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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: lightfever]
      #2249363 - 03/10/08 10:30 PM

All I have to say is that I'm glad we only have to do this once a month. These guys are all so good it's nearly impossible to select just one winner.
Keith


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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: lightfever]
      #2249417 - 03/10/08 10:52 PM

Oy! Choices. Choices. I find the angle on AstroBobos lunar eclipse sequence interesting and innovative. We night people rarely want the lights of the day people. I'm a sucker for Saturn. Especially such a detailed image; I do believe I see the Encke division. But THAT MOON! Too fine to pass up. My clear choice. I can feel it passing overhead this minute. Congrats to kraterkid!

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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: lightfever]
      #2249463 - 03/10/08 11:11 PM

I must concur with several others - this is the toughest choice I have seen since I joined. Each entry could win any other month. I went with Igor partially because it was a new view to me, but they all were astonishing - and kraterkid truly captured a unique moment.

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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: lightfever]
      #2249569 - 03/11/08 12:01 AM

I am impressed with the crystal clarity of the Pleiades, each of the entries are impressive; however, I too must conclude the Eskimo is startling in brilliance and this photo won my vote. Yet Saturn, great photo only the Keck telescopes could top it, then again it would be splitting hairs. Well done all. Bob Carton

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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: kenren10]
      #2249575 - 03/11/08 12:03 AM

Kudo's to Mike @ Astronomics for encouraging such beautiful work!

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lagwagon555
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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: lightfever]
      #2249588 - 03/11/08 12:11 AM

Pleiades... is there anything more beautiful?

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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: lightfever]
      #2249600 - 03/11/08 12:20 AM

Great solar sketch, Mark. Wanna sell it? <g>

Well done, all. That's a magnificent M45 for a "beginner's shot"!

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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: Protheus]
      #2250002 - 03/11/08 08:32 AM

Then all thses people must be a professional and don't even know it,because when someone offers me a compliment and smile for something I have done, I feel humble for accepting
such a reward as payment for something I love to do.

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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: lightfever]
      #2250670 - 03/11/08 03:20 PM

All are great, but i"ll go for ngc 2264.

thank"s ....YOSSI HURY


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Yossi Hury
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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: lightfever]
      #2250676 - 03/11/08 03:25 PM

All are great, but i"ll go for ngc 2264.

thank"s ....YOSSI HURY


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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: Yossi Hury]
      #2250922 - 03/11/08 05:39 PM

This is the best bunch I've seen since first noticing these about a year ago. They all are glorious. Trying to pick from amoung is making my head hurt....

I came real close to plunking for the NGC2264 photo. Such detail taken with a little newt.

But I finally went for the sketch of the lunar eclipse. Kraterkid put a lot of detail into his picture based on "naked-eye" observation. Just wonderful.

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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: markseibold]
      #2251012 - 03/11/08 06:20 PM

Good for you!

We are so saturated. We have too much 'stuff'.

Ben Waranowitz

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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: lightfever]
      #2251358 - 03/11/08 08:28 PM

OMG - these are the best images ever!!! AWESOME!!
But I had to vote for the Crater Kid! Awesome sketch!


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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: lightfever]
      #2251626 - 03/11/08 10:16 PM

Wow! Once again a superb set of entries, every one! Both of the nebulae are targets rarely shot by astrophotogrophers, the pleiades is absolutely fantastic and the sketching is just superb. I found it a very close call between the saturn picture and the film photo of the lunar eclipse... in the end I went for the eclipse, not only because it is an amazing piece of astronomy but also it is so unusual to see such a contrast between earth and space on the same picture.
But really, I think one of the best lineups yet!
Keep up the good work!!!


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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: lightfever]
      #2251702 - 03/11/08 10:57 PM

Sketching Forum's Finalist - kraterkid, got my vote. I like to vote for whatever entry strikes me as most original. This time, it was the artist that caught my attention most.

Very fine set of entries.

Carl


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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: Charlie Hein]
      #2251742 - 03/11/08 11:19 PM

wow............... these are all amazing.

The images of the Pleiades and 2264 both took my breath away- incredible. But I went for the Eskimo Nebula. It's such a beautiful, wondrous phenomenon, that I feel lucky given the chance to enjoy it as never before.

What an exceptional photo, thanks for sharing it with us.

... and thanks for my new desktop!

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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: lightfever]
      #2251869 - 03/12/08 12:25 AM

I went for the Eskimo--that sucker was shot with a BARLOW!!!!!

Great job Dietmar!!!!!

Jim

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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: Jim Lafferty]
      #2251986 - 03/12/08 01:47 AM

WOW, they are all so good...
So hard to decide...
Went with M45 but they all deserve an award.

GREAT JOB EVERYONE!!

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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: stkoepke]
      #2252402 - 03/12/08 10:03 AM

The contest entries all exhibit the incredible level of talent and ability featured by the CN membership. What is truly astounding is to compare these with the photos published by the world's premier observatories 10-20 years ago. Kudos to all contestants; they are all superb images.



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Re: Feb08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll! new [Re: Steenhoek27]
      #2260856 - 03/16/08 10:04 AM

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I think that these "Finalists" need to be renamed "WINNERS" in their respective category as they are ALL truly fantastic displays of the heavens!!!

There is still room for a "Overall Monthly Winner" but these entries deserve to be called something better than "finalists"!!!!

just my opnion....




Actually each one *is* the winner of the individual polls taken in each forum represented. The prize for winning is that they become a finalist in the site-wide contest.

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