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M97 galaxy & M108 Owl Nebula - Dec 30, 2010

Using a 5-inch refractor and a QSI Camera allowed me to nicely frame this pair of objects. In this image the �eyes� of the Owl Nebula (M 97), a planetary nebula, are clearly visible. The barred spiral galaxy Messier 108 is to the northwest of M 97.

Charles Banville

M97 galaxy & M108 Owl Nebula

M78/NGC2068 - Dec 29, 2010

This reflection nebula is located in the constellation Orion. Image taken from the Victoria Centre Observatory using the TeleVue NP127 at f/5.2 at the QSI583C CCD imager.

Charles Banville

M78/NGC 2068 reflection nebula

Lunar Eclipse - Dec 20, 2010 - In conjunction with a public observing event, Victoria Centre members observed the total lunar eclipse from Cattle Point, starting at 10:32pm up until about midnight, when full cloud cover obscured the Moon. Others observed the event from home, and of course quite a few photos were taken while the weather allowed.

Just came in as the eclipse completed its final shift. We were so lucky to have been able to see a good part of it anyway last night and this morning. Thanks to everyone who came out to Cattle Point. Even though Sid had officially cancelled the event earlier on there were quite a few of our members that were there to talk to everyone and we had a tremendous crowd by 10:30. Cars lined each side of the parking lot. It was still very chilly and windy but some people in the public crowd stayed for several hours. Sid had his Dob out; John MacDonald was taking pictures and others were working the crowd. A Channel News came by as well.

We were able to see the first part of the eclipse very well but just as totality began the clouds rolled in. There weren't too many of us left by 12: 15 but Sid and I stuck around to see what would happen and we were able to see a sneak peak every now and then of the fully eclipsed moon. The winds were wicked and we finally packed it in at just about the time that totality ended. We could see no end of the clouds in sight. By the time I arrived back in Brentwood Bay, however, the moon was about half out but very misty and I watched as it slowly inched it's way back to its full moon status. The best thing was that there was hardly a breath of air out here in Brentwood Bay so much improved viewing weather over the windy Cattle Point site. You just never know what you're going to get here in Victoria.

I hope many of you were able to view the eclipse from various locations in the area.

Lauri Roche

About the same conditions here in Metchosin: mostly cloudy but with enough sucker holes to get some photography in. I'll post in Zenfolio after I get some sleep. Shortly after totality, the clouds rolled in for good and I didn't get to shoot the exit phases of the eclipse. At lease we got to see something!

Sherry Buttnor


Who would have guessed that we would see it? The conditions were horrible but so many people came out to see the event. I set up to photograph it without much hope of success but set the camera to take images every 4 minutes and some came out better than expected. Lunar Eclipse time lapse video

I also spent a lot of time showing visitors the view through image stabilized binoculars which really helped a great deal in the windy conditions. Lots of happy visitors and a good night for all. Thanks Sid and Lauri for getting us out.

John McDonald

In addition to John's 3 photos, I have also posted 10 images covering the first half of the eclipse. Needless to say, the images are soft due to all the cloud! I also have some video, so might create something from that later on.

Joe Carr

After Astronomy Caf� I made my way home and waited for the first signs of the eclipse. I wasn't that hopeful about photographic images but I did get my Pronto out and observed parts of the eclipse. I'd forgotten how different the Moon looks during an eclipse. The shadow that makes its way across the face definitely enhances the three dimensional quality of our earth satellite. The veil of cloud at times helped with the usual overbearing brightness. I took a couple of snapshots and a came up with this photo / illustration of the event just before totality. Totality for me was almost totally clouded over so that's how my evening ended. Non optimal observing conditions but all and all I enjoyed what I did get to see.

David Lee

Observing at the Plaskett - Dec 4, 2010

Finally....clear skies on a Plaskett night!!! Last evening saw a good turnout at the 1.8m Plaskett telescope at the DAO. Attendees were new member Dan, Lauri, John, David G, Dorothy and Miles, Chris and Gerry, and myself. David L, Brenda, and Sid also popped it to say hi and warm up from their work at the VCO.

Dan acquired an image set of Stephan's Quintet. Dorothy and Miles acquired images of a SNR (Cas A, I think).

On behalf of the RASC-Victoria Centre, I would like to extend our sincere thanks to the HIA for their generosity in offering us the Plaskett telescope for these sessions in 2010, and to Dave Balam for being our accommodating and knowledgeable T.O. I'm sure you will all agree we are very fortunate to have access to this historic telescope, and we appreciate it.

Sherry Buttnor

Time lapse video created by John McDonald of the scene outside the Plaskett as RASC members were imaging inside.
A star trail version generated from the same set of photos.

Jupiter at the VCO - Nov 10, 2010

Jupiter at the VCO using the Meade 14 SCT with 2x Powermate, Nikon D70s 1000 ISO 125th Second.

Malcolm Scrimger

Jupiter at the VCO - Nov 10, 2010
The ISS Over Gonzales Observatory - Nov 8, 2010

The International Space Station flies over the Gonzales Observatory in this 10-minute exposure.

The last two weeks has seen a number of ISS flybys as its orbit took it over North America in the evening. I managed to capture a few of those flybys; one from Royal Roads University and another from Gonzales Hill Regional Park.

Charles Banville

The ISS Over Gonzales Observatory
Southern Milky Way from New Zealand - Nov 1, 2010

This time lapse video was created from a sequence of photos taken from near Rotorua, New Zealand looking in a southerly direction at the Milky Way.  The nebula Eta Carina, alpha and beta Centauri, and the bottom star of the Southern Cross are visible above the ridge line of the nearby hills.  Joe Carr

HINT: Click on the little four segment icon beside "HD" in the lower right corner of the video window to view in high definition.

Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy from Lake Okareka, New Zealand - Nov 1, 2010

This photo of the LMC is taken at 70 mm focal length with a total exposure of 69 minutes shows the distorted shape and extended wispy structures quite well. It is about 14,000 light years across, 160,000 light years from us and roughly 1/10th the mass of the Milky Way about which it is orbiting.

John McDonald

Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy
Southern Milky Way from New Zealand - Oct 26, 2010

Cropped portion of Milky Way from Warkworth, New Zealand.  This image has labels to assist with the unusual orientation, however there is another image in the same gallery without labels.  Conditions were clear for an hour or so, 22�C, some light pollution from Auckland.  Tripod-mounted modified Canon T1i.

John McDonald

Southern Milky Way from New Zealand
Jupiter with GRS - Oct 16, 2010

I haven't done a formal sketch in a while and I'd barely call this one but for documentation purposes I forced myself to do this one quick and dirty. The seeing was mostly 3-4/5 but every once in awhile there were moments when it was perfect. I did this sketch over about 10 minutes using my f/5 317.5mm truss dob @ 158X using a 10mm Ethos.  

Bill Weir

Jupiter with GRS - Oct 16, 2010
Comet Hartley from Anza-Borrego State Park, California - Oct 13, 2010

While in San Diego I took the opportunity to visit California�s largest State Park, the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. The park is located between San Diego and Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California. That evening I waited for the Moon to set and aimed my telescope at Comet Hartley. A few days earlier the comet passed by the Double Cluster in Perseus. In this image the comet is surrounded by open clusters.

Charles Banville

Comet Hartley from Anza-Borrego State Park, California
Star trails from the California desert - Oct 13, 2010

While in San Diego I took the opportunity to visit California�s largest State Park, the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. The park is located between San Diego and Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California. This photo was taken from Culp Valley, within the park.

Charles Banville

Star trails from the California desert - Oct 13, 2010
Comet 103P Hartley 2 near the Double Cluster - Oct 8, 2010

I got up early this morning to get a glimpse of the comet. With very little time I wanted to get a snapshot as well so I grabbed a tripod and my D700 and pointed near the Double Cluster. This would indeed be a snapshot as there was no time for the more elaborate tracking gear with dawn approaching. For this type of image this is probably the shortest exposure I've used outside of lunar and solar imaging. ISO 3200 and 4 seconds at f/2 worked nicely for a quick shot.

David Lee

Comet 103P Hartley 2 near the Double Cluster - Oct 8, 2010
Large Magellanic Cloud & Tarantula Nebula - Sep 11, 2010

The Large Magellanic Cloud with the Tarantula Nebula, NGC 2070 in the constellations Dorado and Mensa.

My ship pulled into Valparaiso a week ago and the weather has been great. Michel Michaud and I drove 60 km north-east of Valparaiso to a Chilean National Park - Parque Nacional La Campana (S33.003� W71.127�). The site we selected for astrophotography was fairly dark and we got three clear nights out of four.

Charles Banville

Large Magellanic Cloud & Tarantula Nebula
Small Magellanic Cloud & 47 Tucanae - Sep 10, 2010

The Small Magellanic Cloud is one of the closest galaxies to our own Milky Way. Framed here with two large globular clusters; NGC 362 on the left and 47 Tucanae (NGC 104) on the right, both in the constellation Tucana.

My ship pulled into Valparaiso a week ago and the weather has been great. Michel Michaud and I drove 60 km north-east of Valparaiso to a Chilean National Park - Parque Nacional La Campana (S33.003� W71.127�). The site we selected for astrophotography was fairly dark and we got three clear nights out of four.

Charles Banville

Small Magellanic Cloud & 47 Tucanae
M31 the Great Galaxy in Andromeda - Aug 15, 2010

Way, way past dark-thirty at the 10th Annual RASCALS Star Party 2010 and I was getting pretty sleepy. But I couldn't resist taking a few shots at M31 just to see what would happen.

Sherry Buttnor

M31 the Great Galaxy in Andromeda

NGC7822 nebula in Cepheus - Aug 14, 2010

Pillars of gas, dust, and hot-burning young stars form the center of NGC 7822. A giant molecular cloud spreads across much of the constellation Cepheus. This nebula is on the northern edge of this glowing star forming region about 3,000 light-years away from us.

This photo was taken from the 10th Annual RASCALS Star Party 2010 held in Metchosin.

Joe Carr

NGC7822 nebula in Cepheus

M33 the Triangulum Galaxy - Aug 14, 2010

M33 from three sessions, one at the 7th Annual RASCALS Star Party 2007 at the Victoria Fish and Game site, one at the DAO in Victoria in 2007, and one at the 10th Annual RASCALS Star Party 2010 held in Metchosin.

John McDonald

M33 the Triangulum Galaxy

M8 and M20 Nebulae - Aug 14, 2010

This part of Sagitarius is very rich and colorful. M8, the Lagoon Nebula is the dominant feature, a glowing cloud of hydrogen gas lit by newly formed stars in the cluster NGC 6523. The Trifid nebula, M20 in the upper centre has striking blue and red emission regions with prominent dark lanes. This photo was taken from the 10th Annual RASCALS Star Party 2010 held in Metchosin.

John McDonald

M8 and M20 Nebulae

IC1318 Butterfly Nebula & Sadr - Aug 13, 2010

The area around Sadr (Gamma Cygni) features various nebulous regions which show in this photo as pink and red patches surrounding Sadr - the brightest star. This photo was taken from the 10th Annual RASCALS Star Party 2010 held in Metchosin.

Joe Carr

IC1318 Butterfly Nebula & Sadr

Planetary Trio from Hawaii - July 31, 2010

It has been mostly cloudy during my stay in Hawaii. One evening I drove to Leeward Oahu and observed bright Venus, Saturn, and Mars set over the Pacific Ocean.

Charles Banville

Planetary Trio from Hawaii

Big Dipper - Ursa Major - July 28, 2010

A view over the Royal Oak golf course and Ursa Major. I was trying to photograph an Iridium Flare but got the timing and location wrong. It's been too long since I have done some astrophotography.

Malcolm Scrimger

Solar prominence & plage in Ha - July 19, 2010 4:05pm PDT

As I observed the Sun this afternoon using my Lunt solar telescope, there were two prominent features visible: a moderate sized prominence and some huge areas of plage on the surface. I employed a High Dynamic Range technique to capture both features in one image.

Joe Carr

Solar prominence & plage in Ha - July 19, 2010 4:05pm PDT

North American to Veil Nebulae - July 17, 2010

The stretch of sky in Cygnus that reaches from the North American and Pelican to the Veil Nebulae is incredibly rich with glowing emission and dark nebulae as well as amazing star clouds. This is a deep exposure of the region with a 100 mm lens. Taken on a cool, clear night at Cattle Point.

John McDonald

North American to Veil Nebulae

Tail end of Cygnus wide field - July 17-18, 2010

This wide field photo of the tail end of Cygnus was taken from a church field in Central Saanich as a test for a potential dark site. Yard lights and heavy dew proved to be a challenge. The dew in particular meant I had to eliminate half the shots taken during the session. Despite these obstacles, the resultant photos turned out amazingly well.

This photo is the full frame from the original showing (L to R): NGC7000 region: North America Nebula, IC5070 Pelican Nebula. Sadr region: IC1311, IC1318, NGC6888 Crescent Nebula

Joe Carr

Tail end of Cygnus wide field

M20, The Trifid Nebula - July 16/17, 2010

Photo taken with an Orion SS Pro CCD on a very clear, cloudless night at LB Pearson College, Metchosin, BC using a AT8RC telescope on an EQ6 mount autoguided with an OAG camera and PHD.

Guy Walton

M20, The Trifid Nebula

M31, Andromeda Galaxy, M32, M110 - July 16, 2010

The vast Andromeda spiral galaxy is the largest member of our Local Group of galaxies. It has two small neigbouring galaxies, as well as some knots of star forming regions which appear as small blue coloured clouds in this photo. The dark lanes in Andromeda are quite distinct.

I used a Hutech-modified Canon T2i dSLR utilizing an IDAS UIBAR-III filter prime focus on the Victoria Centre Observatory's Tele Vue NP127is apo refractor on a Paramount ME.

Joe Carr

M31, Andromeda Galaxy, M32, M110

M16, Eagle Nebula in Hydrogen Alpha - July 6/7, 2010

Photo taken with an Orion SS Pro CCD at LB Pearson College, Metchosin, BC using a AT8RC telescope on an EQ6 mount autoguided with an OAG camera and PHD. Used an Astronomik 12 nm. Ha filter.

Guy Walton

M16, Eagle Nebula in Hydrogen Alpha

ISS passage over VCO - July 5, 2010

I have cobbled together a fisheye lens using an old supplementary lens that was made for a Canon Coolpix and attached it to a regular DSLR lens. The combination works quite well. I have put some images taken with it on my Zenfolio page.

  1. They start with an ISS pass image taken at the VCO last night.
  2. This is followed by an image from the CU that shows the Plaskett and surroundings as well as the sky.
  3. The third one is of a fairly dark sky at the VCO on Friday night.

John McDonald

ISS passage over VCO - July 5, 2010

M101 or NGC5457 - Pinwheel Galaxy - July 2, 2010

Taken at Victoria Centre Observatory using a Meade 14" SCT equipped with a Hyperstar operating at f/2, QSI 583c CCD camera.

John McDonald

M101 or NGC5457 is also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy

NGC 4725, NGC 4712 and NGC 4747 - June 12, 2010

After the CU closed, I captured an image of NGC 4725 Saturday evening at the VCO using the QSI-Hyperstar camera on our 14" SCT. NGC 4725 is an intermediate barred spiral galaxy about 40 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. Two other galaxies are also seen in this image, NGC 4712 to the left and NGC 4747 to the upper right.

John McDonald

NGC 4725, NGC 4747 and 4712

Comet C/2009 R1 McNaught - June 12, 2010

On Friday evening I went to Mount Tolmie in order to get a clear view of the north-east horizon. Comet McNaught rose just after 1:00 and I was able to get a few shots before twilight. Photo taken using a Borg 77EDII at f/4.3 on Takahashi EM-11 mount ; Hutech modified Canon EOS 5D Mark II.

Charles Banville

C/2009 R1 McNaught - June 12, 2010

M13 Hercules Cluster - May 8, 2010

The Great Globular in Hercules is one of the best known globular clusters in the northern sky.  Photo taken at the VCO using the TeleVue NP-127 at f/5.2, SBIG ST-2000XM & Paramount ME.

Charles Banville

M13 Hercules Cluster

New Moon, 27:35 hours old - May 14, 2010 21:40:47 PDT

I was able to image the very young new Moon at our VCO observing session using a SW Equinox 80 Apo Refractor and a Nikon D80. Thanks Bill for the tip.

Guy Walton

New Moon, 27:35 hours old

NGC 4632 Whale Galaxy and NGC 4656/57 Hockey Stick Galaxy - May 13, 2010

The Hockey Stick galaxy NGC 4656 and 57 is near the Whale galaxy, NGC
4632 and the distortion of both is likely from the interactions they have had with each other and with NGC 4627, the small galaxy near the Whale. Maybe the Whale is really an opposing hockey team and penalties are needed.

I have imaged this combination before but managed to get a lot more exposure for this one. Subsequent processing has added more colour and detail.

John McDonald

NGC 4632 Whale Galaxy and NGC 4656/57 Hockey Stick Galaxy

NGC�s 4438 and 4435, a.k.a. The Eyes, M86, and M84 - May 7, 2010

This photo was taken from Pearson College Observatory, and shows a section of Markarian�s Chain in the constellation: Virgo.

Optics: TeleVue NP-127 at f/5.2, SBIG ST-2000XM
Mount: Losmandy G-11

Charles Banville

A section of Markarian�s Chain featuring NGC�s 4438 and 4435, a.k.a. The Eyes, M86, and M84
Annotated image

NGC4565 Needle Galaxy - May 6/7, 2010

The Needle Galaxy is a magnificent edge-on spiral galaxy in the faint constellation Coma Berenices and is the largest edge-on galaxy visible in our skies. This color image reveals the galaxy's bulging central core dominated by light from a population of older, yellowish stars. The core is dramatically cut by obscuring dust lanes which lace its thin galactic plane. Smaller Galaxy NGC4562 is also visible in this field.

Photos taken at the Victoria Centre Observatory using the 14" Meade LX-200 SCT & Hyperstar f/2 optic; QSI 583c colour CCD camera.

Joe Carr

NGC4565 Needle Galaxy

M104 - Sombrero Galaxy - May 5, 2010

This photo was taken from Pearson College Observatory, and shows the Sombrero Galaxy with its distinctive dust lane in the constellation: Virgo.

Optics: TeleVue NP-127 at f/5.2, SBIG ST-2000XM
Mount: Losmandy G-11

Charles Banville

M104 - Sombrero Galaxy

7.9 day Moon - April 21, 2010

The Moon imaged with the VCO 14" SCT and Hyperstar using the QSI583cs CCD camera.

John McDonald

7.9 Day old Moon

15hr old Moon - April 14, 2010 20:23 hrs PDT

I ended up going to Mt. Doug. because I wanted to be as high up as possible. I ate supper at the top, set up my ED80 and my 10X50 binos, and watched the Sun set. Noticing the exact hill behind which the Sun set would be key to any possibility, as the Moon would be setting further north than the Sun did. Those thin wispy clouds made any possible naked eye sighting impossible but it still didn't stop the effort. I was also able to show many people Venus (naked eye) and both it and Mercury through my little refractor.

I did though keep scanning the appropriate area with my binos and saw in a clear blue patch what looked to me like the thinnest, pale white/grey, properly orientated crescent. I though at first it was just one of the cloud wisps but stayed steady on the object and noticed how it didn't move as the background did. I stayed on it for several minutes and the shape never changed until a grey patch moved in front of it and I never caught site of the crescent again. This was at exactly 2023hrs PDT (watch set by the NRC website). While I was observing the crescent with my binos I did switch to my refractor for a moment at 18X but found it made the background too bright and I saw nothing. When I switched back to the binos it reappeared. This to my mind helps confirm for me that I was seeing what I believed I was seeing.

Even though a naked eye sighting and record didn't happen, I'm thrilled with what I did accomplish. To my limited math skills I think this is a hair under 15hrs old Moon optical sighting.

Bill Weir

Solar prominences in Ha - March 19, 2010

There were multiple solar prominences visible on the Sun this afternoon, however a series of three in one group stood out as particularly spectacular. Reports from the previous day told of a single huge arching prominence at this same location on the solar disk. I took a series of photos through my Lunt solar telescope using my Canon 7D dSLR a-focally. See the other photos for a full disk view and for close-ups of the other prominences.

Joe Carr

Solar prominences in Ha
Seagull Nebula, IC2177 in Ha - March 19, 2010

Taken from Pearson College. Equipment: SW Equinox 80mm Refractor on SW EQ6 mount autoguided with an OAG camera. Orion Filter Wheel with Astronomic 13nm Ha filter. Imaging camera: Orion SSPro V1.

Guy Walton

Seagull Nebula, IC2177 in Ha
ISS over Victoria - March 17, 2010

The International Space Station is seen flying over Victoria as observed from Mount Tolmie using a Canon 7D dSLR and a Bower 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye lens.

Charles Banville

ISS over Victoria - March 17, 2010
Plaskett photography - March 12, 2010

The weather cooperated for Victoria Centre members, so they could use the 1.8m Plaskett telescope at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory to acquire photos of a wide variety of objects. M1 Crab Nebula, NGC2903 galaxy, M82 Cigar Galaxy (all by John McDonald).

Thanks to Dave Balam,  our very capable telescope operator.

Collection of Plaskett 2010 Photos - taken by Victoria Centre members

M1 Crab Nebula taken by John McDonald
Great Orion Nebula complex - March 6, 2010

My first image produced with the Williams Optic 66 acquired earlier this years. The entire complex nebula is quite nice and detailed compare to previous M42 images taken with CCD. Next things to learn... flats and darks!

Michel Michaud

Great Orion Nebula complex

Northern Star Trails - Feb 17, 2010

This image is a combination of 30 second images taken continuously all night from Yellow Point Lodge on Vancouver Island. The date was 2010-02-17 during the Vancouver Olympics so the ski regions and city lights show up in the lower right. Many lights from boats and airplanes can also be seen.

Northern Stars Overnight - a time lapse video using the same still photos.

John McDonald

Northern Star Trails
Horsehead with Ha combined with Color - Feb 17, 2010

This image was created using my Ha image of February 17, 2010 as a luminance layer and my color image of January 20, 2008 for the RGB layers. I used ImagesPlus 3.50a to align, scale rotate, split LRGB and combine the Luminance (Ha) and RGB channels. Photoshop and Noise Ninja were used to finish the image.

Guy Walton

Horsehead with Ha combined with Color
The Bubble Nebula NGC 7635 - Jan 15, 2010

My first attempt at enhancing a LRGB image with hydrogen alpha through the VCO's TeleVue NP127is & a SBIG ST-2000XM CCD camera using LRGBHa Astrodon filters.

Charles Banville

The Bubble Nebula
Plaskett photography - Jan 15, 2010, 7pm-10pm PST

The weather finally cooperated for Victoria Centre members, so they could use the 1.8m Plaskett telescope at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory to acquire photos of a wide variety of objects. Thanks to Dave Balam,  our very capable telescope operator, it appears everyone had their chance to image some of the objects from their lists before the high haze took its toll on the seeing. Observing log (text file).

Orion Nebula in H alpha - Jan 6, 2010

The Orion Nebula is a lovely sight visually and is strikingly beautiful when imaged in the light from the rich field of excited hydrogen gas that is feeding star formation in its core. Taken from Yellow Point Lodge, on southern Vancouver Island.

John McDonald

Orion Nebula in Ha

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