Wade Williamson of Calgary, Alberta, took this backyard photo on February 19, showing an auroral display easily shining through the glow of city lights. The image is a 20-second exposure at ISO 400 using a tripod-mounted Canon EOS Rebel T3i DSLR camera with a standard 18-55mm lens.
Jeff Dutton won the RASC Robotic Telescope editing contest for October 2020, with his ghoulish edit of the Bat Nebula.
Awarded the prize for ingenuity for the week of August 21, 2020, Damien Lemay won for his images of spectra of Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE).
Ian Barredo’s composition of the Helix Nebula has won the September 2020 edition of the RASC Robotic Telescope editing contest
In celebration of Halloween, this month’s RASC RTScope editing contest target is NGC 6995 — the Bat Nebula, in the Eastern Veil Nebula.
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