John "Jack" Borden Newton (born 13 August 1942, Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian astronomer, best known for his publications and images in amateur astrophotography.
[1] In 1991, Newton became the first amateur astrophotographer to make full color CCD images of celestial objects using a Santa Barbara Instruments Group ST-4 camera, making a full color CCD image of M57, the "Ring Nebula" and M27, the "Dumbbell Nebula".
Jack has led solar eclipse expeditions to Oaxaca (Mexico), Baker Lake, Nunavut, Bransk, Baja California, and Indonesia.
[5] Newton helped establish the astronomy program at the Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific (UWC), in British Columbia, Canada, to which he donated his 25-inch Newtonian telescope.
His photos have been published in Skynews (Canada) and in Sterne und Weltraum, the journal of the German Max Planck Institute.
[9] In 2007, one of his solar images was used for the lead-in to the science section in Life: Platinum Edition Anniversary Collection—70 Years of Extraordinary Photography (ISBN 1-933405-17-1) His solar images appeared in National Geographic's 2004 special edition entitled Exploring Space - the universe in pictures, Time Inc.'s Life - the Year in Pictures (2003 & 2004), and in Sky & Telescopes 2004 Beautiful Universe issue.
[citation needed] Through 2023, the Newtons owned and operated an astronomy-themed bed and breakfast – the Observatory B&B – near Osoyoos, British Columbia.