Stephen Barnes, Sky Optics ("Introduction to Astro-imaging", Small Tent, Saturday 3:30 p.m.) has been an amateur astronomer since childhood. He has turned his love of astronomy into a vocation and in 1996 opened Sky Optics, a retail telescope store in Burlington, Ontario.

Stephen will talk about techniques for taking images (and video) afocally through the telescope using digital cameras, web cameras and camcorders. He will cover methods of coupling the cameras, basic imaging techniques, tips, and software.