TXMOST is having Earth Day celebrations on the 23rd, and they wish to celebrate the sciences by including AAS! We would become part of a new exhibit called In Your Own Backyard: Images from the Austin Astronomical Society.

The storyline for visitors is to see the incredible sights ‘in your own backyard,’ simply by looking up. AAS images are our own, created from our own interest, eyes, knowledge, skill, and tools. By stepping outside and looking up, visitors can see the things that we see any night of the year. In short, the TXMOST visitors can be just like us – in fact, they ARE us.  The exhibit would be on display for a year on the TXMOST gallery walls, complete with a wall caption beside it, giving the specifics on the image, how it was captured, and any short comment from you, the photographer. 

All of the work to coordinate the exhibit for this will be handled by TXMOST and the AAS Communications Chair & Webmaster – we’d like to keep this as simple as possible as its our first exhibit with TXMOST, and easy for you to participate. So here’s the relevant information…

Technical Specifications

• Images are digital files only, printed on TXMOST’s in house large format printer, and beautifully framed by TXMOST for display
• Please send the highest res images you can provide
• Photographers will be given full credit on display near the images
• The images will be shown in their gallery for a year, after which they will be returned, gifted with the framing, to the photographer!
• A waiver is required, and any digital image will be deleted by TXMOST once printed, so that the only images are the printed & framed exhibits
• Exhibit spots range from 8″ x 10″ , 11″ x 17″ to a couple 2’ x 3’ spots 
• They’re looking for approximately 20 images, and astrophotographers can submit more than one, though we’d like to take at least one from each person who wants to participate
• The virtual version of the gallery will be on the AAS site too
• We’ll need to have images in by the 12th or so, so they can be framed

Joining the Exhibit

• Send an e-mail to Communications with your interest. We’ll send the waiver to you asap!
• Please return the signed waiver, with your selected image(s), and the metadata and text for the wall caption (you’ll want to include your name, title/subject, date/time, location, any relevant image metadata [shutter speed, ISO, aperture, focal length, hardware, any processing])
• Short artist’s statement about your image, you and your love of AP, how you got started – anything that allows folks understand what you do or how you (or they can) got started in your backyard. 🙂

Banners for the Earth Day Event and our own banners highlighting AAS will be in rotation on both TXMOST and AAS websites to encourage folks to go to the event and to experience the AAS exhibit!

Any questions or ready to submit? Please contact the Communications team asap!