Telescope Reviews: August Bright Challenge Poll

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

Here are August's entries!

jgw12936

This was my second attempt at Jupiter. This one has the Europa transit.
DMK21AF04.AS, Orion Filter wheel and filters, 1 min each RGB, 30FPS
Processed with Registax, Images Plus, Astra Imax and PS
C8, 2X Powermate

DaemonGPF

Here's the best I have at the moment, specs listed in the pic.

Richard Scott

I’m no good at waiting till the end of the month to post…
Jupiter and his four big ones
Orion SSDSI, C11 and CG-5
Imaged at F/20
Stack of 100 at .04 sec. for Jupiter and
10 at 2 seconds for the moons
Nebulosity then Photoshop

phil piburn

Fuji F-30 digital camera thru the 4mm
eyepiece on a 80mm Stellarvue refractor ISO 800 50/100 sec.

Jerry3672

Jupiter was imaged with a Sony H7 Digital camera with an afocal adapter from CNC supply on a 40mm eyepiece.

The moons were imaged with a DSI-pro. 1X 60 second sub.

Combined in photoshop. I used a layer mask to remove the over exposed Jupiter in the DSI layer.

NyxAither

Jupiter 8.20.08

Jupiter: 400 frames stacked in Registax
Moons: 1/5 second exposure
Scope: Dobsonian XT8i
Camera: SPC900NC
Location: My driveway, Washington DC

fishmagnet

This image was captured from my home in Satellite Beach Florida at 11:17 pm EDST on 7/10/08. I used a Vixen ED 103S refractor and a Takahashi EM-11 Temma II Jr mount. I shot the image at f/23.1 with a 3X Meade Telenegative Barlow and a Philips PCVC 740K TouCam. The image consists of 397 of 932 frames from an AVI shot at 15 fps. Image was aligned and stacked in Registax 4.0 with color balance, resize, and smart-sharpen performed in Photoshop CS3. Satellites from left to right are Io, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. I took my first ever astro-image on 8/26/07.