Wally Pacholka: Crater Lake Galaxies
Don’t miss this month’s free RASC public lecture and star party at the Morgan Arboretum! Astrophotographer and former RASC Montreal Centre member Wally Pacholka will present a slide show of his stunning astrophotos. Weather permitting, the presentation will be followed by a stargazing session with our RASC Montreal Centre members’ telescopes.
FREE PUBLIC LECTURE AND STAR PARTY
Speaker: Wally Pacholka
Topic: America the Beautiful at Night
Saturday, June 11, 2011
starting at 8:00 p.m.
Visitor’s Centre
Morgan Arboretum
Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue
Wally Pacholka: Grand Canyon
About Wally Pacholka
Pacholka shoots celestial events – comets, close visits by other planets, meteor showers and the occasional Milky Way cluster – with our national parks and other down-to-earth scenery gracing the foregrounds of his frames. The 57-year-old Long Beach resident left accounting three years ago and now focuses full time on his passion – sayonara book ledgers and hello rocky ledges, the kind on which he can mount his camera tripod and await the majesty of the heavens.
He is a three-time “Picture of the Year” winner for Time and Life magazines’ end-of-year photograph editions. Both magazines honored him in 2003 for shots he took when Mars made its closest pass to Earth in almost 60,000 years, and Time also tabbed him in 1997 for a picture he took of Comet Hale-Bopp above Joshua Tree National Park. National Geographic also has used several of his shots, and NASA has shown more than two dozen of his images, including 22 of them as the “Astronomy Picture of the Day” on its Web site.
Make sure you visit Wally’s wonderful website
www.astropics.com
