Telescope Reviews: July Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll

Welcome to the July Cloudy Nights Imaging/Sketching contest!

Each month the best images selected from the individual Cloudy Nights Imaging and Sketching forums will be presented for the userbase to vote on. The monthly winner receives the coveted Cloudy Nights t-shirt! At the conclusion of the poll, the entry with the highest total will be the winner of the contest..

By popular request, the poll this month will be conducted differently as compared to previous months. Instead of ranking each entry, please just choose your favorite out of all the images. This poll will remain open through Saturday, August 19th.

Here are the entries from July 2006!

Rich Handy (Kraterkid) - Sketching Forum
Subject: Anaximenes, Philolaus and environs Rukl: 3
Date: 7-6-06 Start - 4:36 UTC End- 5:58 UTC
Seeing: Antoniadi III-IV Weather: Clear
Telescope: 12" Meade SCT f/10 f.l.
Binoviewer: W.O. Bino-P
Eyepieces: 20mm W.O. WA
Nosepiece: 1.6X Magnification: 244X
Lunation: 11.45 days Phase: 50.9 degrees
Libration in Latitude: +6 deg 2 min
Libration in Longitude: -6 deg 48 min
Medium: White Conte' Crayon on black textured Strathmore paper
Sketch size: 18" x 24"

microbes - Beginning Imaging Forum
Sagittarius Region of the Milky Way.
Shot on film with a Yashica FX/2 mounted on an EQ2 at f/1.9 thru a 50mm lens on Fuji Superia

Xtra 800.
20 second exposure, processing limited to cropping and darking the shot.

2020BC - DSLR Imaging
Subject: M20 (Trifid Nebula) and M8 (Lagoon Nebula).
Camera: Canon 350D (unmodified) prime focus.
Exposure: 7 x 4 Mins, ISO 800, Noise Reduction On.
Scope: Orion 80mm ED with crosshairs piggyback on Meade SN-8.
Mount: Meade LXD-75 (with SN-8) Manually Guided.
Location: Canberra 24Jun06 1300 hrs UTC.
Processing: Manual align in MaxDSLR, processed in ImageReady.

redvis - Solar System Imaging:
Sunspot 898 July 2nd 2006
Coronado PST doublestacked
Lumenera SkyNyx 2-1 camera
Captued in K3CCD, processed in registax/photoshop CS

Please choose one
Users may choose only one (56 total votes)

Kraterkid - Sketching

22 39%

microbes - Beginning Imaging

2 03%

2020BC - DSLR

7 12%

redvis - Solar System

25 44%