The next meeting of the Huachuca Astronomy Club will be held on Friday, July 15th, at 7 pm in the Student Union community room of Cochise College.
The featured speaker is Tom Polakis of the Saguaro Astronomy Club. He will discuss time-lapse imaging with DSLR, planetary, and CCD cameras.Tom is a well-known amateur astronomer, photographer and writer. His articles have appeared in Deep Sky, Astronomy magazine and Sky & Telescope magazine. Most notable was a series called “Celestial Portraits”, which Astronomy ran for six years. In 46 articles he discussed the constellations, north and south, until he ran out of sky.
He has traveled to Australia, Chile and Namibia to study the southern sky and travels extensively in Arizona which he describes as “the greatest state in the US”
His other scientific interests include meteorology.