Rumples…
I agree with you on the quality of the other contestant’s offerings. All of them are first rate.

I have followed your work on Jupiter for a while, and I don’t know anyone who has surpassed your captures. Setting aside the favorable location in the sky, You The man!

I have never made an imaging run off before, and when I saw what my M27 was up against, a sigh of resignation followed.

I have no doubt that any of them could make APOD.
Whoever wins this, well done my friend!

Richard