Greg K.
Reged: 12/11/03
Posts: 9971
Loc: Clifton Park, NY
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Welcome to the December 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..
Please choose your favorite out of all the images. This poll will remain open through Friday, January 26th at midnight EST.
Here are the entries for December!
Beetlejuice: Beginning Imaging
Great Orion and The Running Man (M42,M43,NGC1977,NGC1981)
Vixen ED80sf on LXD55.
Modified Canon 300D.
20X60sec, 8X300sec ISO 800.
Bias,darks,flats aligned and stacked in IRIS.
Finishing processing and composite of exposures to preserve core in Photoshop.
hess: DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing
Subject: Horsehead
Date: 31.10.2006
Location: Austria
Scope: 10 Zoll Newton f4,8
Mount: OTE150 I
Camera: Canon 300Da
6x10min and 6x6min / ISO400
Autoguiding with Philips Webcam and K3CCD Tools
Paul Rix: Solar System Imaging & Processing
As for details, I used my 10in LX200 Classic (F10), and a Phillips SPC900NC webcam. I decided to use 20 frames per second despite the image compression (I figured that more frames = more chance of capturing something). Exposure I guaged by using Deneb (it was guesswork really). Sliders for both exposure and gain were at about 50% I think.
Sally Russell: Sketching forum
England
Subject: 'Metius, Fabricius, Janssen and Lockyer'
Scope: 105mm AstroPhysics Traveler, 2x Barlow, 3.5mm TV Nagler (magnification ~x340)
Date: 9th December 2006
Time: 05.40 - 06.55 UT
Lunation: 19.1 days (disc illumination 80.6%)
Sketch: White pastel pencil on black 'Canford' paper
Sketch size: 8 inches x 11 inches
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Beetlejuice
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hess
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Paul Rix
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Sally Russell
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SolidAhmed
sage
Reged: 10/16/06
Posts: 400
Loc: Los Angeles
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Paul Rix all the way. the other pictures are AMAZING, but man how did you get the ISS?! amazing. to be honest they are all great.
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Celestron C6-S GT Schmidt-Cassegrain w/XLT
Canon Digital Rebel XTi
F-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens
Vixen 10x50
www.InterstellarArt.com
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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Jon Munson
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Reged: 12/29/05
Posts: 17
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good shot on the space station, really nice...
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Anonymous
Unregistered
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All were quite good, but deffinetly iss and the shuttle
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Mike Quilty
newbie
Reged: 03/22/06
Posts: 1
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I am blown away by the skill and talent shown by all four entrants. I had a really tough time picking. The skill of the sketch of the moon was amaizing. The images of DSO's fantastic. However I can't help wondering if the men in black are'nt watching Paul Rix. I mean five grand worth of equipment and a little effort vs. how many billions for the NSA?
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rkroin
newbie
Reged: 11/28/06
Posts: 1
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Who would have imagined just a few years ago that amateurs would be making photographic images like these. Incredible and gorgeous! But my vote goes to the evocative sketch; there's nothing like the human hand and mind to give meaning to what we see.
Bob Kroin
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thuemen-cm
newbie
Reged: 11/21/06
Posts: 1
Loc: Ontario, Canada
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They are all great entries and all should be congratulated. The degree of difficulty in capturing the ISS and the Space Shuttle is for me a notch higher.
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simonn
newbie
Reged: 12/09/06
Posts: 1
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well I'm jealousjavascript:void(0)
 .. all are great.. but i had to go with the shuttle\issjavascript:void(0)
 .. just because its hard to spot and capture..
well done
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JMP
sage
Reged: 10/31/05
Posts: 215
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Can I vote twice?
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BillyA
newbie
Reged: 11/19/05
Posts: 2
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Yes. My REAL vote is: All of the above. 
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Randall
member
Reged: 10/20/05
Posts: 26
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All of them are INCREDIBLE!
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Sheridan
sage
Reged: 10/12/05
Posts: 237
Loc: Splendora Tx
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I have to say all of them are incredible. All of you do fantastic work and should be proud, however im going to have to go with Paul Rix. That is just to much...
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Eric
Lx-200 8" Classic
Meade 3.3 Focal Reducer.
Orion Star Shoot
10" Starfinder.
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Michael Perata
member
Reged: 02/24/06
Posts: 42
Loc: San Jose, CA
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Wow. All are fantastic but the ISS/Shuttle shows a lot of ingenuity and skill.
I bought a Paramount ME to make shots like these trivial, but with a LX200 - wow!
Also, I am curious how Beetlejuice added the spider vane spikes after shooting with an APO.
Edited by Michael Perata (01/25/07 04:12 PM)
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Dark Boy
member
Reged: 07/24/06
Posts: 97
Loc: Italy, Canosa di Puglia
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Beautiful images, but the ISS is incredible!
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I'm Italian but I Love USA! I hope to become a Mission Specialist!
Marco
Celestron C9 1/4 XLT
PS.If I don't speak American/English well, please correct me.
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KeithC
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Reged: 08/23/06
Posts: 50
Loc: Atlanta GA
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This seems so unfair. How am I supposed to pick a winner out of all these outstanding images?
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I own one half of a 35 year old Atco 10x50 binocular. I threw it at my brother in 1975 and broke the other half so I took a hack saw and turned it into a monocular.
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balanore
newbie
Reged: 05/18/06
Posts: 1
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All where great, but the horsehead nebula blew me away, evreryone is very talented !
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AndTam
newbie
Reged: 01/14/07
Posts: 2
Loc: Rome
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The drawning is a beauty!
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mikey cee
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 01/18/07
Posts: 2326
Loc: bellevue ne.
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i'm lookin' at this "thing" and lookin' and lookin' and i said to myself what in the hell is this supposed to be?..... and then it hits me!!!! it's the space shuttle and iss! aok dude you got my vote, not because it's pretty but because it's pretty "unbelieveable"!
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Mike 10x50 sears tower binocs, 3" f/10 edmunds reflector, 2.4" f/11.7 manon refractor, 6" f/8 jaegers refractor, "The 8 Ball" 8" f/13.3 brandt refractor, 3" f/15.8 sans&streiffe refractor, 3.1" f/15 selsi refractor(towa 339), 2.4" f/15 sears refractor, selsi 30x30mm spyglass, criterion 5-draw 25x45x75x spyglass(1957).
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Chuck Fellows
sage
Reged: 08/21/05
Posts: 450
Loc: Cave Creek, Arizona
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All the photos are spectacular and I particularly like Sally Russell's drawing, but in the end, I have to vote for the ISS and the shuttle.
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16" Truss DOB Swayze Mirror
7.1" Custom Mak Newt
Tools, Lots and Lots of Tools!
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iblis
admirer of the sky
Reged: 07/12/06
Posts: 2243
Loc: Germany
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I vote for Hess, the finest scene of the sky in a perfect shot !
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Grüße von Iblis
The Universe is not only queerer than we imagine; it is queerer than we CAN imagine.
(Haldane)
and here I observe that universe
The sky is my heaven !**********  ********
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