Remotely Celestial, Live Astrophotography with Jack Newton
Join us tonight with astrophotographer Jack Newton, as he guides you step-step through the process of remotely operating a telescope to capture a distant celestial object from his observatory in Portal Arizona.
Newton's photographs and articles appear frequently in Astronomy magazine and his images have appeared in Skynews (Canada) and in Sterne und Weltraum, a journal of the Max Planck Institute in Germany. His solar images appeared in National Geographic's 2004 special edition entitled Exploring Space - the universe in pictures, Time Inc.'s Life - the Year in Pictures (2003 & 2004), and in Sky & Telescopes 2004 Beautiful Universe issue. In 2007 one of his solar images was used for the lead-in to the science section in Life: Platinum Edition Anniversary Collection—70 Years of Extraordinary Photography.
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 | | Jack Newton is an Explore Alliance Astrophotography Ambassador |
| Devoting over a half-century to the astronomical community, Jack Newton's images have been shown to a world-wide audience.
A recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal for his contributions to science, Jack Newton takes us live to his observatory under the dark skies of New Mexico from his control room in Osoyoos, Canada for a rare opportunity to see the master himself working his craft.
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 | | The Refractor that Newton Images With |
| The Explore Scientific ED165-FPL53 Air-Spaced Triplet Refractor is the instrument that Jack often uses for his high-resolution wide-field imaging. Jack writes:
"It's the best refractor I've ever owned. It's absolutely stunning... it's outperforming the seeing all the time. I am only limited by the sky conditions because the telescope is so good. And the only time I can beat the sky conditions is when I am using narrow-band filters, it cuts out, of course, all the extraneous light other than the frequency you are using and it shows off just how damn good that telescope is!" |
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