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Oct07 Winner - CN Imaging/Sketching Contest! new
      #1988779 - 11/16/07 06:56 AM

I am pleased to announce the winner of the October 2007 Cloudy Nights Imaging and Sketching Contest - PhilG!



NGC 7635 - The Bubble Nebula in the Hubble Narrowband Pallette
Telescope/Mount: Stellarvue SV115: 115mm f7. Mountain Instruments MI-250 mount.
CCD: SBIG ST2000XM with Astrodon SII, Ha and OIII filters.
Image Details and Processing: 27-1/2 total hours. 9-1/2 hours Ha and OII, 8-1/2 hours SII in 30 minute. Captured with CCDSoft and automated with CCD Commander. Processed with CCDStack and Photoshop.
Date and Location: Denver, CO. July 6 - August 1, 2007
Larger image can be seen here.





To all of you who took the time to stop by and vote for your favorite submission - thank you so much! Your participation really makes the contest!

To all the contestants - every one of your submissions is worthy of winning. Congratulations to all of you on a job done very well indeed!

PhilG, congratulations on your win! Please contact me via PM with your t-shirt size and also the address where you want us to send it!

Charlie


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Re: Oct07 Winner - CN Imaging/Sketching Contest! new [Re: Charlie Hein]
      #1989827 - 11/16/07 04:18 PM

Congratulations, Phil! That's certainly a beauty. Well done!

And congratulations to all the other entrants for the excellent images.

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Re: Oct07 Winner - CN Imaging/Sketching Contest! new [Re: Erix]
      #1990532 - 11/16/07 10:13 PM

the image is definately one-of-a-kind! it almost looks like a hubble image. excellent!

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Re: Oct07 Winner - CN Imaging/Sketching Contest! new [Re: moron392]
      #1991082 - 11/17/07 09:01 AM

Thank you Erika and ... Moron392.

Its an honor to be in the contest with such great looking images and talented, dedicated imagers and artists.

Phil

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Re: Oct07 Winner - CN Imaging/Sketching Contest! new [Re: PhilG]
      #1992015 - 11/17/07 05:52 PM

Congrats Phil! An honor well deserved.

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Re: Oct07 Winner - CN Imaging/Sketching Contest! new [Re: lineman_16735]
      #1992824 - 11/18/07 02:07 AM

Congratulations Phil!

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Re: Oct07 Winner - CN Imaging/Sketching Contest! new [Re: WadeVC]
      #1999589 - 11/21/07 02:13 AM

Phil you have private messages disabled and I'd like to ask you a question, how would i go about doing this? Basically I just have some questions regarding astronomy in Denver.

Thanks!

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Edited by Subterralien (11/21/07 02:25 AM)


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Re: Oct07 Winner - CN Imaging/Sketching Contest! [Re: Subterralien]
      #2000018 - 11/21/07 09:53 AM

Thanks Chris and Wade!

Subterralien -wasn't there a Radiohead tune with a similar name? Turned my PM back on if you want to talk.

Phil


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