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RASC Astroimaging Certificate Program

RASC Astroimager – Wide Field

Requirements 15 images from the following list:

  1. ✅ Sunrise or Sunset
  2. ✅ Moonrise or moonset at full Moon
  3. ✅ Gibbous, half, or crescent Moon
  4. ✅ New Moon with earthshine
  5. ✅ Moon with a planet
  6. ✅ Moon or planet beside a deep sky object
  7. ✅ Two or more planets
  8. ✅ Mercury
  9. ✅ ISS or iridium flare
  10. ✅ Star trails
  11. ✅ The Milky Way
  12. ✅ Constellation
  13. ✅ Asterism – Big Dipper or Summer Triangle
  14. ✅ Aurora
  15. ✅ Two or more images showing the motion of a planet or asteroid
  16. ✅ Uranus or Neptune identified in a picture
  17. ✅ Sun or Moon halo, or Sundogs
  18. 🤬 Noctilucent clouds
  19. ✅ Lunar or Solar eclipse
  20. ✅ Comet
  21. ✅ Meteor
  22. ✅ 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

  1. ✅ Full Moon shot (snapshot)
  2. ✅ Moon showing craters in detail (snapshot)
  3. ✅ Moon showing craters in detail (stacking)
  4. ✅ Gibbous, half, or crescent Venus, using stacking (use extreme caution near the Sun)
  5. ✅ Snapshot of Jupiter or Saturn showing moons with labels (overexposure of the planet is okay)
  6. ✅ Planetary shot of two of the three Mars, Jupiter, & Saturn, using stacking and showing verifiable surface
  7. ✅ 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:

  1. ✅ Emission or reflection nebulae
  2. ✅ Spiral galaxies
  3. ✅ Planetary nebulae
  4. ✅ Open clusters
  5. ✅ Globular clusters
  6. ✅ 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)