As a service to the community SJAA offers FREE
classes on astronomy intended for beginners. These programs
assume no prior knowledge. Topics are selected to best answer
the questions of those new in the hobby or those that do not have
a technical background.
This program is distinct from the General Meeting Program which
presents lectures on the current state of the art in astronomy.
Those lectures generally assume the listeners are familiar with
the physics and concepts involved.
Check the SJAA Schedule for
the current list of topics
The slides for many of the past lectures are now on line.
Except as noted all are browser viewable. These presentations
were converted from the original PowerPoint using OpenOffice running
on SUSE Linux.
This is the presentation of how to find objects using astronomical
charts. If provides a detailed example of one star hop.
A new program where we help you use your
telescope. We hold these about once per quarter.
See the schedule or the newsletter for more details.
Each month I provide a planetarium style introduction to the
bright objects visible that night. These presentations are
scripts based on the Stellarium
astronomy program.
The Starhopping 101 and Advanced Chart Reading lessons provide
you the techniques of how to use charts. Now it is time
to practice. Here is a picture of the Sagitarius area from
the Advanced Class. {Click for a full size copy}.
