SAS Lecture: Tackling Turbulence


Washington Wetlands Centre, Discovery Room

About this event :

As larger telescopes get, as more light they gather.

This together with the wish for higher spatial resolution gives rise to the development of telescopes of larger size.

However, while the light gathering power increase works very well, due to the perturbations of our atmosphere the larger telescopes not necessarily deliver images of higher resolution, with the turbulence of the air pushing them back into the resolution regime of large amateur telescopes.

This presentation Jurgen illuminates the problem and solutions to overcome it.

Talks in Person

This walk will be held at the Washington Wetlands Centre (Discovery Room).

The talk will also be broadcast via MS Teams (providing no technical and/or WIFI difficulties)

Please show you support to our speaker and the Society in person if you can be there on the lecture night.

 
Teams Talk Details 
We now have MS Teams (this replaces Zoom) for live video streaming of the our monthly talks.
Please try to attend in person if you can as it goes along way in showing you support for our speaker and our Society.
 
Our Committee members David Ettie/Will Harvey  are the admin/leads regarding administration and set up of our Teams Pro account.
If you don’t already have it we suggest you download the MS Teams app prior to the meeting.
Teams Meeting Details are:

Hopefully we see you all at the Wetlands Centre (Discovery Room) , Raffle & Refreshments as usual.

The talk will held at the Washington Wetlands Centre (Discover Room) on Sunday and will streamed via Teams.
If you haven’t been in a while why not come along and show your support.

When Who Where

  • Date:  Sunday 16th March 2025,
  • Time: 7pm.
  • Speaker: Dr Jurgen Schmoll (Durham University, Centre for Advanced Instrumentation) (SAS, DAS, CaDAS).
  • Venue:    At Washington Wetlands Centre (Discovery Room) and also broadcast via Zoom.

Our speaker

Our speaker is Dr Jurgen Schmoll  a is a member of  Astronomer and Instrument Scientist based at the Centre for Advanced Instrumentation and in the Department of Physics, Durham University.

He is also an honorary member of the SAS, Secretary of DAS and chair of CaDAS)

 

Your host : Martin Kennedy