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BAA Instruments & Imaging Section AGM - 2001

2001 May 26 - held at the much favoured Humfrey Rooms - Northampton - UK - yet again on a beautiful sunny day. The attendance was slightly down this year with about 50 of the UK's keenest observers, opticians and telescope makers. Our host - the Northampton Natural History Society - used their new hi-tech video equipment to project large screen webcam images of a spectrum experiment and PowerPoint presentations used by most of the speakers. Bob Neville - BAA I&I Director - chaired the meeting. These are a few of my pictures from the day.....Maurice Gavin

Synopsis of meeting and speakers
Steve Foulkes - an automated supernovae search controlled by the author's software using a 25cm Meade LX200 + SBIG ST-7 camera.
Maurice Gavin - a low cost CCTV camera, building a hi-res stellar spectrograph and confirmatory spectra of Nova Aql 2001 & SN2001bg.
Andrew Elliott - remote occultation observations via ultra-sensitive CCTV cameras on both finder and 25cm Meade LX200.
John Saxton -    CCD photometry and results of short timescale events like CVs via a MX5 camera and 20cm Newtonian.
Peter Moreton - design and marketing of a new Audine style CCD cameras using Kodak 401E and Marconi back-illuminated CCDs.
Andy Hollis -     proposals for bright asteroidal photometry via MX5 CCD coupled to135mm camera lens and lo-tech drive.
Richard Miles - photo-electric photometry using three telescopes [C14/ Meade 20cm SCT/ 10cm Maksotov] on the same target.
Bob Marriott -   reminisced over a recent Northampton Convention attended by American and Russian astronauts/cosmonauts.