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Feb08 Winner - CN Imaging - Sketching Contest! new
      #2262813 - 03/17/08 07:10 AM

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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Re: Feb08 Winner - CN Imaging - Sketching Contest! new [Re: Charlie Hein]
      #2263041 - 03/17/08 10:11 AM

Congratulations on such an amazing image of M45!

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Re: Feb08 Winner - CN Imaging - Sketching Contest! new [Re: Erix]
      #2264869 - 03/18/08 01:04 AM

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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Re: Feb08 Winner - CN Imaging - Sketching Contest! new [Re: JSnuff1]
      #2265155 - 03/18/08 08:44 AM

Congratulations! Tough competition this time, but you deserved to win!

Can't wait to see what else you'll produce.

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Re: Feb08 Winner - CN Imaging - Sketching Contest! new [Re: JSnuff1]
      #2266959 - 03/19/08 12:57 AM

Congratulations! It's a wonderful image.

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Re: Feb08 Winner - CN Imaging - Sketching Contest! new [Re: Jared]
      #2270466 - 03/20/08 03:20 PM

Almost 3-D....

Best image of Pleiades I've seen recently.



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Re: Feb08 Winner - CN Imaging - Sketching Contest! new [Re: Mr. Bill]
      #2279433 - 03/24/08 07:02 PM

It's a great picture!

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Re: Feb08 Winner - CN Imaging - Sketching Contest! new [Re: JSnuff1]
      #2287915 - 03/28/08 11:00 AM

Wow... Did you say "first CCD image"? Doubly amazing then!! Congratulations!

James

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Re: Feb08 Winner - CN Imaging - Sketching Contest! [Re: jsmiller58]
      #2305131 - 04/04/08 04:11 PM

Amazing pic! i have never seen that much nebulosity around merope before.

Congratulations

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