Two Images Released from
Australian Contests
In a special “Live from Gemini” videoconference event in mid-September, students from St.
Margaret’s Anglican Girls celebrated not only winning the 2013 Student Imaging Contest,
sponsored by the Australian Gemini Office, but also the release of the image they selected
as a target for Gemini to observe — the galaxy field field including IC 5332 (below). The
contest, now in its fifth year, gives Australian students an opportunity to select a target
for Gemini to image based on a nation-wide essay contest. St. Magaret’s student Isobelle
Teljega suggested this year’s winning target.
Australian Student
Imaging Contest (2013)
image of the nearby
(8.4 Mpc) spiral galaxy,
IC 5332, as well as a
cluster of more distant
galaxies. The color
composite image is
composed of images
from 4 filters: g (blue), r
(green), I (orange), and
Hydrogen alpha (red).
The field-of-view is 9.8 x
5.4 arcminutes and was
made from two pointings
using the Gemini Multiobject Spectrograph at
Gemini South.
On October 4th (Australian time) Isobelle
and her class shared
this honor with Paul
Fitzgerald, who won
the Amateur Astronomer Imaging Contest, which was run
in parallel with the
student competition.
His image of the nebula Gum 85 is featured on the cover of
this issue (see detail
on Table of Contents
page 2).
October2013
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