Here are the Observer's Challenges for June 2018.

 

Beginner Challenge	Intermediate Challenge	Advanced Challenge	Lunar Challenge
Lagoon Nebula Messier 8	The Cats Eye Nebula NGC 6543	Seyfert's Sextet  (HCG 79)	Schroters Valley

 

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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