Monthly Showcase

For April, the entries displayed below. Please vote on your favourite at: https://nsas.proboards.com/thread/121/april-2020-monthly-showcase-voting. You’ll need to be a member and logged in to the forum to place your vote. For May, entries are open – please send your submissions to me at bpetschel@gmail.com.

Hi everyone, Congratulations to Kym Haines whose wonderful image of M83 Southern Pinwheel Galaxy was voted the best of the March 2020 entries. It was a close contest with only one vote separating him from the other entrants. Congratulations also to David Wallace who had the best article “Light Detectors”. There are still a few…

Hi everyone, Congratulations to Greg McCall who had both the best image (as voted by members) and the best article (as voted by the committee) for February. The image was M83 Southern PInwheel Galaxy and the article was an Introduction to Astrophotography. All of ourmembers’ excellent contributions will be published in Reflections magazine. For March,…

Hi everyone, There are still a few days left to submit your entries for the March 2020 Monthly Showcase. There haven’t been any entries yet, so it’s your chance for an easy win! Please submit your entries to me at bpetschel@gmail.com Also, since meetings have been cancelled for the time being, we are now doing…

Hi everyone, There’s still one day left to submit your entries to the February 2020 Monthly Showcase. We’ve received one article and one image so far, but it would be great to get a few more. Please submit your entries to me at bpetschel@gmail.com. Cheers, Ben

Hi everyone, I’m delighted to announce that the winner of the October 2019 Monthly Showcase is Nick Angelini with a beautiful image of the occultation of Saturn by the Moon. Entry and Exit images are attached. The best article is “How to extract energy from black holes” by Jean-Luc Gaubicher. All articles and images will…

Hi everyone, The October 2019 Monthly Showcase competition is open for entries. The submissions can be articles, drawings, animations, photos or anything, of any astronomy-related object 10km and up. Please send your submissions to me at bpetschel@gmail.comby the end of the month. The September 2019 winner is Kym Haines with a magnificent picture of CG4/Hand…

Hi everyone, Congratulations to Kym Haines who won the August monthly showcase with a beautiful image of the Trifid Nebula. Excellent entries were also received from Jean-Luc Gaubicher, with a smartphone shot of the Moon and Saturn side by side, and from John Sandoval with a star trails video. The September Monthly Showcase is still…

Hi everyone, I’m delighted to announce that the winner of the July 2019 Object of the Month best image (The Moon or its features) is Seaforth Anderson with an excellent image using a smartphone through a telescope. Close runners up are John Sandoval, with an amazing zoom in of the Rupes Recta linear fault, and…

Hi everyone, There’s been a tremendous response to the June 2019 Object of the Month (NGC 3372 Eta Carinae nebula) with eight image entries and two articles! The image winner by committee vote is Daniel Patos with a magnificent set of 3 images (one attached). Honorable mentions go to David Armen (with another smartphone shot)…