Telescope Reviews: Jul08 Bright Challenge Poll!

We are very pleased and proud to present the July 2008 entries in the Beginning Imaging Bright Challenge. The poll will close on August 8 at Midnight. The winner will be announced at our earliest opportunity after the poll has closed.

Here are July's entries (Lunar Crater Aristoteles)!

Richard Scott:

maged through my C11 at prime using a SSDSI Color
.004 seconds through a cheap moon filter.
Then some Nebulosity and Photoshop

Jerry3672:

Meade LXD-75 SN8 Sony H7 Afocal Digi-T adapter 70 subs stacked in registax.

phil piburn:

Taken last month thru the eyepiece 9mm Burgess on a Stellarvue 80mm
Nighthawk with a Fuji F-30 camera. 1/250 sec. 200 ISO

centus:

Here's my shot at it, taken tonight (13th of July) through my 6" Newt with an SPC900NC webcam.
Stacked about 64 frames out of 1000 with Registax, did some post processing in GIMP.

fishmagnet:

Aristoteles crater top center with Eudoxus crater below and Burg crater to the right. Imaged from Satellite Beach Florida on 7/9/08 with a Philips TouCam PCVC 740K through a Vixen ED 103S refractor and a Meade 3X Telenegative Barlow. Consists of 347 AVI frames alinged and stacked in Registax 4.0. Unsharp mask, resize and color balance applied in Photoshop CS3.

zAmbonii:

Details:
Imaged with Philips SPC900NC webcam on a C6-N with 3x Orion Trimag Barlow. Best 200 frames multipoint stacked with Registax. Deconvolution with AstraImage. Highpass filter plus slight curves adjustment in PSCS3.

White balance was definitely off but I liked the color and decided to keep it...so here it is:

Blood moon

Congratulations and good luck to each entrant!

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Which Image is our Winner?
Users may choose only one (37 total votes)

Richard Scott:

3 08%

Jerry3672:

3 08%

phil piburn:

1 02%

centus

0 0%

fishmagnet:

24 64%

zAmbonii:

6 16%

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Weston CSC: