HOYS-LCO2 Picture Competition
Our teacher training program HOYS-LCO2 is slowly coming to an end. This year 49 teachers from 11 countries signed up to learn how to observe with the LCO telescope network, [...]
A HOYS participant perspective
How I started in astronomy research By: Dr. Franz-Josef (Josch) Hambsch, (VVS; BAV.; GEOS RR Lyr Group; AAVSO) I am a retired nuclear physicist of German origin, but live in [...]
A HOYS participant perspective
In at the deep end - An introduction to imaging with a peculiar galaxy ARP 227 and a 1m telescope (2/2) By: Mark Seaton, Flamsteed Astronomical Society Problems with the [...]
A HOYS participant perspective
In at the deep end - An introduction to imaging with a peculiar galaxy ARP 227 and a 1m telescope (1/2) By: Mark Seaton, Flamsteed Astronomical Society I signed up [...]
A HOYS participant perspective
Winning the picture competition By: Myles Gibson, Worthing Astronomers After winning the competition to produce a nice image from the HOYS data taken as part of the HOYS-LCO project, I [...]
A HOYS participant perspective
50 talks about HOYS to amateur astronomy societies By: Dirk Froebrich, PI of the HOYS Project Last night I gave the 50th talk about the HOYS project. This one was [...]
HOYS-LCO Project Update – Winners Picture Competition
A big thank you to everyone who participated in our HOYS-LCO picture competition over the last few months. After all the entries were in, all members of the HOYS advisory [...]
HOYS-LCO Project Update – New Target
The HOYS-LCO project is progressing well. In total we have had now 35 people applying to participate. Over the last 6months we have taken 60 sets of 3x2min B,V,R images [...]
A HOYS participant perspective
Six years of working with amateur astronomers – an ongoing success story By: Dirk Froebrich, PI of the HOYS Project This article was originally published in Spanish in the magazine [...]
A HOYS participant perspective
HOYS contributor, Mark Phillips, explains how he has tried to automate as much of the process of acquiring HOYS data and processing it as possible. What do you do?