Telescope Reviews: August Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll

Welcome to the August 2006 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..

As with last month's poll, please choose your favorite out of all the images. This poll will remain open through Tuesday, September 19th.

Here are the entries for August 2006!

Rich Handy - Sketching Forum
Feature: Pythagoras and environs
Time: 6:30 UT to 8:30 UT
Lunation: 14.04 days Phase: 17.1 deg. Colongitude (geocentric): 77.3 deg.
Illumination: 97.8% Libration in Latitude: +5 deg. 41 min. Libration in Longitude: -4 deg. 28 min.
Seeing: Antoniadi II-III Weather: clear, calm.
Telescope: 12" SCT Focal ratio: f/16 (1.6X nose piece on binoviewer)
Binoviewer: W.O. Bino-P Eyepieces 12.4 mm Meade 4000 series plossls
Magnification: 393X
Sketch medium: White and black Conte' crayon and White Crayola chalk on black Strathmore paper.
Sketch size: 18" x 24"

Dr. Nick - Beginning Imaging
Lagoon Nebula LRGB
Time: 8:52pm
Date: 30th of July 2006
Camera: DSI Pro II
'Scope: 8" f/5 Newtonian Skywatcher
Proccessing: Autostar Envisage, Adobe Photoshop CS2

iceman - Solar System Imaging
Hi-res Plato and the Alpine Valley Mosaic
Captured at my home, on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia
Date: 3rd August 2006 0915 UT
Equipment: 10" dob on EQ platform
Camera: DMK21AF04
Barlows/Filters: 5x powermate + Astronomik R/IR filter
FL = 7500mm
15 avi's and 54 point MAP processing went into creating this mosaic.
Registax, Photoshop and AstraImage were used to process the image.

GB 10D - DSLR Imaging Forum
Nebulosity around Antares - Rho Ophiuchi
Date: 22-JUL-2006
Location: Hakos/Namibia
Camera: modified Canon 20D
Mount: OTE150
Telescope: TMB 80mm/F6
Adapter: Televue 0.8x reducer/flattener
Imaging: RGB ( IDAS-LPS): 12x300sec/ISO800.
Note: this is a mosaic of 2x2 images to cover this area of approx. 6deg x 4deg.

Please choose one
Users may choose only one (39 total votes)

Rich Handy - Sketching

8 20%

Dr. Nick - Beginning Imaging

1 02%

iceman - Solar System Imaging

15 38%

GD 10D - DSLR Imaging

15 38%