I am pleased to announce the winner of the December 2007 Cloudy Nights Imaging and Sketching Contest - DeepSpaceViews!

Hello,
This image of the Witch Head Nebula was taken from the 2007 Black Forest Star Party in PA.
Telescope- Takahashi FSQ-106ED
Mount- Takahashi EM-500 Temma II
Camera- SBIG STL-11000M
Filters- Astrodon L,R,G,B
All channels were taken at 8 x 10min exposures bin 1x1.
Processed in CCDStack & Adobe Photoshop CS2

A larger version can be seen here http://deepspaceviews.com/2007%20BFSP%20Witch%20Head%20Image.htm

Thank you,
Stephen T. Roffo Jr

To all of you who took the time to stop by and vote for your favorite submission - thank you so much! Your participation really makes the contest!

To all the contestants - every one of your submissions is worthy of winning. Congratulations to all of you on a job done very well indeed!

Stephen, congratulations on your win! Please contact me via PM with your t-shirt size and also the address where you want us to send it!

Charlie