Reintroducing Telescope 20!  Telescope 4 Retiring, Peter Lake on ACCELN Network, and more!
 


Reintroducing Telescope 20
 

For many years now, Telescope 20 has been on our network as a Single Shot Color CCD system, giving you color in a single click, but at the cost of resolution.  This was a wonderful system at the time as it gave members an alternative to Telescope 03.

As time has gone on however, our Members have voiced their opinions on the lack of an alternative to Telescope 14, a wide field, monochrome system.  Once Telescope 13 had come online, offering the alternative Single Shot Color CCD system to Telescope 03, we decided it was time for a change, and the result of that change is the New Telescope 20!



 
The New Telescope 20 is now an alternative option for the Wide Field Monochrome CCD System, T14.  It is a Takahashi FSQ-ED with an SGIB STL-11000M.  It has an FOV of 155.8 x 233.7 arc-mins and now supports LRGB, Ha, SII, OIII, and V filters.  For more information on this system please check our Telescope 20 page.

 
Telescope 4 Retiring

At the end of November, we will be saying goodbye to one of our systems.  Telescope 4 has been on the network for many years, but in order to make room for upcoming systems, it is time to set it to rest.


It has been a great system for us and our members in the past helping to make quite a few discoveries and taken thousands of deeps sky images over the years.  

In order to accommodate Telescope 4 Users, we would like to make T5 as close to T4 as we can.  If there are any changes you feel are needed to ensure you still have a home for your projects, please let us know by contacting us.  Following any changes that need to be made, we will be taking T4 off of the network in late November.

Please begin to wrap up any projects you have planned on T4 and be prepared to transfer any reservations beginning on or after December 1st over to Telescope 5.  


Position Angle Update

A couple of months ago, we let you know that we would soon be adjusting the Position Angle for Telescope 20 and Telescope 12, so that they will match Telescope 14.  As an update to this, the Position Angle of T20 has now been adjust to 90º to match T14.  We will also be making this change on T12 in early November.  



iTelescope's Peter Lake on ACCELN Network

Peter Lake, our Science and Education Adviser recently sat down for a google hangout with the ACCELN Network for a discussion about Space Science and Astronomy in schools.
 

 
Peter Lake is one of iTelescope's science advisers, our education adviser, and the author of AstroSwanny's AARTScope Blog.  In this video, Peter gives some great insight into some of our current educational programs including our involvement in research programs like OSIRIS-REx Target Asteroids, and his thoughts on the evolution of Astronomy.  

Yarra Valley Grammar Students catch Juno Flyby on iTelescope!

iTelescope.net would like to congratulate Yarra Valley Grammar School, Melbourne Australia, on their OSIRIS-REx Target Asteroids work with Arizona University. They were also able to capture the Juno Spacecraft on T11 as it passed the earth on its slingshot fly by on its way to Jupiter on Oct 10.  Amazing work!

http://www.yvg.vic.edu.au/news/juno-flyby

They also ended up on NASA's Juno Gallery!



Member Showcase

Last month, we asked you to start imaging and post those images on Facebook and you responded!  

This month we wanted to pay tribute to all the amazing images of Comet ISON that our members have been taking, but before we do, I am very excited to share an APOD winning image from two of our members.

Roberto Colombari and Federico Pelliccia created this jaw dropping mosaic of the Horsehead and Orion Nebula.  It was featured on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day web site on the 29 of October, 2013.  I usually try to write something to describe the image, but in this case the image fully speaks for itself.  So I am happy to share with you the Horsehead and Orion Nebulae from Roberto Colombari and Fedrico Pelliccia!


This image of M42 and IC434 was captured by Roberto Colombari and Fedrico Pelliccia on both T12 and T20 with some short exposures on T7 and T11.  It consists of 12x300s Luminance for each of the 3 panels, bin 1x1.  3 x 600s Ha for each of the 3 panels, bin 1x1, and 1x300s of R, G, and B for each of the 3 panels, bin 2x2.  It was processed with PixInsight and PSCS5.


Now we would like to share a few members images of Comet ISON!

I want to start by showcasing yet another APOD!  This time it comes from Damian Peach on Telescope 21.  His image hit NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day website on the 7th of October, 2013, and is a fantastic image of ISON as it passed Mars on it's way through our Solar System.

This APOD winning image of Comet Ison was captured by Damian Peach on the 24th of September, 2013.  It was created with 5 x 3min of Luminance and 1 x 2min of R, G and B on T17 with the Moon Present.  A very nice shot of ISON soon after it has passed Mars.
 


Next, I want to share another image by Damian Peach.  This one if from nearly a month and half later and I love the amount of development you can see in the tail.


This second image of Comet ISON by Damian Peach was imaged on the 6th of November, 2013.  You can really see the development of the tail between this image, and Damian's APOD winner back on the 24th of September.  It was taken on T17 with 8 x 2min Luminance and 1 x 2min R, G, and B.  

 


Next, I would like to share Rolando Ligustri's image from his own personal device.  This image shows the beginnings of possible outburst of ISON and the color Rolando produced is absolutely fantastic!


This amazing image was captured by Rolando Ligustri on his home system - an apo Wo 98/350 with corrector, a 70/500 refractor for guiding and a CCD Starlight SXVM25C with it's CCD Autoguider Mounts, Vixen Sphyinx first version.  This image is a wonderful view of  comet as the tail becomes brighter !


Finally, I would like to share Nirmal Paul's image from T21 on the 22 of October, 2013.  This image shows the comet in Luminance with the False Color image on the corner.  


This image of Comet Ison was captured by Nirmal Paul on T21 with 5 x 1min Luminance.  It's a great shot showing ISON in it's visible color with a False Color image showing the fine details of ISON.  Wonderful shot!

 
We hope you enjoyed these fantastic images taken on iTelescopes.  If you would like to see more of our Member Showcase winners, please take a look at our Member Showcase Image Gallery!


Next Months Showcase

Each month we hold a contest to show off our members amazing images!  To take part in the contest, all you need to do is post your image on our Facebook page or join the iTelescope.Net Member's Club, our Members Only Facebook Group, and post there.  Please include which telescope, the number of exposures, filters used during exposures, how long each exposure lasted and the tools used to process the image.  The deadline for submissions is 31st of December, 2013.

iTelescope Staff will then pick winners from submissions between the 15th of November and 31st of December and showcase them in the next newsletter.  The winning submission will be awarded 100 iTelescope Points and have their image highlighted on our web page and newsletter.  Backup winners will be chosen if the winners do not claim their prize when notified by email from aron@itelescope.net.
 
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