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Per request I've started a locked thread for winners of the CN Imaging/Sketching contest. Please, even if you should find this thread unlocked do not post in here - it's for winning entries only!
For those of you who are into stats:
Excel workbook with latest stats attached.
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March 2006 Winner - DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing's Finalist - Michael Hernandez
NGC2237
Mapped in the Hubble Palette
several nights in DEC2005 and JAN2006
SII_HA_OIII map
FSQ106N
ParamountMe unguided
Canon 20D
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April 2006 Winner - Sketching Forum's Finalist - Erika Rix
Bullialdus
Name: Erika Rix
Location: Zanesville, Ohio
Date: 2005-11-12 (0100-0300UT)
Telescope: 10" LX200 Classic
Barlow: none
Filters: none
EP: 8mm TV Plossl with diagonal
Medium: Rite in Rain paper, charcoal
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May 2006 Winner - Solar System Imaging's Finalist - richard bosman
Saturn 2006/4/1
280 mm SCT
3x TV barlow
Astronomik IrRGB filters
ATK-2HS
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June 2006 Winner - DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing's Finalist - Tonk
Comet 73P-B Schwassmann-Wachmann-3 passing by M13
21 x 4 min at ISO 800 Televue 85, x0.8 FR and Canon 10D
Centered at 00:00 UT 05 May 2006.
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July 2006 Winner - Solar System Imaging's Finalist - Cameran (redvis)
Sunspot 898 July 2nd 2006
Coronado PST doublestacked
Lumenera SkyNyx 2-1 camera
Captured in K3CCD, processed in registax/photoshop CS
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August 2006 Winners - A tie!
DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing's Finalist - GB 10D

Nebulosity around Antares - Rho Ophiuchi Date: 22-JUL-2006 Location: Hakos/Namibia Camera: modified Canon 20D Mount: OTE150 Telescope: TMB 80mm/F6 Adapter: Televue 0.8x reducer/flattener Imaging: RGB ( IDAS-LPS): 12x300sec/ISO800. Note: this is a mosaic of 2x2 images to cover this area of approx. 6deg x 4deg.
Solar System Imaging's Finalist - iceman

Hi-res Plato and the Alpine Valley Mosaic Captured at my home, on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia Date: 3rd August 2006 0915 UT Equipment: 10" dob on EQ platform Camera: DMK21AF04 Barlows/Filters: 5x powermate + Astronomik R/IR filter FL = 7500mm 15 avi's and 54 point MAP processing went into creating this mosaic. Registax, Photoshop and AstraImage were used to process the image.
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September 2006 Winner - Solar System Imaging's Finalist - rumples riot

Jupiter and Ganymede C9.25 Vixen 2x DX barlow DMK21AF04 Astronomiks filters Taken 1315 UT 18 May at Blackwood South Australia.
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October 2006 Winner - Sketching Forum's Finalist - Rich Handy

Subject: Aristillus and Autolycus Rukl: 12 Date: 10-13-06 Start: 9:15 UT End: 10:50 UT Lunation: 20.90 days Phase: 277.5 deg Illumination: 56.5% Colongitude: 164.8 deg Lib. in Lat.: -5 deg 40 min Lib. in Long.: +7 deg 39 min Seeing: Antoniadi III-IV with 30 seconds of Ant. II every 20 minutes Weather: Clear early, turning to occasional clouds mid to late during session, 10-15 knot winds late. Telescope: 12" Meade SCT F10 Binoviewer: W.O. Bino-P with 1.6X Nosepiece. Eyepieces: W.O. WA 20mm Plossls Magnification: 244X Lunation: 18.48 days Phase: 311.1 deg Illumination: 82.9% Colongitude: 133.7 deg Lib in Lat.: -3 deg 53 min Lib in Long.: +5 deg 12 min Sketch medium: White and black Conte' Crayons on black textured Strathmore paper. Sketch size: 18" x 24"
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November 2006 Winner - Solar System Imaging's Finalist - Wes Higgins (wes)
* Sinus Iridum imaged 09/14/06 , 11:15 UT
* 18" Starmaster Reflector, 4x Powermate, Infinity 2-1M camera, MAP processing (38 points), stack of 250 frames
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December 2006 Winner - Solar System Imaging's Finalist - Paul Rix
"As for details, I used my 10in LX200 Classic (F10), and a Phillips SPC900NC webcam. I decided to use 20 frames per second despite the image compression (I figured that more frames = more chance of capturing something). Exposure I guaged by using Deneb (it was guesswork really). Sliders for both exposure and gain were at about 50% I think".
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January 2007 Winner - DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing's Finalist - Corn

Rosette nebula
Scope: 8" Newt with MPCC and UHC Mount: EQ6 Pro Camera: 300D(IR mod) Exposure: Mosaic of two images 2x9x600s ISO800 Loc: 2006/12/17 Uppsala/Sweden/Walter
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February 2007 Winner - Solar System Imaging's Finalist - Pete Lawrence

Canon 10D, 14s @ ISO400, 16mm f/2.8 wideangle lens. February 14th, approximately 420m above Tromso on the top of Mount Storsteinen
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March 2007 Winner - DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing's Finalist - Kentari

Lunar Eclipse of 03-04/03/2007 from Hove, Belgium
Telescope: Orion Optics 8" f/4.5 Photo Newton with Celestron MPCC Mount: Losmandy GM-8 Camera: Canon EOS 20D Exposure: 6s at ISO 400 Processing: Photoshop CS2 - Neat Image
Koen van Gorp
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April 2007 Winner - DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing's Finalist - Nick Cook
M63 taken on the 19 & 20 April 07 from Somerset, UK.
48 light frames x 300 seconds, + 25 Darks, + 25 Bias + 15 Flats.
Taken through the primary of my RCX with an AstroPhyiscs 0.75 adapter.
Guided with 80mm APO, using PHD for guiding.
All processing done with ImagesPlus and CS2.
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May 2007 Winner - CCD Imaging & Processing's Finalist - Florent Poiget (Florent.)
Taken by : Florent Poiget, Pithiviers le Vieil, France
Date : May 2007
- Losmandy HGM TITAN / Gemini Goto mount
- Astro Systeme Austria 12" N f/3.8 Astrograph
- SBIG ST-10XME at -25°C
- SBIG CFW-8A
Accessories :
- Astrodon™ 1:1:1 Tru-Balance™ LRGB Filters
Conditions :
- Second Quarter and New Moon
Exposures : (Total : 17h29min. for the Luminance only on 6 nights)
Luminance :
L= (196exp. x 5 min) + (69exp. x 1min.) all in binning 1x1
Color information :
R= G = B = 12 exp. x 5 min. (binning 1x1)
Full resolution crops can be seen at this link :
http://www.poigetdigitalpics.com/M51astrograph.html
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June 2007 Winner - CCD Imaging & Processing's Finalist - PhilG

NGC6888 - The Crescent Nebula in Ha and OIII narrowband color:
Telescope/Mount: Stellarvue SV115 at f5.6 with Televue 0.8 Reducer. Mountain Instruments MI-250 mount.
CCD: SBIG ST2000-XM with Astrodon Ha and OIII filters.
Image Details and Processing: 6-1/2 Hours Ha (Red) and 12 Hours of OIII (Blue) in 30 minute subframes. Captured with CCDSoft and CCD Commander, combined with CCDStack, processed in Photoshop. Synthetic green channel created with Noel Carboni's Astrophotography Tools.
Date and Location: Denver, CO. May 30 - June 9, 2007
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July 2007 Winner - CCD Imaging & Processing's Finalist - hess
NGC4565
19.05.2007
10 Zoll f4,8 Newton
Atik 16HR
Luminanz 25x2min, 9x3min, 4x5min 1x1bin
R/G/B - 8 x 123/167/249 sec. 2x2bin
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August 2007 Winner - Solar System Imaging's Finalist - swalker

Venus recorded in Ultraviolet light over the course of 5 1/2 months. Two telescopes used; a 10" f/5 newtonian, and a 12.5" f/5.1 newt. Cameras used were a Lumenera LU075 and a Imaging Source DMK21AF04. The images span from January 28 2007 through July 16 for the last image. Please click on this link to view the full resolution image: http://masil-astro-imaging.netfirms.com/SWI/UV%20montage%20flat.jpg
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September 2007 Winner - CCD Imaging & Processing's Finalist - EricCCD
IC 1396:
Takahashi FSQ-106 @ f/5
Takahashi EM200 Temma 2 Mount
SBIG STL 6303 Class 1 camera
Astrodon Narrow-band Filters
Software:
Maxim DL
CCD Autopilot
Photoshop CS
SII: 10 hours (20 x 30)
H-alpha: 7 hours (14 x 30)
OIII: 9.5 hours (19 x 30)
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