Featured Photograph
Messier 42, the magnificent Orion Nebula
© 2024 Klaus Brasch
Messier 42, the magnificent Orion Nebula, a favorite object in any amateur telescope, is usually portrayed in vivid, high contrast colors. While that looks spectacular, the reality is that one of our closest stellar nursery’s true colors are likely much more subdued. I have attempted to depict it in hues one might expect as seen in a large aperture telescope, showing the light pink emission regions and the bluish reflection veils surrounding the nebula’s core.
DETAILS: Astro Physics AP 155 Starfire shooting at f/5.2, though an IDAS LPS-V4 filter and a spectrally modified Canon EOS 6D Mrk II. Total exposure: 8 minutes at ISO 4000.
Klaus Brasch
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Monthly Meeting for October
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Presenter: Wayne Johnson
Title: “Searching for Supernovae (SNe)”
Mr. Galaxy (aka Wayne Johnson) will discuss the various types of supernovae and how to report their potential discovery. Then he will talk about his personal discoveries of six (so far!) SNe found over a period of eight years. Now fairly commonplace, he is the first amateur SN hunter to find two Supernovae in one night.
Bio: Wayne is a retired electrical engineer by profession but has been an avid amateur astronomer far longer. He is past president of a couple astronomy clubs, one of them the country's largest astronomy club, the Orange County Astronomers (OCA), in southern California. He used their 22-inch Kuhn telescope for his SN discoveries along with making many other interesting observations. He also co-discovered that one of Don Machholz's many comets was fragmenting in 1994 with that telescope. Wayne and his daughter, Kristen, both have an asteroid named for them. Wayne was honored by the Astronomical League's (AL) which awarded him with its most prestigious Leslie Peltier Award in 2004 for his observations of Supernovae.
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.
