Texas Imaging Symposium
Next Step 2014 – Our 2nd Year
Feedback from 2013 TIS:
Surveys of TIS attendees:
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2013 TSP attendee Survey results (33% of 502 attendees responding):
Astro-Imaging (163 responded):
34 Not Interested 21%
23 Have never done it: not likely 14%
16 Have never done it: show me how! 10%
37 Have taken some images:
just learning (beginner) 23%
32 Have taken images with
useful results (intermediate) 20%
21 Have taken lots of images (expert) 13%
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18 Attended TIS (38 actual) 11%
1 Novice 5%
5 Beginner 28%
8 Intermediate 44%
4 Expert 22%
Future TIS:
7 Where Do I Sign Up? 39%
6 Strong Interest 33%
3 Some Interest 17%
2 No Interest 11%
Housing:
Bunkhouse 44%
Camping 16%
RV 17%
Motel 11%
Offsite 11%
Age:
26-39 5%
40-55 22%
56-64 56%
65+ 17%
Quality:
Fair/Good 33%
Excellent 50%
N/A 17%
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Interested in future TIS (165 responded):
67 Not Interested 41%
73 Some Interest 44%
16 Strong Interest 10%
8 Where to Sign Up? 5%
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Imaging Interested 65% (326 of 502) 106 known
Have taken lots of images (expert) 20% (65 of 326)
Have taken images with useful results (intermediate) 30% (98 of 326)
Have taken some images: just learning (beginner) 35% (114 of 326)
Have never done it: show me how! 15% (49 of 326)
Have never done it: not likely or not interested 0% (0 of 326)
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Courses Interested in:
Image Processing 53
Beginners Introduction
to Imaging 46
Stacking 35
Guiding/Tracking 33
Frames: bias,dark,flat 29
Color balance 22
Image masking 22
Controlling noise 21
Organizing your session:
Your process! 21
Focus techniques: afocal,
piggyback, etc 20
Hands-On Image Acquisition 20
Histograms and Binning 19
Polar alignment 19
Periodic error correction 18
Hydrogen alpha, narrow band 17
Image over/under sampling 15
Mounts: stability, flexure,
tracking on both axis,
field rotation 14
Image field: flatness,
curvature, astigmatism,
color aberrations 13
Solar 8
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Discussion about 2013:
A Teleconference in September 2013 including all presenters
What did we do right?
What did we do wrong, or could improve?
Suggestions for 2014 courses
Plans for 2014:
- Co-sponsored by Three Rivers Foundation (3RF)
- Jeff Barton, TIS project leader
- Located in Lodge Building
- Classes Monday-Friday
- Some night-time classes
- Demos & nighttime classes behind the Lodge building
- ….