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Sep08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Winner!
      #2701813 - 10/16/08 07:05 AM

I am pleased to announce the winner of the September 2008 Cloudy Nights Imaging and Sketching Contest - Jim Lafferty!



Here is a slice of NGC 7000. Imaged with TOA130 with reducer and my ST2000xm camera with Astrodon filters from Redlands, Ca. The mount was my NJP Temma 2. 70-80-70 minutes each of binned SII-Ha-OIII with 80 mins of unbinned Ha as a luminance layer






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!

Jim Lafferty, 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!

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Re: Sep08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Winner! new [Re: Charlie Hein]
      #2702893 - 10/16/08 07:09 PM

What a beautiful image!

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Re: Sep08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Winner! new [Re: iceman]
      #2703314 - 10/16/08 11:17 PM

Thanks Mike--love your image gallery site!!
Jim

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Re: Sep08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Winner! new [Re: Jim Lafferty]
      #2723227 - 10/28/08 06:43 PM

... Wow!

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Re: Sep08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Winner! new [Re: Charlie Hein]
      #2725026 - 10/29/08 05:33 PM

Jim

Congratulations! Beautiful photographic imaging! It makes me wish that the live human eye could see this like the camera does, so I could sketch it with pastels directly from the eyepiece.

I look forward to seeing your next photo imaging efforts.

Mark


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Yossi Hury
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Re: Sep08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Winner! new [Re: markseibold]
      #2727067 - 10/30/08 07:41 PM

Yes JIM. You are a Winner.

What beautiful colors of the mountains and valleys of MEXICO.

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Re: Sep08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Winner! new [Re: Yossi Hury]
      #2750699 - 11/13/08 09:32 PM

Wow, what a beautiful picture!

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