{"id":32806,"date":"2025-10-15T23:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/?p=32806"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:08:15","slug":"november-11-2025-education-and-training-in-personastrophotography-for-photographers-with-george-hogeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/november-11-2025-education-and-training-in-personastrophotography-for-photographers-with-george-hogeman\/","title":{"rendered":"November 11, 2025:  Education and Training (In Person) &#8211;  Astrophotography for Photographers with George Hogeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hogeman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hogeman-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32799\" style=\"width:222px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>George Hogeman has been interested in astronomy longer than he has been a photographer. One of his early jobs included teaching astronomy and running a small planetarium at a Connecticut boarding school.&nbsp;He enjoys tracing the constellations, tracking the planets and identifying deep space objects.&nbsp; He also doesn\u2019t forget observing the Moon and Sun.&nbsp;He now volunteers in the Astronomy Education Department at the National Air &amp; Space Museum and shares his small telescope with dozens of families who attend the monthly star gazing events at Udvar-Hazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Description<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Stellarium-planets-line.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Stellarium-planets-line-1024x678.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32800\" style=\"width:784px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Stellarium-planets-line-1024x678.png 1024w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Stellarium-planets-line-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Stellarium-planets-line-768x509.png 768w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Stellarium-planets-line.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In this presentation, George will share some of his photographs and demonstrate the open-source program \u201cStellarium\u201d which is an easy way to see what there is to see on a given night. He will also bring in his SeeStar S50 which is a $549 combined telescope and camera which can capture remarkable images of the Moon, the Sun and distant galaxies even from our local rather light-polluted skies.&nbsp;George is also a member of the Northern Virginia Astronomy Club (NOVAC) and can share details of the dark sky observing sites that club membership enables.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He looks forward to a rich discussion about astrophotography with NVPS members!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/A7220350-Min-Horizon-Noise.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"32804\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/A7220350-Min-Horizon-Noise-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/A7220350-Min-Horizon-Noise-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/A7220350-Min-Horizon-Noise-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/A7220350-Min-Horizon-Noise-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/A7220350-Min-Horizon-Noise.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/G3140248-Enhanced-NR.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"32802\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/G3140248-Enhanced-NR-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/G3140248-Enhanced-NR-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/G3140248-Enhanced-NR-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/G3140248-Enhanced-NR-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/G3140248-Enhanced-NR.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shared2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"32801\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shared2-576x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shared2-576x1024.jpeg 576w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shared2-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shared2.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All photos taken by George Hogeman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bio George Hogeman has been interested in astronomy longer than he has been a photographer. 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