[Atmob-announce] Sunday talk on the history of astrophotography

[Eileen Myers]

On Sunday, January 6th at Waltham High School , the guest speaker for 
the Photographic Historical Society of New England will be Dr. George 
Champine, a member of that club and a volunteer working on the 
Digital Access to a sky Century (DASCH), the project at the 
Harvard-Smithsonian which is digitizing the glass plate collection. 
Included in the glass plates are daguerreotypes dating from 1849, wet 
collodion plate images primarily from the 1870's and early 
stereoscopic and spectral plates. Dr. George Champine is a volunteer 
working on the project, is a physicist and computer scientist now 
retired, and "should be the perfect guide for a tour of the history 
of astrophotography and its transition from analog to digital." The 
meeting starts at 1:30 p.m.  and is open to the public. For more 
information on the DASCH project, read The New York Times article at 
http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/plates/publications/GJ1NYT.pdf See 
www.phsne.net/forum for more information about the club.

Directions: Waltham High School is at 617 Lexington St., Waltham, MA 
The high school is at the top of the hill, behind other school 
buildings. From Boston/Cambridge: Take Rte. 2 west to exit 54B, then 
Lexington St. south 1.7 miles to school complex on the left. From 
Lincoln and West: Take Rte 2 east to exit 53, Concord Ave. Go east 1 
mile, then right onto Lexington St. and 1.3 miles south to school 
complex on the left.

Posted by Eileen Myers (I met a member of this club who invited us to attend) 
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