Telescope Reviews: March07 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll!

Welcome to the March 2007 Cloudy Nights Imaging/Sketching Contest poll!

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 Tuesday, March 17th at midnight EST.

Please Note: The contest poll should have started on the 10th and ran until the 15th, but it was delayed until now - we will run the poll for 5 days as specified in the rules, so instead of ending on the 15th, it will end on the 17th, and the winner will be posted on the main site at our earliest convenience after that point. We will do our best to make sure that from here on out we're on time with the polls!

Good Luck to all our contestants!

Here are the entries for March!

Beginning Imaging - Star surfer8:

M81&82
Orion ED80
Canon 300D modified
LXD75
PHD guided
18X600 ISO800
Acquired and processed with Iris and PS6

Film Astrophotography - Paul Lennous:

Flame and Horsehead Nebulae
Paul Lennous
November 18, 2006 1:00 AM CST at Pedernales Falls State Park, Texas
2 hour hand guided exposure on Fuji Provia 400 Slide Film, no pushing
Imaging Telescope: Orion ED80 (80mm f/7.5)
Mount: Stock Skyview Pro with Dual Motor Drive
Camera: Vivitar V3800n with a standard shutter cable
Guiding Hardware: Lumicon 2" Easy Guider, Antares 2X Short Barlow, and Orion 5mm Ultrascopic Reticule EP

DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing - Kentari:

Lunar Eclipse of 03-04/03/2007 from Hove, Belgium

Telescope: Orion Optics 8" f/4.5 Photo Newton with Celestron MPCC
Mount: Losmandy GM-8
Camera: Canon EOS 20D
Exposure: 6s at ISO 400
Processing: Photoshop CS2 - Neat Image

Koen van Gorp

CCD Imaging & Processing - dietmar:

I have imaged M 106 in two very different nights.
in the first one I had a terrific transparency of 8-9/10; seeing was less well with 5/10
in the second night it was almost the other way around.
seeing was very good with 7/10 and transparency only 5-6/10

9" TMB Apo f/7 (Tele Vue 0,8 reducer)
SXV M25C
3,5 hours (4,8,12, min frames)
AA4, PS CS2, Pix IS Le

Solar System Imaging & Processing - Tizianobkk:

- Telescope: ATM Newton 275mm F/5 Giacometti Optics
- Barlow Powermate 5X, total focal lenght 11,000mm
- LRGB composite with Lumenera LU075M CCD camera and Truetec filter set.
Taken from my balcony observatory in Bangkok Thailand.

Sketching - cildarith:

Subject: PK 348+34.1 (Abell 33), a Planetary Nebula in Hydra
Observer: Eric Graff
Location: Cuyamaca Mts., San Diego Co., California (4,000 ft. elevation)
Date & Time: 12 March 2007 at 04:30-05:15 UT
Transparency: NELM 6.7
Seeing: Pickering 5-6/10
Telescope: Parks Astrolight EQ6 (6" f/6 Newt)
Eyepiece: 20mm Parks Gold Series Plössl (45x, 70' FoV)
Filter: Lumicon OIII Filter
Sketching Materials: #2 pencil, black ink, blending stump, 24# copy paper

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Who is our winner this month?
Users may choose only one (102 total votes)

Star surfer8:

10 09%

Paul Lennous:

5 04%

Kentari:

29 28%

dietmar:

27 26%

Tizianobkk:

12 11%

cildarith: