Here are the Observer's Challenges for Jul7 2018.

 

Beginner Challenge	Intermediate Challenge	Advanced Challenge	Lunar Challenge
Albireo (β Cygni)	Trifid Nebula M20	The Elephants Trunk Nebula IC 1396A	Gassendi crater

 

I'd love to see more submissions into both the meeting and AstroNotes with observation reports for the challenges -- the reports need not be photographs, they can be sketches, field notes, etc. Be sure to send them to me for inclusion in the August meeting at meetingchair[at]ottawa.rasc.ca

 

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Here are the challenge objects Oscar Echeverri posed at the April 6 meeting:

Beginner Challenge	Intermediate Challenge	Advanced Challenge:	Lunar Challenge:
Messier 81	Hickson Compact Galaxy Group 44	NGC 4284	Messier and Messier A craters.

Oscar also pleaded that "I'd like to see more people submit reports than did this past month -- I encourage everyone to participate, not just imagers! You can submit reports by way of images, sketches, or even without any imagery, you can come up and give a verbal report that perhaps includes the conditions you made your observations under, and the details of the equipment you used -- and of course a description of the object as you observed it!"

And perhaps next month we'll post members' photos, sketches and whatnot.

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