Telescope Reviews: Aug08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll!

We are very pleased and proud to present the August 2008 Solar System Imaging Semi-Finalists in the Imaging/Sketching Contest.

Bart Declercq:

My submission is the area from Rupes Recta to Werner on the moon.

The image is a mosaic of images taken using a Celestron C9.25 at F/16 (FL 3800mm), using an Imaging Source DMK31 camera, operating at 30fps through an Astronomik Red filter.

The image consists of about 6 separate AVI's, each originally 2000 frames long, multi-aligned in Registax selecting the best 256 frames per alignment point, with about 20-25 alignment points per AVI.

The image was taken from Haaltert, Belgium (N 50.885°, E 4.015°) on 2008-07-24 at approximately 3h50UT. The moon was about 45° high in the sky and the seeing was decent, though not very good (hence the use of a Red filter and the relatively short FL)

Mick Hyde:

Moons Southern Highlands - 23rd Aug 2008 - 3:30am
Bad to average seeing.
Equipment: C9.25, 2.5x TV Powerview, DMK21AF04AS, Celestron Skylight and red.
25 x 1000 frame avi, best 300 processed in Registax and photomerged in CS3.

Lunatiki:

From 08-26-2008

Jupiter and Europa
Equipment 8 inch SCT
2x barlow
DBK21AF04.AS
K3ccd/Registax4/PSP8
1000 frames stacked.

Mike Phillips:

Jupiter's moons, Ganymede and Callisto transiting on 2008-08-05: from 0218 to 0403 UT.
Quickly processed animation of 18 frames from about 6 minutes apart and 60s per RGB-channel each.

I used:
Ubuntu Linux and coriander
8" Celestron C8i SCT
DMK 21AF04
2.5x PowerMate
Astronomik LRGB filters
True Tek Color Filter Wheel with visu diag

HANTO:

Jupiter accompanied by 3 of his moons (Ganymede, Callisto, Europa listed from left to right).

8-in Newton @ f/19.6 mounted on Losmandy G11.
LRGB with L = 0.5R + 0.5G, Astronomik RGB, DMK21AF04.AS.
Good to very good seeing.

Please note that voting will conclude on September 8th at Midnight EST.

Many thanks to all who took part in the contest!

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

Bart Declercq:

8 44%

Mick Hyde:

6 33%

Lunatiki:

3 16%

Mike Phillips:

1 05%

HANTO:

0 0%

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