Featured Photograph
North America Nebula (NGC 7000)
© 2022 Klaus Brasch
Who doesn’t love the North America Nebula (NGC 7000)? On really dark, transparent nights you can actually spot it by naked eye close to Deneb in Cygnus. What we tend to forget is that this enormous start forming complex, about 1,700 LY from us, also includes the Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) and additional extended nebulosity and dark dust lanes.
This image, taken with a TMB-92 f/5.5 refractor and modified Canon 6D and IDAS LPS-V4 filter, covers about 90% of the brightest portions of this complex. This mosaic was composed from 8 x 2–3-minute frames shot at ISO 3200. Images were stacked in Affinity Photo and then processed in Photoshop CS6.
Klaus Brasch
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Upcoming Events for the Year
CAS 2023 Calendar
CAS is producing a new club calendar for CY2023 and I need your photographic inputs to complete it. Subject matter is open to atmospheric phenomena, astronomical field trips, star parties, events, equipment owned or upgraded, deep sky and LPI. Please send submissions to me at edmonds03@msn.com. Photos should be taken within this calendar year or since November last year.
Richard Edmonds
Activities for August 2022
Monthly Meeting for August
Saturday, August 13, 2022
Dr. Lisa Prato
Title: “Exoplanets”
Dr. Prato held two post-doctoral fellowships at the University of California, Los Angeles, before moving to Lowell Observatory in 2004 where she studies Stellar Astronomy and Exoplanets.
CAS Monthly Meetings and Astronomical Programs are held the
Saturday closest to the Full Moon at the Mars Hill Campus of
Lowell Observatory, Hendricks Center for Planetary Studies
Auditorium (6:45 pm - 8:00 pm., unless otherwise noted) followed
by refreshments, and informal discussion. Meetings are open and free
to the public.
