Hubble Telescope
35th Anniversary Challenge

Silver award (certificates only):

• One or more outreach activities must be done during one of the months for which you submit for the silver award; to spread the word about the Hubble Telescope and its mission.  An outreach activity is anything that spreads the word to others about the Hubble Telescope, its 35th anniversary, or this challenge.  This might be on a website, at a meeting, an outreach event, or on a blog.

• The same outreach activity may be used for multiple months at the silver level.  We encourage you to do more outreach activities to meet the requirements of the gold award.

• The observations must be done during the specific month for each silver certificate.

• Each month’s observation targets will be listed the prior month.  There is a list for northern observers and also a list for southern observers.

• You must observe at least one of the objects from either list each month to earn a silver certificate.

• Sketch or image the object(s).

• Attempt to identify the part of your sketch or image that corresponds to a part of the Hubble Telescope image.  (See links in the References section to access the Hubble image gallery.)

I should mention that I'm very red-green color blind.  The colors below look great to me, but maybe not so for those with normal color vision.

The newest monthly activities are at the top.  Earlier months are below.

Outreach for August 2025

• The new listing of the August targets was sent out to StLAstronomy@groups.io and ASEM DigitalSIG@groups.io on the 7/28/2025 and was sent out prior to the AL's webpage posting.   There are 250 members of the groups.

• Imaged with 4 ASEM members on the morning of 8/3 to capture the Titan shadow transit of Saturn.  We talked about the Hubble Challenge while observing/imaging/sketching.  I am not an ASEM member.

• August 19 briefly talked about the monthly targets for the ASEM DigitalSIG group on Zoom.  12 people tuned in..

Outreach for July 2025

• The new listing of the July targets was sent out to StLAstronomy@groups.io and ASEM DigitalSIG@groups.io on the 6/25/2025 and was sent out prior to the AL's webpage posting.   There are 250 members of the groups.

• July 15 shared images of monthly targets the ASEM DigitalSIG group on Zoom.  17 people tuned in..

Outreach for June 2025

• The new listing of the June targets was sent out to StLAstronomy@groups.io and ASEM DigitalSIG@groups.io on the 5/30/2025.   There are 250 members of the groups.

• June 17 shared images of monthly targets and Siril 1.40 Beta tips at the ASEM DigitalSIG group on Zoom.  14 people tuned in.

Outreach for May 2025

• The new listing of the May targets was sent out to StLAstronomy@groups.io and ASEM DigitalSIG@groups.io on the 4/27/2025.   There are 250 members of the groups.

• 05/20/2025  A presentation to the ASEM Digital SIG meeting on the Challenge.  There were eight people in attendance.

Outreach for April 2025

• The new listing of the April targets was sent out to StLAstronomy@groups.io and ASEM DigitalSIG@groups.io on the 3/26/2025.   There are 250 members of the groups.

• April 13 through 18 shared SeeStar images of the monthly targets while imaging at campground at Red River Gorge.  20 people over the course of the week..

Outreach for March 2025

• The new listing of the March targets was sent out to StLAstronomy@groups.io and ASEM DigitalSIG@groups.io on the 2/22/2025.   There are 250 members of the groups.

• A reminder was sent out on March 2nd to both groups.  The reminder also included information about how to find this month's very small targets.

• Sent an email that lead to posting an announcement about the March targets in the latest news on the AL's web page.  This should be posted monthly, so observers can easily see the updated target list.

• Conversations with YouTube provider about the challenge, questions they posed in their 3contet,  how to locate where the Hubble image in their vi3ws, and the AL in general.

Outreach for February 2025

• Email reminders to the groups.io lists StLAstro and ASEM DigitalSIG about the need to image the January targets were sent out on January 25th.  

• The new listing of the February targets was sent out on the first of the month.  

• Ten-minute presentation to the ASEM DigitalSIG Zoom meeting at 7:00 p.m. CST on 2/19/2025.

The part(s) of my images that correspond to the Hubble's view: 
(in some cases two Hubble images can be found in my field)

Outreach Activities for January 2025

• 1/21/2025 @ 7 p.m.
  Made a five-minute presentation about the challenge and observing program to the Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri's monthly DigitalSIG group about the challenge.  The presentation included the January target list and possible outreach activities.  Audience 14

Outreach Activities before January 2025

• 11/20/2024
  Emailed the 230+ members of  STLAstronomy@groups.io announcing and describing the challenge. Audience 219 members

• 12/21/2024 @ 7 p.m.
  Made a five minute presentation about the challenge and observing program to the Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri's monthly DigitalSIG group about the challenge.  The presentation included the January target list and possible outreach activities.  Audience 12 
  Since the DigitalSIG meeting is the third Tuesday every month this activity was done the prior month so the membership had a full month to work on the challenge targets and plan outreach.  I will continue to notify the DigitalSIG group members about the next month's targets as the year progresses.  The next meeting is on January 21 where I'll tell the group about the February targets.

• 12/29/2024.
  Emailed a reminder about the start of the challenge on Jan 1.  Audience 219 members