Events
Astrophotography Deep Dive
Dates: Feb 2023 - Zoom call and chat group.
Activity: Meet and greet with new members in LightBenders club. Deep dive open discussion into aspects of astrophotography involving - camera types, scope alignment, autoguiding, focusing, filtering noise, stacking and post processing.
Dates: May 2022 - DIY Workshps and Zoom call.
Activity: Worshops on DIY observatory and general understanding of life cycle of stars, in collaboration Mr. Umesh Newse and Mrs Chetana Kad for over 38 High Schools in Pune.
Dates: Nov26 2021 - Zoom call.
Activity: Presentation on Lunar eclipses in collaboration Mr. Umesh Newse for 38 High Schools in Pune.
Dates: Summer 2021
Activity: In the coming few weeks of Summer Anand Sharangpani and LightBenders is offering two programs - Opensky watch on Weekends Friday or Saturday Nights through Summer depending on weather and Observatory Loaner - Training and operating the Starblast telescope with weekend loaner for registered members. The video below has more details.
We are meeting Saturday June 19 night in his driveway 9:30PM onwards. Any of youth or LightBenders interested ping me and I can give you the address.
Dates: April - June 2021
Activity: Light Benders DIY Observatory Project putting together basic toolkit and experiments for amateur and hobby astronomers. Participants will get a chance to setup their own observatory and learn the use the tools to make observations to analyze results to publish their findings. Registration open.
Date released: Jan 8 2020
Activity: 2020 Editorial newsletter
Dark Sky Park visit - Member visits to DSP
Date: June 18-20 2020
Activity: Dark sky park night watch and astrophotography portraits
Location: Headlands International Dark Sky Park, MI
Virtual Open Houses - Live activity online
Date: Through out 2020
Activity: Live viewing and astrophotography via Zoom Calls
Location: Zoom call
Date: June 13th 2020
Activity: Zoom session exploring secrets of our Solar system and the universe
Location: Zoom meeting
Date: July 3rd 2020
Activity: Zoom session unveiling the shadows of the eclipse
Location: Zoom meeting
Date released: Feb 25 2020
Activity: 2019 Editorial newsletter
Activity: Live pics, online articles, posts tracking
Location: NASA, Earth&Sky, NatGeo & other online resources
Time: Nov 11
Activity: Live telecast due to cloudy skies in MI
Location: EarthSky, NASA, Slooh, Youtube
Tracking Chandrayaan 2, Vikram telecast, Sept 2019
Time: September 6th entire day
Activity: Following activity as a group remotely
Location: Lightbenders WA group
Telescope tuning - June 2019
Time: 6-9PM
Activity: Telescope focusing methods and tuning
Location: Mandhare's Novi, MI
Jupiter brightest approach - June 2019
Time: 9PM onwards
Activity: Planet and Star watch
Location: Chavarkar's, Ypsilanti
June 9 2019 Cosmic Connection 2018
Activity: LightBenders Annual News letter
May 20 2019 Dr. Tyson Fox theater
Time: 7:30PM
Location: Fox Theater
Activity: Talk - Astrophysicist goes to the movies
January 20 2019 Board meeting
Time: 7PM
Location: Online
Activities: 2019 activity planning
2019 structure & events
Spring skymap
Blood moon
Leadership overview & responsibilities
Time: 3PM-6PM
Location: Online
Activities: Last group get together of 2018
2018 year time lapse view.
Plans for 2019.
Short talk on Kepler mission.
Planet hunting exercise.
Afterglow snacks.
Time: 2PM - 4PM
Location: 1200 Oakwood St., EMU Mark Jefferson Complex
Activities:
Meet and greet with Tom Kasper, Dept of Physics & Astronomy
Seasonal sky
Back to the moon for good
August 31 2018 Open House
Time: 10:00 PM - Midnight
Location: 4337 Silverleaf Dr, Ypsilanti, MI - 48197
Activities:
First and second generation planets in our solar system
Skymap for the night, moon and 4 planets line-up (Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus)
Solar System Object (SSO) and Deep Sky Object (DSO) viewing
July 28 2018 Open House
Time: 8:30 PM - Midnight
Location: Addison Oaks Camping ground - 1480 West Romeo Road, Leonard MI 48367
Activities:
Reflection and refraction telescopes and how they work
Dark sky photography - exposure, aperture and ISO settings on DSLR's
Skymap for the night, moon and 4 planets line-up (Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus)
Solar System Object (SSO) and Deep Sky Object (DSO) viewing
June 9 2018 Open House
Time: 8:30 PM - Midnight
Location: Sharangpani Residence - 8223 Ann Arbor Road W, Plymouth, MI - 48170
Activities:
Talk by club members
Club Activities info
Skymap for the night
Solar System Object (SSO) and Deep Sky Object (DSO) viewing
May 2018 Open House
Date: May 26 2018
Time: 8PM - Midnight
Location: 4337 Silverleaf Dr, Ypsilanti - MI, 48197
Activities:
Intro of club history and founding members
Club Activities info
Litecast Subscription for upcoming events
Skymap for the night
Solar System Object (SSO) and Deep Sky Object (DSO) viewing