Wednesday's Challenge: Visual Observations

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 Orion Nebula


The moon