I participate in a monthly online observing report (for both visual & imaging) called the "Observers Challenge", hosted by Roger Ivester and Sue French.
Roger started the monthly challenge report in February 2009. His purpose for the report is to promote observing, (both visual sketching and imaging),
by amateur astronomers from around the world to share their observations of a particular monthly deep-sky object.
The hope is to inspire fellow amateurs to get outside with their telescopes and observe, regardless of the technique used.
In October of 2019, Sue French, who has been a participant for many years, came on-board to help with co-hosting the challenge.
Here's a link to Roger's index:
Archive for the "Observer’s Challenge Reports"
Roger invited me to join the 'challenge', and I began submitting object reports starting with December 2020.
below you may find my individually submitted report per object, but I highly encourage everyone to follow the above link to Roger's web blog
to read the full report containing all participant submissions for the object of the month.
Enjoy!
Larry
NGC6118 in Serpens
Note: In July 2024, Roger & Sue announced that they have decided that the June report of NGC6118 to be the final 'Observer's Challenge' report.
The index and reports will remain online and available to anyone to be used for reference.
Additionally, Roger & Sue provided a list of objects for the remainder of 2024, and the entire year of 2025.
This is for those who so choose to continue with the challenge observing agenda and to share with clubs, friends and other. But observations after June 2024 will not be compiled into the online report.
I have decided to see the observations thru to the end of 2025.
2024
January - NGC936
February - NGC1579
March - NGC2440
April - NGC3190
May - NGC5350
June - NGC6118
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2023
January - NGC1245
February - NGC2024
March - NGC2481
April - NGC3044
May - NGC4088
June - NGC5774&75
July - NGC6217
August - M56
September - NGC6891
October - NGC7027
November - IC10
December - IC1848
2022
January - NGC1501
February - M42
March - Abell21
April - NGC3079
May - M106
June - NGC5474
July - NGC6210
August - NGC6772
September - NGC6751
October - M39
November - NGC7184
2021
January - IC348
February - NGC1983 & IC410
March - NGC2685
April - NGC3226/3227
May - M3
June - NGC5756
July - NGC6572
August - M57
September - NGC6823/6820
December - NGC16
2020
December - M76
