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Charlie Hein
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I am pleased to announce the winner of the February 2008 Cloudy Nights Imaging and Sketching Contest - JSnuff1!
M45 The Pleiades 1/31/08
Imaging: WO FTL 110 TEC @ F/6.5, SBIG ST4000XCM
Mount: Losmandy GM-8 auto guided with internal SBIG guide camera
18x600s Reduced aligned and combined in CCDSoft, touches in PS2.
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!
JSnuff1, 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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"He's dead, Jim - I'll get his wallet, you get his tricorder." - Leonard "Bones" McCoy
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Erix
Toad Lily
Reged: 12/25/04
Posts: 21986
Loc: Ohio, USA
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Congratulations on such an amazing image of M45! 
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Erika
Automatic doors make me feel like a Jedi. 
10" LX200 Classic, ETX70-AT, DS Maxscope 60mm, 12" Truss Dob, Orion ED80
My CN Gallery * 2007 July - tracking NOAA10963
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JSnuff1
super member
Reged: 12/29/04
Posts: 198
Loc: NY
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wow thank you for everyone that voted for me! I cant believe it since this picture was my first CCD image I took! Im quite honored to be chosen from all the other excellent and more experience imagers than I!
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William Optics 110 FLT (TEC version)
SBIG ST-4000XCM
Gemini GM-8
Digital Rebel
JGS Observatory Website
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Bart Declercq
super member
Reged: 01/21/07
Posts: 185
Loc: Haaltert, Belgium
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Congratulations! Tough competition this time, but you deserved to win!
Can't wait to see what else you'll produce.
Bart
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Jared
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 10/11/05
Posts: 2306
Loc: Piedmont, California, U.S.
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Congratulations! It's a wonderful image.
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- Jared Willson
- TMB 152 f/8 Apochromat
- Fluorostar FLT-110 w/ TEC optics
- Stellarvue SV80S
- Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO
- Takahashi Teegul SP Mount
- STL-11000
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Mr. Bill
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 02/09/05
Posts: 2983
Loc: Just passing through.....
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Almost 3-D....
Best image of Pleiades I've seen recently.
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10x50 Fujinon FMT-SX binos
15x70 AP binos + Paragon p-mount
Oberwerk 100BT 45 degree +24mm Pans + Hercules fork
120mm f/5 Orion achromat + Moonlite focuser
140mm f/5.7 Vixen NeoAchro Petzvel refractor
150mm f/6.5 Antares achromat
150mm f/8 homemade achromat....EE Barnard MW Sweeper
8 inch newt with f/5 Swayze mirror
10 inch f/4.7 Orion newt + Paracorr = (f/5.4)
15 inch f/5 Discovery split tube
35mm Pan, 26mm Nagler, 17mm Nagler, 13mm Ethos, 8mm Ethos
Member IDA
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F.Meiresonne
Post Laureate
Reged: 12/22/03
Posts: 3228
Loc: Eeklo,Belgium
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It's a great picture!
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Freddy Meiresonne
Obsession 18 inch #1638
Orion Optics 8 inch F/4.5 -1/8 wave optics -Vixen GP-E
20x80 Helios Stellar Binos
10x60 Helios Quantum 4(= Obie Mariner)
10x50 Helios Nature sport plus
8x40 Helios Nature sport plus
Eyepieces in use :Pan 35,24,19, N13T6, Pentax 10 XW, N9T6, Ultrascopic 7.5, TV2, baader ortho 12.5 and 9 mm
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jsmiller58
sage
Reged: 06/19/06
Posts: 213
Loc: Out there, Way out there
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Wow... Did you say "first CCD image"? Doubly amazing then!! Congratulations!
James
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- 90mm WO refractor
- 11" Orion SCT
- PlaneWave CDK17 ("Cosmic Cannon")
- MallinCam Hyper Color Plus
- More eyepieces than I can use, but not one Ethos... Hmmm... Where's the economic recovery?
- Atlas EQ-G mount
- Losmandy GM-8 mount
- AP 1200GTO mount
- Pro-Dome-15 Obs
- A wife who doesn't understand my fascination with faint fuzzies, but encourages me anyway
- A 17 year old son who calls me just another nut job with an observatory
- A 15 year old son that still thinks I am cool
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RichD
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Reged: 11/08/07
Posts: 384
Loc: Derbyshire, UK
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Amazing pic! i have never seen that much nebulosity around merope before.
Congratulations
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Clear skies
Rich
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