West Valley Astronomy Club

The WVAC is a friendly, engaging, and informative Astronomy Community in the West Valley. We have an exciting program of activites from September to May. We invite you all to participate in our activities. We think joining us will enhance your interest in astronomy and astroimaging while having fun at the same time. Consider becoming a member. Our active members use a variety of telescopes, mounts, cameras and electronics, do visual astronomy or electronically assisted astronomy with cameras, or astrophotography by processing many hours of data captured by electronic cameras. We actively share our knowledge and experience with young and old, novices or experts. Please visit our website WWW.WVAC.NET

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Hal Szklinski

Hal has been a nature and landscape photographer for a long time.  Once he moved to Verrado in 2020, he started night photography with a friend using an old Nikon camera for general night sky, Milky Way, Star Trails, Moon and meteor photos.  He then purchased his first Celestron NexStar 6SE (6”) Schmidt-Cassegrain, Computerized Go-To, Alt-Az, telescope in 2021. He has several telescope objective lenses from 7mm thru 32mm, and also a ZWO ASI178MC camera which is connected to a laptop using SharpCap software used for the Planets.  Photoshop is used for all post processing.  Last year he upgraded his old camera to a new Nikon Z7ii with 14mm thru 300mm lenses, which are still used for general night sky photography, but can also be connected directly to the telescope. His goal is to learn to capture Deep Sky Objects.

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