2027 RASC Victoria Astrophoto Calendar: RASC Victoria Centre

Plaskett Telescope

(RASC Victoria Centre) — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:59:33 GMT

]]>17 January 2026
Chris Gainor Photo

Deep partially eclipsed Full Moon

(RASC Victoria Centre) — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:13:21 GMT

]]>The Moon rose already in eclipse as observed from here in Victoria.

Canon R5, 100-500 L zoom with 2x tele-converter - EFL 1,000mm on a tripod.

Peacock Hill
Saanich, BC Canada
2026-08-27, 9:03:19 PM

Rosette Nebula

(RASC Victoria Centre) — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:21:30 GMT

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New Years Eve Moon 92% Dec 31/2025

(RASC Victoria Centre) — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:55:23 GMT

]]>All my photos are very large, and CANNOT be viewed correctly on Zenfolio which limits the viewed size to a couple of megapixels. They look small and blurry. Please download the full images and view on your computer and then you will be able to see them as they are intended - at the full uploaded size! Thanks. :))

Got a last session in in the last hours of 2025. Officially my lowest yield year for sessions. May 2026 be MUCH better.
APM 140mm F7., Player One Saturn C Sq, 9 panels. A total of 27,000 thousand 9mp raw video frames were used to create this. Nine panels in the mosaic, each stacks of the best 300 of 3000 frames for each panel.

Partial Lunar Eclipse over the Salish Sea

(RASC Victoria Centre) — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:59:48 GMT

]]>Turkey Head, Oak Bay, BC, Canada
August 27, 2026

Astrophotography SIG Collaboration - The Coma Cluster of Galaxies - cropped

(RASC Victoria Centre) — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:11:55 GMT

]]>Check out the detail and structure of these tiny galaxies. Note that the resolution is so high that many foreground MW stars are single pixels!
Imaged by Ron, Ken, Brock, and myself. - Fantastic Data
Processing by Dave Payne.
Cropped by Joe Carr to use in the RASC Victoria Centre 2027 calendar

Andromeda Galaxy - August 8, 2026

(RASC Victoria Centre) — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:41:55 GMT

]]>M31 The Andromeda Galaxy, taken at the 2026 Island Star Party, Saturday Night, August 8 2026

99x90sec exposures - 2hr 28min
Equipment:
Imaging Scope: William Optics Zenithstar 73II
Imaging Camera: ASI294MC
Filter: Astronomik L-3 Luminance UV/IR Block
Mount: ZWO AM5N
Processed in Pixinsight

Six Years of Saturn

(RASC Victoria Centre) — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:49:45 GMT

]]>I arranged these to illustrate better how the changing orientation of Saturn results from us seeing its 26.73 degree tilt from different orientations, as Saturn moves through its orbit.

Jupiter from the Centre of the Universe 16"

(RASC Victoria Centre) — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:56:22 GMT

]]>This image was taken Feb 28th 2026 using the 16" Boller and Chivens telescope at the Centre of the Universe. Callisto was transiting and shows up as a black dot in this image.

THe Rotting Fish Analogue

(RASC Victoria Centre) — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:47:15 GMT

]]>This closeup of a portion of a dust cloud in Cepheus reveals an analogue to the Rotting Fish galaxy, also in Cepheus. In both this and the analogue image, the molecular cloud globule is being shapes and eroded by a right to left wind of neutral atomic hydrogen wind. Both the shape and the whisps of the cloud can also be seen in non-gravity dominated multiphase flow in laboratories. In addition friction between molecular and atomic mediium phases is evident in the turbulence patterns.

Cygnus Wall - Reprocessed April 2026 (from July 2023)

(RASC Victoria Centre) — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:12:37 GMT

]]>This is 3 hours and 28 minutes of integration time of the Cygnus Wall taken with my ASI294MC and William Optics Zenithstar 73III.

Reprocessed in April 2026, originally taken in July 2023

M33 Triangulum Galaxy

(RASC Victoria Centre) — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 23:24:50 GMT

]]>M33 Triangulum Galaxy
140mm iStar with 0.65 Apex ED-L
STF 8300M with Astrodon LRGB filters

LND1235 DARK SHARK NEBULA

(RASC Victoria Centre) — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:33:25 GMT

]]>Imaged Aug 13, 2026 during the Pleiades Meteorite shower. 4.8 hours of subs imaged with Askar FRA500 90mm scope, ASI2600MM, EQ6R mount ASIAIR Plus, ZWO 7" filter wheel, ZWO EAF ZWO LRGB filters. Processed in PixInsight.
LRGB (22, 30, 22, 22,22) x 180sec Gain 100.

North America Nebula and Sadr Region

(RASC Victoria Centre) — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:33:14 GMT

]]>This is 1h17m of 30s exposures from the Vancouver Island Star Party using my Sigma 105mm at f1.4 and Canon Ra on a Skyguider Pro tracker. Calibrated with dark and flat frames (something went wrong with the bias frames during integration).
This is one of the richest hydrogen regions we have availble, and it was nicely placed to capture as it crossed the zenith. I scrubbed about 50 frames due to cloud, but this came out quite nicely given my focus was mainly on my telescope.