I am pleased to announce the winner of the February 2008 Cloudy Nights Imaging and Sketching Contest - JSnuff1!

M45 The Pleiades 1/31/08

Imaging: WO FTL 110 TEC @ F/6.5, SBIG ST4000XCM
Mount: Losmandy GM-8 auto guided with internal SBIG guide camera

18x600s Reduced aligned and combined in CCDSoft, touches in PS2.

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!

JSnuff1, 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