You may have seen it being advertised here on IIS, but our local astro club, Macarthur Astronomical Society, is hosting a week-long event at our local art gallery in Campbelltown NSW. The Campbelltown Arts Centre is hosting our once-off event we've simply called "m a g n i t u d e". It's comprised of a visual printed display of mounted astrophotography by our members as well as 44 original JPL photographs of the Voyager II mission past Neptune.
In addition to this, all manner of members imaging and visual telescopes will be on-hand to entertain and delight the public. It culminates in a talk on the last Saturday (9th Oct) by Dave Reneke at 4:40pm and then Dr. David Malin at 7:00. This will be held in a brilliant audiovisual facility with great sound and graphics.
We hope the public will come along, and judging by the quality and size of the outside display at night facing traffic through the centre of Campbelltown, we assume plenty will
The whole event is designed to excite the south western Sydney public, and to gain a little sympathy to our light pollution problems here in the south west.
I've been involved in colour photography and print nearly my whole working life, but never before this have I had to prepare colour images for presentation on a building.
Selection of photos from this evening - showing the Campbelltown Arts Center - a beautiful building in its own right, and several of the members images. You may notice Humayun's Rho, Pleiades and B33, my moon and Debbie Taylor's Cat's Paw. Wow - this wall is 6 or 7 meters high and 12 long. It's very, very impressive in real life. This light show is on every night from dusk to 10:00pm until the 9th of October.
See posts #5 & #25 for more photos of the outside as well as the interior of the exhibition as it was set up.
Also see the
YouTube time lapse of the main image wall as it was set up by the gallery staff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXBmSh0Sspg