This page holds the 2021 audio-video files for our digital Seminars,
starting with the inaugural session in February 2021. Files for later years
are HERE.
Each Seminar has two files, named with the issue date (yymmdd), ending
with 'a' or 'v'. 'a' is the audio file; 'v', video. For a made-up
example, the files for our inaugural Seminar of 2005 March 17 are
'050317a.mp3' and '050317v.ppt'.
Download the files to your computer for playing. Playing them
directly from the web can cause chatter,skips, freeze. Storing the files
locally also allows you to play them away from the net and frees them
for others to download. You may play the files at any time, not
just on the issue date.
Set up the video file for its first picture and then start
playing the audio file . The audio file prompts you
to scroll to the next picture in the video file. The
pictures are numbered for reference during the Seminar and
for questions or comments afterwards.
While there is n o live interaction with the sessions, you can
put questions and comments to me thru the NYSkies email group at
nyskies@groups.io
To subscribe to the group, send an empty email (any text in it,
including the subject, is ignored) to
nyskies+subscribe@groups.io
The group is a general discussion forum for home astronomy, and
not only for handling Seminar inquiries. Please put your notices and
astronomy-related notices, news, questions there.
The files for the current and previous two Seminars are in this
page below. Older ones are moved to offline storage. Be sure to keep
those you want to play again in the future.
---- Files for later years are HERE.
Files for later years are HERE.
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210219a.mp3 210219v.ppt FEATURES OF STAR ATLASES [inaugural digital session]
210305a.mp3 210305v.ppt FIRST CRESCENT OF A NEW MONTHpt
210319a.mp3 210319v.ppt SPRINGTIME AMONG THE STARS
210402a.mp3 210402v.ppt THE OMEGA CENTAURI CHALLENGE
210416a.mp3 210416v.ppt THE MILKY WAY AND DEEPSKY OBSERVING
210507a.mp3 210507v.ppt THE SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 2021 JUNE 10
210521a.mp3 210521v.ppt MANHATTANHENGE
210604a.mp3 2100604v.ppt BINARY STARS
210618a. no3 210618v.ppt SUMMER STARS OVER NEW YORK
210702a. no3 210702v.ppt SKY OREINTATION
210716a. no3 210716v.ppt PERSEID METEOR SHOWER
210806a. no3 210806v.ppt VENUS IN 2021
2108203a. no3 210820v.ppt SATURN IN 2021
210903a. no3 210903v.ppt JUPITER IN 2021
210917a.no3 210917v.ppt COOL CALM STARS OF SUTUMN
211001a.mp3 211001v.ppt OBSERVING THE NORTHERN LIGHTS
211015a.mp3 211015v.ppt CAUSES OF CELESTIAL SPECTRA
211105a.mp3 211105v.ppt LUNAR ECLIPSE OF 2021 NOVEMBER 19
211119a.mp3 211119v.ppt THE DOPPLER EFFECT
211203a.mp3 211203v.ppt COMET 2021-A1 (LEONARD_
211217a.mp3 211217v.ppt YEAREND GREETINGS FROM THE STARS
Files for later years are HERE.