Tag: Member Images
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NOVAC Member Sketches
Sketching the view seen through a telescope eyepiece has a long history going back to the earliest use of telescopes to observe the heavens, most famously with the sketches and notes taken by Galileo beginning around 1609. Sketching while observing is still popular despite the common use of cameras and cell phones to capture the scene in the eyepiece. Drawing has the effect of making one really look at the object, you can try this with any common scene around you: sketch a tree leaf, cats Read more […] -
NOVAC imager Juan Marin Otero captures Abell 71 region in Cygnus
This region is in a very well known area of the sky, but its neighbors draw more attention from astrophotographers. Close to Deneb, at the opposite side of the North America and Pelican nebulae, lies this emission nebula complex. The whole region is quite strong in Ha, and very faint in SII and OIII. There is quite a bit going on in this image, the framing was chosen this way on purpose to try and capture the three following objects in one scene: Sh2-115 at the center of the image is Read more […] -
NOVAC eclipse chaser Lloyd Franklin captured this stunning image of the Ring of Fire eclipse on 10 June!
Lloyd Franklin captured a portion of the Annular Solar Eclipse (commonly known as a “Ring of Fire”), on 10 June 2021. The path of annularity only traversed parts of Canada, Greenland, and Northern Russia, and wasn’t easy to get to, but with some research Lloyd found one of the most interesting locations to view the partial eclipse. Long Branch, New Jersey offered the opportunity to view the Sun rising from the Atlantic Ocean with “devil horns” due to being ~80% eclipsed Read more […]