Welcome to the Official Home Page of the West Jersey Astronomical Society (formerly known as the Willingboro Astronomical Society). Our club is in its 52^nd year of serving both the public and the amateur astronomers of the Delaware Valley. We have a long history of public education, star parties, interesting meetings, in-depth training and experienced leadership. We are a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Click here for membership information (dues can now be paid through PayPal).

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Steve Kutoroff Ray Pape Arnie Rosemoff Wade Evans

Club member Dan McCauley captured this delicately detailed image of Messier 78 and its surrounding objects, which includes the location of McNeil's Nebula, but the latter is not currently visible (mouseover for labels). Dan used a Takahashi TOA-130 apo refractor (with an f/5.5 reducer) and a ZWO ASI183 CMOS camera, capturing two hours of luminance data back in December 2018, then on the night of February 9-10, 2019, in Belleplain State Forest, NJ, he captured two more hours of luminance and two hours of color data (40 minutes each of RGB). Here's a picture of the rig at Belleplain. However, while processing the image, he was not satisfied with the color data from Feb 9-10, so he used some older color data from the same rig (sans reducer) and a QSI-683 CCD camera. Click here for a larger version of the M78 image.

Click here for the previous home page image.

Click to contact the . Members are encouraged to submit their astronomical images to the webmaster for inclusion on the WAS Home Page. Be sure to include a description, date and time, as well as equipment and photo data.