Workshop: Observing: Tips & Ideas / Eyepieces / Filters
This workshop features everything you need to know to improve your observing experience.
• Your body: Proper sleep, nutrition, breathing techniques.
• How to use your eyes: Which eye, dark adaption, relaxed with no strain, the sweet spot and the no-go zone. Close one eye when using charts, keeping your body still.
• How to dress
• Telescopes & Binoculars: binoculars, telescopes, how charts are easy for dobs – hard for SCTs, fast vs slow, coma.
• Other equipment: Planisphere, books (iDSA), (other workshop), Red flashlight that is super dim and another one super bright, white flashlight, several pencils and paper (other workshop)
• Filters: How they work, different kinds.
• Eyepieces: Different sizes, AFoV vs TFoV, weight, cost, “planetary” vs “deep-sky” eyepieces, why they can cost so much.