Starfront Observatories – All About Remote Observing

The PAS is delighted to welcome Bray Falls of Starfront Observatories, an amazing and novel remote telescope observatory based in Texas. Join us!

Topic
This talk will cover everything you need to know to feel comfortable with remote imaging, whether it is from your bedroom to your back yard, or all the way at Starfront Observatories!

Located in Rockwood, Texas, in a Class 1 Bortle-scale dark site, the Starfront facility offers 11 climate-controlled buildings with retractable roofs to house, manage, and optimize telescopes for remote users. Its mission is to make deep-sky astrophotography accessible by providing affordable, high-quality, remote, dark-sky access to users anywhere.

Our Speaker
Bray Falls is a prominent astrophotographer, aerospace engineering student, and co-founder of Starfront Observatories in rural Texas, which offers remote, high-quality, dark-sky access for imaging the cosmos. He transformed a passion for astronomy, which began with taking cell phone photos through a telescope, into a professional endeavor that has discovered nebulas and developed a massive, 550+ telescope remote hosting site. He specializes in surveying for new nebulae and making dark skies more accessible to amateur astronomers. Bray Falls grew up in Pheonix, Arizona, where he developed a
passion for astronomy at age 14.

Meeting Logistics
This is a hybrid meeting hosted at the Los Altos Library in Los Altos, California, and our speaker will be remote. Join us in person at the library, or over Zoom.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89086677112?pwd=7YSrtrusTOu6dSd3fv6lpat6BC4kWZ.1

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