FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 19, 2008
CONTACT: Michael Covington
706/207-4262
mc@uga.edu
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"Moon, Stars and Galaxies" now on display at the Georgia Center
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Athens, GA - (Feb. 19, 2008) - A pictorial exhibit by astrophotographer Michael A. Covington, "Moon, Stars, and Galaxies," will be on display at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center & Hotel, March 3-27, 2008. The exhibit is free and open to the public in the Georgia Center's Hill Atrium, located at 1197 S. Lumpkin St.
The exhibit features dramatic pictures of star fields, nebulae and galaxies taken from Athens and surrounding rural areas. Covington uses a 35-mm camera or a digital SLR with a telephoto lens, riding "piggy-back" on top of a telescope that tracks the earth's rotation. Sometimes he takes pictures through the telescope itself. "What's important is light, not magnification," he explains. "By accumulating light for minutes or hours, the camera can see objects that are too dim for the human eye. Digital image processing helps bring out the beauty of the sky." Most of the pictures on display will be for sale.
Covington has been photographing the sky for nearly 40 years, has been internationally known for it since the 1980s, and is the author of Astrophotography for the Amateur, Digital SLR Astrophotography, How to Use a Computerized Telescope, and other books published by Cambridge University Press. By day, he is associate director of the University of Georgia's Artificial Intelligence Center and does research on computer processing of human languages. He was co-valedictorian of the University of Georgia in 1977, with a bachelor's degree in linguistics, and has postgraduate degrees from Cambridge and from Yale.
The Georgia Center is a unit of the University of Georgia's Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach. The Center provides innovative lifelong learning opportunities through its continuing education programs. On UGA's campus, the Georgia Center includes a full-service hotel with 200 rooms and suites, restaurants, ballroom, banquet areas, conference rooms, auditoriums, a fitness center, and a computer lab — all under one roof. For more information go to www.georgiacenter.uga.edu.
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