Telescope Reviews: June Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll

Better late than never..

Welcome to the June Cloudy Nights Imaging/Sketching contest!

Each month the best images selected from the individual Cloudy Nights Imagnig and Sketching forums will be presented for the userbase to vote on. The monthly winner receives a Cloudy Nights t-shirt!

Please take a moment to rate each of the following images on a scale from 1 to 5. At the conclusion of the poll, the total of all ratings for each entry will be tabulated, and the the entry with the highest overall rating will be chosen as the winner of the Challenge.

This poll will remain open through Saturday, July 22nd.

Here are the entries for June 2006!

DSLR Forum winner:
21 x 4 min at ISO 800 Televue 85, x0.8 FR and Canon 10D
Centered at 00:00 UT 05 May 2006.
M13 with Comet 73P-B Schwassmann-Wachmann-3
Taken By Tonk

Solar System Imaging Forum winner
Jupiter and Io by rumples riot

Sketching Forum winner
Observer: Eric Graff
Subject: A Unique 'Double-Double' in Hercules
Object Data & Comments: Double Star ADS 10905 (STF 2245) (7.4, 7.4; 2.6"; 293°; pale blue and pale yellow) with NGC 6500 (SAab:; 12.7; 2.2' x 1.6') and NGC 6501 (SA0+:; 12.3; 2.0' x 1.8') a nearly identical pair of distant galaxies separated by 2'27" in position angle 35°/215°; both are elongated NNE-SSW with slightly brighter centers
Location: Cuyamaca Mts., San Diego Co., California (4,000 ft. elevation)
Date and Time: 19 June 2006 at 05:40 to 06:20 UT
Transparency: 6.6 NELM
Seeing: Pickering 8/10
Telescope: 6-inch f/6 Parks Astrolight Newtonian Reflector
Eyepiece: 7.5mm Parks Gold Series Plössl (120x, 26' FoV)
Barlow: 2x Parks Gold Series (240x, 13' FoV)
Filter: None
Medium: White 100# index card, No. 2 Mechanical Pencil, Blending Stump, Black Ink

Beginning Imaging Forum winner
Paul Rix

CCD Forum

Dean Rowe
Conifer Colorado
5/24 - 5/28/2006

CCD Forum winner
Ring Nebula (M57) HaLRGB
894 minutes 470:208:72:72:72 Ha & Lum binned 1x1, RGB binned 2x2
Ha with 10 and 30 minute subs, L & RGB with 8 minute subs
12.5" RCOS at F/9 on an AP1200
ST10MXE CS 10nm Ha and Astrodon LRGB filters

Tonk (DSLR Forum)
Users may choose only one (65 total votes)

5 points

42 64%

4 points

15 23%

3 points

5 07%

2 points

2 03%

1 point

1 01%

rumples riot (Solar System Imaging Forum)
Users may choose only one (67 total votes)

5 points

25 37%

4 points

24 35%

3 points

16 23%

2 points

1 01%

1 point

1 01%

Eric Graff (Sketching Forum)
Users may choose only one (63 total votes)

5 points

15 23%

4 points

20 31%

3 points

18 28%

2 points

5 07%

1 point

5 07%

Paul Rix (Beginning Imaging Forum)
Users may choose only one (63 total votes)

5 points

14 22%

4 points

20 31%

3 points

22 34%

2 points

7 11%

1 point

0 0%

Dean Rowe (CCD Forum)
Users may choose only one (66 total votes)

5 points

36 54%

4 points

18 27%

3 points

9 13%

2 points

0 0%

1 point

3 04%