Donation Recipients

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

Going through all the Astro crap .. I mean gear.. I have acquired and to my embarrassment not used over the years and I found a Nightscape 8300 CCD Camera I purchased on IIS. Rather than selling this I am toying with the idea of donating this camera to an Astronomy Club that has a Astrophotography program for Junior members. Anyone know of clubs that have this type of program. Still deciding if this is the best course.

[xelasnave]

Hans that is a wonderful thing to do.
I can not suggest where it should go but maybe a school that has something going already.
I think the main thing to consider would be making yourself available to set it up and give some instruction as I suspect if you just donate it the risk must be that it will just sit in a draw.
Anyways nice thinking.
Alex

[bojan]

Donating is firmly in my plans as well.. when I am ready for scaling down my pile of "junk". Recipient(s) is/are still not decided..

[JA]

Originally Posted by Hans Tucker

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I am toying with the idea of donating this camera to an Astronomy Club that has a Astrophotography program for Junior members. Anyone know of clubs that have this type of program. Still deciding if this is the best course.

That's a wonderful idea Hans.

Another possibility may be to donate it to someone who does regular, perhaps volunteer, astronomy outreach programs for schools or other community groups.

Best
JA