Membership Benefits

Photo Catagories:

Solar System: Planetary images, lunar images, conjunctions, International Space

Station, solar images

Deep Sky: Any deep space object: nebulas, galaxies, open and closed clusters,

objects from any deep space catalogue—M, NCG, IC, SH, and so on. Broadband,

narrow band, or blended. Narrow band objects must adhere to accepted colour

palettes: SHO, Hubble, HOO, etc. Custom colour pallets will not be accepted.

Nightscape: Wide-field images that include land or no land. Must have a major

target, for example, a comet, a lunar image, a deep space object.

Smartphone: Images taken with a smartphone; on or off a telescope.

Rules:

• You must be a memeber is good standing with the RASC Mississauga Centre.
• The image must be from this year and taken in Canada.
• There are two sets of categories for submissions: General Entry and Master Class.
  Note: Previous winners will be placed in the Master Class.
• The ranking will be first, second, and third.
• At least three entrants need to be entered per category for judges to consider images for ranking.
• The image must be your own acquisition.
  Note: Data processed from outside sources will not be accepted. Images taken using remote telescope services such as iTelescope, Slough, and the RASC remote telescope are not allowed.
• Judges’ decisions are final.

How to Submit:

• You can make as many submissions as you like
• Image Format:  JPG, TIFF, PNG less than 20Mb in size
• Submissions should be made by email with the image attached.
• Copy the form below into your email and fill it out.
• Send submissions to: astro@mississauga.rasc.ca
• Ensure no signature appears on the images for anominity during judging.

Copy the form below into your email:

Name:

Object:

Category:

Date Taken:

Location:

Equipment:

Image Processing: