Message from the President
As so many of you know, we launched the Gateway Remote Telescope program last year. This gave members the unprecedented opportunity to get involved with a state-of-the-art Astro-imaging telescope in the dark skies of remote Texas. We are thrilled to be offering this again this year and are also happy to announce that we are adding a telescope in the high mountains of the Atacama desert of Chile. So club members will have access to doing some amazing Astro-imaging in both hemispheres!
The southern telescope is a fantastic Astro-Physics 130GTX and it has a full frame mono camera. This complements our Astro-Physics 175 telescope in Texas beautifully as both are almost exactly at 31 degrees north and 31 degrees south latitude respectively. Giving our Astro-imagers complete coverage of both northern and southern skies. As with the existing telescope in Texas, we will offer members different levels of participation from full control of the telescope to data download libraries for their own image processing. We will also conduct quarterly GRT free lectures and demonstrations to showcase the great work our members are doing.
Go to the club website and check out the offering: https://aaa.org/gateway/
This is going to be an amazing journey, and I am really looking forward to the great pictures our club members will be sharing. There are amazing targets in the southern hemisphere from the Magellanic Clouds to the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) which the new GRT South telescope captured earlier this year:
