Photos – RASC NB

Photos of the Month – April 2019

April 1, 2019
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[Featured image above by James Cleland – see panoramic version below]

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James Cleland - Northern Lights
Northern lights panorama taken near Riviere Verte, NB in November 2017

James Cleland - Milky Way
Milky Way panorama taken in New Mexico

Richard Haché - M67
M67, the King Cobra cluster in constellation Cancer

Richard Haché - NGC2903
Spiral galaxy NGC2903 in constellation Leo

Richard Haché - Leo Triplet
Galaxies M65, M66, and NGC3628 in constellation Leo

François Thérault - 12-panel mosaic of the Moon
Taken around 3/4 moon phase with a Canon 40d and C11. Best 12 shots out of 167 assembled in Photoshop.

James Stewart - Nightscape
Nightscape taken from front porch, featuring Orion and Taurus

Paul Owen - The Sun in H-alpha
Prominences are visible along the periphery of the Sun

Paul Owen - M81 & M82
Bode's Galaxy and the Cigar Galaxy in constellation Ursa Major

Roger Pitre - Aurora
35mm ASA 800 using a 50mm lens. 15 second exposure. Circa March 2002.

Emile Cormier - M44 Sketch
Beehive Cluster in Cancer. Graphite on white paper, reversed during scan.

Emile Cormier - M45 Sketch
Pleiades Cluster in Taurus. Graphite on white paper, reversed during scan.

Emile Cormier - Markarian's Chain
Markarian's Chain in Virgo. Graphite on white paper, reversed during scan.

François’ complete astrophotography gallery is available on his Astrobin page.

The deadline for members submitting their photos for the May issue of this blog is April 29th.

If you are a RASC-NB member, and have not received instructions via email about how to submit your photos, please contact the webmaster here (choose Concerning: Website).

Photos of the Month – March 2019

[Featured image above by Stephen Townsend]

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Stephen Townsend - M1 - Crab Nebula
The Crab Nebula in Constellation Taurus. Narrowband SII/Ha/OIII image.

Stephen Townsend - IC434 - Horsehead Nebula
Horsehead Nebula in constellation Orion. Narrowband Ha/OIII/SII palette.

Richard Haché - M101 Pinwheel Galaxy
Pinwheel Galaxy in Ursa Major

Roger Pitre - M45 - Pleiades Cluster
20 minute total exposure through a Televue Genesis SDF, with a Canon 50D

Roger Pitre - IC410 - Tadpoles Nebula
Shot through HA, OIII, SII filters, using an SBIG CCD camera and a 70mm telescope at f/4.8.

François Thériault - M42
The Great Orion Nebula

François Thériault - IC443
Jellyfish Nebula in Gemini

François Thériault - M101
M101 Pinwheel Galaxy in Ursa Major

James Cleland - Nightscape
Nightscape featuring the constellations Canis Major, Orion, and Taurus

Emile Cormier - Melotte 20 - Alpha Persei Cluster
Single 4-minute exposure through 80mm f/6 refractor

Emile Cormier - M97 - Owl Nebula
Graphite sketch of the Owl Nebula in Ursa Major. Scanned in reverse color.

Emile Cormier - Leo Triplet
Graphite sketch of M65, M66, and NGC 3628 galaxies in constellation Leo. Scanned in reverse color.

François’ complete astrophotography gallery is available on his Astrobin page.

The deadline for members submitting their photos for the April issue of this blog is March 30th.

If you are a RASC-NB member, and have not received instructions via email about how to submit your photos, please contact the webmaster here (choose Concerning: Website).

Photos of the Month – February 2019

[Featured image above by Astena Marsh]

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James Cleland - Nightscape featuring the Moon

James Cleland - Sun Dog
A sun dog is an optical phenomenon caused by the refraction of sunlight by ice crystals in the atmosphere.

Roger Pitre - M42 - Great Orion Nebula
Mix of 3-second to 5-minute exposures, through the same 70mm telescope, using LRGB filters.

Roger Pitre - Orion Molecular Cloud
Canon 50D, through a lens, at 200mm f/4. 15X4 min exposures.

Roger Pitre - M35 & NGC2158
36 min exposure, calibrated with darks/flat. Taken with a Canon Rebel Xsi through an Intes-Micro MN65 Maksutov Newtonian.

François Thériault - IC444 Jellyfish Nebula in Gemini
13xHa, 12xOIII, 12xSII @ 300". Full res and tech details at https://www.astrobin.com/384448/

François Thériault - NGC2244 Rosette Nebula in Monoceros
14xHa, 12xOIII, 12xSII @ 300". Full res and tech details at https://www.astrobin.com/385179/

François Thériault - NGC2244 Horsehead and Flame Nebulas in Orion, from February 2016
François has a story behind this image. See story below the photo gallery.

Emile Cormier - M1 Crab Nebula
Sketch on white paper with black graphite. Inverted color scan.

Emile Cormier - M37 Open Cluster in Auriga
Sketch on white paper with black graphite. Inverted color scan.

Emile Cormier - M81 & M82 Galaxies in Ursa Major
Sketch on white paper with black graphite. Inverted color scan.

Astena Marsh - The Moon
The moon taken through a camera, by a youth member who recently joined RASC.

François has this story to share for his Horsehead nebula photo:

This is a Swedish – Canadian collaboration.

A fellow astronomer in Sweden contacted me wanting to cooperate on an image we both had targeted. I had added some Ha data in my data set that I had taken with a 8 inch newtonian.
Göran noted that my Ha data would complement his image nicely by adding contrast and luminance to the one shot colour data set he had captured of the horsehead. He was absolutely right!
While I cannot take credit for the processing or the colour image, I am thrilled with the resulting image.

Göran’s data was collected by an ES 127ED apo refractor with a TS 0.79 reducer giving at FL 750mm and a Canon 60Da (10 x 300″ at ISO 1600) His observatory is in Varmland, Sweden.
My data was collected by an Antares 200mm Newtonian (FL 1000 mm) and a SBIG ST8300M (Baader Ha filter, 11 x 300″) from my observatory in Moncton.

To this day, I still cooperate with Goran, sharing my imaging data with him for his processing. I am also cooperating with a fellow astronomer in Brazil since December 2018.

Hope you enjoy. The original full size image is found at https://www.astrobin.com/236913/

François’ complete astrophotography gallery is available on his Astrobin page.

The deadline for members submitting their photos for the March issue of this blog is February 27th.

If you are a RASC-NB member, and have not received instructions via email about how to submit your photos, please contact the webmaster here (choose Concerning: Website).

Photos of the Month – January 2019

This is our first Photos of the Month blog post. We hope to make this a regular monthly thing, but we’ll need to keep receiving photo submissions from our members to keep this going.

All images are copyright of their respective authors. You may not use or redistribute these images without their permission.

François’ complete astrophotography gallery is available on his Astrobin page.

The deadline for members submitting their photos for the February issue of this blog is January 31st.

If you are a RASC-NB member, and have not received instructions via email about how to submit your photos, please contact the webmaster here (choose Concerning: Website).