Mt Kent Axis cam

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Posters and other stuff

Currently researching posters. I would like to put as much information as possibe on the poster, but not creating something so busy that it cant be read. This is where the courses Web Publishing and Graphical User Interface Design (or whatever it's called this week) will come in handy. The trick is to grab attention firstly, make sure people stay interested, and keep the information in a steady flow without having the reader swamped with information.

I'd like to make it informative so that everyone can read it, whether they be a school student, adult interested in astronomy, or a professional. I believe I can succeed in this considering the topic is a bit fringe.

I'll possibly use a washed (watermark?) out image of a star and nearby planet (artist's impression) which I hope to create myself - as the background. Brown edges, multiple panes each describing a seperate issue. The left side panel (possibly running down the entire poster will contain all data on the planet in human readable form. This will satisfy the constraint of having all data there if necessary. The panes will follow in a logical order of the process, such as research, equipment, data acquisition, processing of data, results, summary. Of course, an execuitive summary style introdiction (possibly the real introduction).

Note: include 51Peg.

Other stuff...This project is starting to come together, despite the lack of data...in fact, the data is close to becoming one of the minor parts.
Once the data comes in, the light curve will be processed, results of this will be documented, and the writup will start. Realistically I expect to spend maybe 20 hours on the project once the data is in.

Once I cash up and purchase my own decent scope, I reckon I'll be doing more of this.

Latest chances for transit

Here's the next transits for october/november/december: Transits
The entries in bold red are the final list. I have to use a planetarium app to make sure these are viewable at that time, and closer to the time I will be looking at weather forcasts. I really need this data by the start of december, otherwise december/january are going to be rather busy months.

As for the trial run with the images found on another site, I think I screwed up. The laptop went into the shop yesterday (again) and I left the images on it. I believe a backup was done earlier, so lets see how long it takes me to find the images on the server :\