RASC Astroimaging Certificate Program
RASC Astroimager – Wide Field
Requirements 15 images from the following list:
- ✅ Sunrise or Sunset
- ✅ Moonrise or moonset at full Moon
- ✅ Gibbous, half, or crescent Moon
- ✅ New Moon with earthshine
- ✅ Moon with a planet
- ✅ Moon or planet beside a deep sky object
- ✅ Two or more planets
- ✅ Mercury
- ✅ ISS or iridium flare
- ✅ Star trails
- ✅ The Milky Way
- ✅ Constellation
- ✅ Asterism – Big Dipper or Summer Triangle
- ✅ Aurora
- ✅ Two or more images showing the motion of a planet or asteroid
- ✅ Uranus or Neptune identified in a picture
- ✅ Sun or Moon halo, or Sundogs
- 🤬 Noctilucent clouds
- ✅ Lunar or Solar eclipse
- ✅ Comet
- ✅ Meteor
- ✅ Zodiacal Light

Bill Longo Canon EOS 90D All Rights Reserved f/22 1/640sec ISO-100 440mm

Canon EOS REBEL T3 10sec ISO-100

Bill Longo Canon EOS 90D All Rights Reserved f/8 1/1250sec ISO-400 481mm

Waxing crescent Moon

Canon EOS 5D Mark II f/4 1/30sec ISO-3200 300mm

Messier 45 and eclipse

Earth, Mercury, and Venus

Waxing crescent Moon with Venus and Mercury

International Space Station Expedition 41 over the DDO

Star Trails

Milky way over school house

Canon EOS 5D Mark II f/2.8 22sec ISO-3200 20mm

Canon EOS REBEL T3 29sec ISO-3200 50mm

Prairie Aurora

Moonrise with Mars

Zodiacal Light

Canon EOS REBEL T3 10sec ISO-100 50mm

C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) and ISS Expedition 63

Sundogs

12/13 August 2018, Kirkfield Ontario. SQM 20.42 16° C
RASC Astroimager – Solar System
- ✅ Full Moon shot (snapshot)
- ✅ Moon showing craters in detail (snapshot)
- ✅ Moon showing craters in detail (stacking)
- ✅ Gibbous, half, or crescent Venus, using stacking (use extreme caution near the Sun)
- ✅ Snapshot of Jupiter or Saturn showing moons with labels (overexposure of the planet is okay)
- ✅ Planetary shot of two of the three Mars, Jupiter, & Saturn, using stacking and showing verifiable surface
- ✅ Sun (H-alpha or white light)

Full Moon – Full Strawberry Supermoon on 14 June 2022

Moon showing craters in detail (snapshot)

Moon showing craters in detail (stacking)

Crescent Venus

Jupiter, using stacking and showing verifiable surface

Mars using stacking and showing verifiable surface

Saturn, using stacking and showing verifiable surface – Taken using the 74″ telescope at the Dunlap Observatory

Snapshot of Jupiter or Saturn showing moons with labels – The Moon with Jupiter and Galilean moons.

Sun (H-alpha or white light) Taken during the partial solar eclipse occurred on Thursday, October 23, 2014, a plane flew in front of the Sun.
RASC Astroimager – Deep Sky
Requirements 2 of each of the following:
- ✅ Emission or reflection nebulae
- ✅ Spiral galaxies
- ✅ Planetary nebulae
- ✅ Open clusters
- ✅ Globular clusters
- ✅ Dark nebula or comet

Orion Nebula

Rosette Nebula

Messier 51 and IC 4263

Messier 31

Messier 57

Messier 27

Messier 35

Messier 93

Messier 13

Messier 92

Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)

Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)