STARFEST 1999 Speakers
Glenn LeDrew (Perfect Polar Alignment) is an accomplished astrophotographer who has travelled to the ends of the world to observe and photograph deep sky wonders. He lives in Ottawa, where he runs an astronomical business called The Starry Room featuring a Starlab planetarium and utilizing his own unique all-sky photographic projector. He travels throughout the province giving planetarium shows to schools and special interest groups (for booking information contact: ).
Glenn will speak on the intricacies of telescope polar alignment, discuss why it is important, and how to detect the symptoms of poor alignment. The various methods of polar alignment discussed will include internal alignment bore scopes, the star drift method, and other means.
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