Wednesday's Challenge: Visual Observations
Wednesday's Challenge: Visual Observations
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On each Wednesday, is your time to share your evening and/or morning observations. You are encouraged to work ahead!
You will need record information and make a (minimum of) sketch of enough objects to score 20 points. Scores are capped at 20 points. Observations need to be separated by at least 6 hours.
For example:
4 objects + 1 constellation
Options are listed below
STARS (3 points)
Vega
Altair
Deneb
Formalhaut
Achemar
Hamal
Capella
any star with magnitude 2 or brighter
Planets (4 points)
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Visual or Observation at an offsite observatory (still record observations) +5 points
Visual or Observation at a star party run by a student (still record observations) +5 points
Our star the sun (3 points)
Our moon (3 points)
Any Zodiacal Constellation (3 points)
Capricornus
Aquarius
Pisces
Cetus
Taurus
Gemini
Cancer
Leo
Virgo
Libra
Scorpius
Sagittarius
Other constellations (2 pts)
Messier object (telescope or binoculars) (5 pts)
Caldwell object (telescope or binoculars) (5 pts)
NGC object (telescope or binoculars) (5 pts)
The summer triangle: Vega, Altair and Deneb.
The summer triangle: Vega, Altair and Deneb.
The Orion Nebula
The Orion Nebula
The moon
The moon
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