aurors borealis. Brian explained to us some of the astronomical phenomena and the camera settings he used for his night sky photographs. Processing night sky photographs from both film and digital images were a particular point of interest. 
 
         We enjoyed an interesting evening and some of us were able to continue the discussion later in the pub, when Brian had his customary pint of Carling in front of him.
 
Ray Barnes
CCC Programme Secretary