Today, exactly 10yr ago, on Saturday 25th of October, 2014 we held our inaugural workshop for HOYS (it was called HOYS-CAPS then, but we quickly shortened it). Thus, Happy 10th Birthday to us!!! 😀🎂
The workshop taught some local (to Kent) amateur astronomers how to reduce imaging data, how CCDs worked (we stole our stage two lecture notes for that) and gave a brief overview of some of the science we want to address. The two images above show two of the slides with some of the science questions and possible solutions – i.e. what we will do in HOYS. This has obviously now been expanded a lot from then.
It is fun to see that we did not even have a target list then, but we did have some plans to build a new telescope – indeed 4 days earlier, a meeting took place that made a decision on which company won the tender for building it……
I do remember that at least one of the participants (Tim L.) is still active in the project. It would be nice to hear from some of the earlier participants about their opinions – please get in touch …