I am pleased to announce the winner of the September 2008 Cloudy Nights Imaging and Sketching Contest - Jim Lafferty!

Here is a slice of NGC 7000. Imaged with TOA130 with reducer and my ST2000xm camera with Astrodon filters from Redlands, Ca. The mount was my NJP Temma 2. 70-80-70 minutes each of binned SII-Ha-OIII with 80 mins of unbinned Ha as a luminance layer

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!

Jim Lafferty, 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