Telescope Reviews: Aug08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll!

Here are the Beginning Imaging Semi-Finalists in the CN Imaging and Sketching Contest for August 2008:

Mopman:

Here is my August 2008 entry (my first astro image): Perseid Track 8-12-2008, near Prosser, WA looking NE. Fixed Tripod, Oly E-410, 28mm lens @f4, 8 min exp w/ Noise Reduction. Cropped and processed in Photshop Elements 5.

Doug6952:

Here is my entry. M27: 8" F/6 on a CG5-GT mount with a Meade DSI Pro 1, 138- 15 second subs taken on August 23rd 2008 around 1:00 am from my deck in NJ.

Scott Mitchell:

Shoot I'll throw one in too so that there's at least more to choose from. M63 on an 8" LX90 using a DSI Pro with a .5 focal reducer. 36 subs for total of 9 minutes exposure. Taken back in May from a nice and dark state park in south Georgia.

Richard A Scott:

M27 from the 28th Imaged through my C-11 at F/3.3 or so using the original Orion SSDSI
I used two focal reducers in tandem. An F/6.6 SCT reducer and an F/5 nosepiece reducer.
A stack of 35 60-second exposures, dark subtracted.
Auto-guided through an ED80 using a Meade DSI Pro and PHD
Processed through Nebulosity using its colors in motion routine, and a bit of Photoshop as well.

fishmagnet:

NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula, imaged at Camp Zyxlor (Zi-lore) in St. Cloud Florida on 8/13/08. Captured with my Vixen ED 103S refractor and Takahashi EM 11 Temma II Jr mount and SBIG ST-10E CFW-8 CCD camera. Five exposures each in LRGB unguided at three minutes for a total of one hour. Aligned, darks subtracted and combined in MaxIm DL4. Levels, curves, layering and sharpening applied in Photoshop CS3.

Jerry3672:

This is M8 taken with a Canon XSi 450D unmod. single 2min sub. LXD 75 SN8 Unguided.

NyxAither:

Here is my shot of the August 16th full moon. I used a dobsonian mounted xt8i and an SPC900NC to take 63 shots of various parts of the moon. I used a mosaic software to create this image. It's my first lunar mosaic so I can't wait to do another.

Many thanks to all who took part in the contest!

Please note that voting will conclude on September 8th.

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Which Image goes to the finals?
Users may choose only one (18 total votes)

Mopman:

1 05%

Doug6952:

2 11%

Scott Mitchell:

0 0%

Richard A Scott:

3 16%

fishmagnet:

5 27%

Jerry3672:

5 27%

NyxAither:

2 11%

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