Charlie Hein
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Welcome to the July 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 Wednesday, August 15th at midnight EST.
Here are the entries for July!
Solar System Imaging's Finalist - Bird:
Jupiter from my home at Murrumbateman, Australia. July 25 2007, 1139UTC
Scope details:
13.1" f/5.5 newtonian, 5x powermate plus extension tubes for effective focal length approx 14.3m. Camera was Dragonfly Express from Point Grey Research, firewire800 monochrome.
60 seconds per channel in R,G,B @ 42 fps, captured using Coriander for Linux
and processed under Linux and Windows.
regards, Bird
Beginning Imaging's Finalist - Zyxlor:
M16
Ha 300x8 - RGB 180x20
I used the LX200 with .63 reducer and the ST-10.
Aquired with Maxim DL, image matching in RegiStar, processed in PSCS3.
Film Astrophotography's Finalist - Nightfly:
Northeastern Cygnus:
Taken June 16, 2007
Pentax 67 with 165mm f/2.8 @ f/4
20 Minutes Exposure 12:31-12:51 A.M. EDT
120 Format E200, No push.
Scanned on an Epson 4490 Flatbed
Processed with Adobe PS Elements
Piggybacked on a Meade 2080, manually guided
DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing's Finalist - Mike B.
M20 - The Trifid Nebula
Location: Maurice, LA
Date: July 7th, 2007 (07/07/07)
Telescope: Meade 8" f/4 Schmidt-Newtonian
Camera: Hutech Modified Canon 350XT
Mount: Atlas EQ-G w/EQASCOM
Guiding: 102mm F/5 Achro, 2x Barlow, DSI-c, PHD Guiding
Exposures: 18 x 180 sec @ ISO 800
Processing: IRIS, PS, Gradient XTerminator & Noel Carboni's AstroTools
Click the image or click here for an enlargement.
CCD Imaging & Processing's Finalist - hess:
NGC4565
19.05.2007
10 Zoll f4,8 Newton
Atik 16HR
Luminanz 25x2min, 9x3min, 4x5min 1x1bin
R/G/B - 8 x 123/167/249 sec. 2x2bin
Sketching Forum's Finalist - SGT500:
Messier 27
Meade 16" Lightbridge
Televue Nagler 17mm T4
Orion Ultrablock
Good Luck to all our finalists!
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Solar System Imaging's Finalist - Bird:
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Beginning Imaging's Finalist - Zyxlor:
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Film Astrophotography's Finalist - Nightfly:
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DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing's Finalist - Mike B.:
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CCD Imaging & Processing's Finalist - hess:
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Sketching Forum's Finalist - SGT500:
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iblis
admirer of the sky
Reged: 07/12/06
Posts: 2243
Loc: Germany
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wow, what a Jupiter !
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The Universe is not only queerer than we imagine; it is queerer than we CAN imagine.
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and here I observe that universe
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Akarsh Simha
member
Reged: 03/27/07
Posts: 61
Loc: Bangalore, India
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As usual, I found it very difficult to decide the best! Congratulations!  to all of you.
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Regards,
Akarsh
http://bas.org.in
8" f/8 Equatorial
17.5" Discovery Dob in the making...
Nikon FM10 Camera
Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens
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Davey
sage
Reged: 05/31/07
Posts: 255
Loc: Arkansas
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It's hard to choose only one...
Great work guys; they all show impressive dedication and talent. They're all winners to me. (o:
Good seeing,
Davey
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Kenneth
Seeing in the Dark Moviestar
Reged: 09/15/05
Posts: 4
Loc: 37 45 N 122 25 W
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Might I suggest two contests: one imaging, the other sketching
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alun55
newbie
Reged: 07/16/07
Posts: 3
Loc: Les Gets: France
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So difficult to choose a winner. They just took my breath away!
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poweruser
member
Reged: 06/27/07
Posts: 97
Loc: The Final Frontier
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Jupiter and M20 look fantastic, but I have überrespect for the film guys. Plus, the star density in that pic is just fantastic.
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Orion 127mm Mak
EQ-3
Astro-Tech 1.25" Dielectric Diagonal
7mm, 9mm, 12.5mm UO Abbe
25mm Sirius Plössl
Edited by poweruser (08/13/07 02:23 PM)
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Astrolupa
member
Reged: 07/14/05
Posts: 82
Loc: Algarve, Portugal
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I've decided not to vote! Can't make my mind out! 
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Best Regards,
Nelson Viegas
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LXD55 10"
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guydickinson
journeyman
Reged: 02/17/06
Posts: 5
Loc: Dorset. UK.
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All brilliant. Might as well use a pin to decide!
Guy
UK
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johndouk
member
Reged: 08/24/06
Posts: 24
Loc: Athens, Greece
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Jupiter is unique !
NGC4565 as well is amazing !
I am swinging between those two...
Anyway, all are fantastic images !
Congratulations to all finalists !!! 
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John
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Trapper
newbie
Reged: 07/15/07
Posts: 3
Loc: Michigan
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All pics are fantastic!
Your all winners in my book. I almost feel guilty choosing one over another Can't we just declare them all winners and call it a day? 
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hobostar
journeyman
Reged: 08/11/07
Posts: 5
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top notch......every one.
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john D
All you have to do is ask!!
Reged: 08/05/07
Posts: 4966
Loc: Midlothian, VA
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very very nice job to everyone!!
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Meade ETX-125
Meade LXD55 mount
Philips SPC900NC webcam
Seymour Solar filter
Backyard Observatory
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boogie
member
Reged: 04/30/07
Posts: 70
Loc: Israel
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a big WOW to all !!!
Great work
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"It's at times like this, when I'm stuck in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelegeuse about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was little."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen!"
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riggie
newbie
Reged: 03/24/07
Posts: 1
Loc: Newcastle... England
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All photo's are excellent but NGC4565 by Hess looks amazing.
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lagwagon555
journeyman
Reged: 04/05/07
Posts: 9
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The amount of detail in NGC4565... man thats unreal
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Jenta
member
Reged: 12/04/06
Posts: 31
Loc: Northeast Ohio
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I'm so impressed with everyone's talent! I'm also very jealous. (I say that alot around here.)
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Jenta
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migo
newbie
Reged: 07/27/07
Posts: 1
Loc: Trois-Rivières
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I'm also impressed...so NGC4565 has my vote but you have all beautiful images
Migo
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rcg
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 04/27/05
Posts: 1409
Loc: Saint Charles, Missouri
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I'll second the two award route one for imaging and one for sketching. But even at that hard to decide.
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Bob G.
8" F/6 Achromat home assembled on home made AltAz w/Pearl Nighthawk finder; currently parting out since return shipping fees for bad APM 8" Achro lenses are killing me  who would have thought you wouldn't get reimbursed for return shipping for optical junk? Live and learn!
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WadeVC
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 12/02/05
Posts: 2799
Loc: Lodi, California,
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I don't know about the rest of you, but the descisions are becoming harder and harder to decide upon. I thought this round of voting was extremely difficult given that all the entries were quite excellent!
Good luck to all!!
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