Happy Canada Day everyone!
On June 8, Ottawa astrophotographer Joe Bonner captured the full Moon rising over the Parliament buildings in our nation’s capital. He used a Canon EOS 6D DSLR camera and Canon 75-300mm zoom lens (set to 240mm and f/6.3) for this 1/320 second exposure at ISO 800.
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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