Charlie Hein
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Overview:
Welcome to the Cloudy Nights Monthly Challenge Imaging Competition in CCD Imaging & Processing Forum:
This competition is intended to be a fun way for you to improve your imaging abilities and a way for you to see many new images with a variety of equipment. All imagers are welcome and encouraged to enter.
Each month a single object will be selected for the competition by the winner from 2 months previous. Having a one month delay allows voting and selection of the next object and will give a full month's time for entries.
The winner of each competition gets to choose the next object and their image will be included in the Hall of Fame message thread. There are no other prizes.
Please include your imaging details such as location, date, telescope, guiding, exposure time, etc with your submission.
Rules:
1. Have fun! Support other contestants and be polite with your comments.
2. All entries must be captured within the same imaging season. For example, if the December target is the Orion Nebula, you must use images taken during the current winter, not any other year.
3. Image size is limited to 800x800 pixels and 100k in size.
4. Any equipment is allowed to be used in the images including rental equipment; with the only exception of DSLR, since we have another forum specifically for DSLR.
5. All image taking and processing must be done by your team, including equipment setup.
6. Each person may submit only 1 entry per month. However, you may edit your submission and replace the image with a newer one if you wish using the Edit function.
7. Winners will be selected by forum members, the one which receives the highest number of vote will be the winner.
Please submit your image in this thread, comment can be made in the same thread as well.
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RBA
professor emeritus
Reged: 02/03/08
Posts: 531
Loc: Sunnyvale, CA
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Hmmm... Maybe I should've chosen M45 or M42?? 
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DeepSkyColors.com
Henry Coe State Park, CA
EM400 + FSQ106EDX + C9.25 + STL11K + Canon 40D mod. + patience and coffee
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john gretchen
professor emeritus
Reged: 02/02/08
Posts: 597
Loc: 28° 24' 30" N 96° 37' 53" W
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I have an entry ready to post, waiting to see if I can get another go at the pair.
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John N. Gretchen III
Astro-Tech 8" f/8 Ritchey-Chrétien astrograph
Intes-Micro M73 (7" F3 custom astrograph)
Astro-Tech 80mm f/7 ED triplet
Celestron CI-700 Mount w/Gemini
QHY8 ST2000XM
http://www.tisd.net/~jng3/observatory
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Ozy
Vendor - Starizona
Reged: 06/15/07
Posts: 803
Loc: Goodyear, AZ
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My longer FL scope isn't ready for these targets, and shooting them with the FSQ will be silly!
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Cuttin' Edge Observatory
Used Finderscope - Canon Elan - Kodachrome 200
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cvedeler
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 12/20/05
Posts: 2161
Loc: Scottsdale, AZ
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To small for my scope to do them justice.
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Chris Vedeler
Astro-Physics 160EDF
Astro-Physics 900GTO
Q453HR / QHY8 CCD camera
Canon 450XSi
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www.aznightsky.com
Scottsdale, AZ
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RBA
professor emeritus
Reged: 02/03/08
Posts: 531
Loc: Sunnyvale, CA
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Ah c'mon... NGC 672 is just a bit smaller than M104. I haven't done this pair yet but I did M104 with the FSQ and the extender and while it wasn't a killer image by all means, it was acceptable.
I'm working on a mosaic and I need the last session this month to get it done, otherwise I'd give it a shot with the FSQ - but definitely with the extender - that's 800mm FL which is probably the minimum these objects deserve. Nobody here with a 800mm or longer focal length scope? 
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DeepSkyColors.com
Henry Coe State Park, CA
EM400 + FSQ106EDX + C9.25 + STL11K + Canon 40D mod. + patience and coffee
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hewholooks
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 05/31/08
Posts: 1682
Loc: Central Ohio
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I did them last year with my DSLR, but that was another lifetime.
Can I just relabel it and enter the image?? 
http://hwilson.zenfolio.com/galaxies/h39ee32ed#h39ee32ed
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Hunter Wilson| Lexington, Ohio
My Image Galleries
Celestron 9.25
APM/TMB 130/780 Apo Refractor
Orion ED80
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L USM Lens
SBIG ST-4000XCM
Astro-Physics Mach1GTO
Skyshed POD
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fetoma
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 09/26/06
Posts: 1094
Loc: NW Ohio
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Hunter,
Given your improved skills and a different camera, I'd like to see you give it another try with your CCD camera!!!
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Frank in NW Ohio
Vixen CF VC200L and R200SS
Meade SN-10
Celestron 9.25" SCT
Meade 8" f/6.3 SCT
Intes-Micro M73
Stellarvue 80/480 LOMO Triplet
Takahashi FS-60C
Celestron CGE
QHY8 and SXV-H16
www.jerseydevilastronomy.com
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hewholooks
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 05/31/08
Posts: 1682
Loc: Central Ohio
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Not a chance, Frank. Have you seen our Ohio weather forecast for the rest of the month??
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Hunter,
Given your improved skills and a different camera, I'd like to see you give it another try with your CCD camera!!!
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Hunter Wilson| Lexington, Ohio
My Image Galleries
Celestron 9.25
APM/TMB 130/780 Apo Refractor
Orion ED80
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L USM Lens
SBIG ST-4000XCM
Astro-Physics Mach1GTO
Skyshed POD
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fetoma
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 09/26/06
Posts: 1094
Loc: NW Ohio
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Unfortunately I have. Know why the bad weather? I just took delivery of an Intes Micro M73 astrograph today. Sorry! 
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Frank in NW Ohio
Vixen CF VC200L and R200SS
Meade SN-10
Celestron 9.25" SCT
Meade 8" f/6.3 SCT
Intes-Micro M73
Stellarvue 80/480 LOMO Triplet
Takahashi FS-60C
Celestron CGE
QHY8 and SXV-H16
www.jerseydevilastronomy.com
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Stathis
super member
Reged: 10/05/07
Posts: 171
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I am awaiting to buy a long FL scope for galaxy work to replace my C9.25 which has a lot of vignetting, so i am shooting with the ED80 this month and i don't think the ED80 and QHY8 will give a good result at those galaxies.
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http://stathisastro.blogspot.com/
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Chris.Baron
sage
Reged: 12/17/06
Posts: 479
Loc: Oakville Ontario Canada
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I foresee voting on this month's challenge being incredibly easy, or particularly difficult
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Stellarvue SV90TBV
SBIG ST-2000XM + CFW10
Celestron 9.25 XLT
Orion Sirius EQ-G
38mm,26mm Q70
Televue 19,15 Panoptic
Pentax 10mm XW
2.5x Powermate
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john gretchen
professor emeritus
Reged: 02/02/08
Posts: 597
Loc: 28° 24' 30" N 96° 37' 53" W
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6x5 minutes st2000mx & at8rc lum
24x5 minutes qhy8 & at8rc rgb
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John N. Gretchen III
Astro-Tech 8" f/8 Ritchey-Chrétien astrograph
Intes-Micro M73 (7" F3 custom astrograph)
Astro-Tech 80mm f/7 ED triplet
Celestron CI-700 Mount w/Gemini
QHY8 ST2000XM
http://www.tisd.net/~jng3/observatory
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DeanS
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 07/12/05
Posts: 949
Loc: Nicholasville, Kentucky
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Ok, I finally got out last night for the first time in a couple months, didn't have a chance to do much on last months object.
This is only a Black and White version, it shows more details than my LRGB. Had a lot of fog last night which made if difficult to process the RGB with bad background colors. I really need to either learn how to deal with this, or move to darker skies
Taken with TOA-150, F/7.3, 1095mm F/L, SXV-H9, image scale of 1.22 arcsec/pix, guided with SX guide head thru MMOAG, on AP1200 mount.
19 x 5 min Lum 1x1, sigma combined MaxIm, finished in CS2.
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AP1200GTO AP900GTO
TOA-150 Tak E160
C9.25 Tak FS60C
SXV-H9 ST2000XM STV
8" LX200GPS
Meade 12" Lightbridge
Moonlite Focusers
www.doghouseastronomy.com
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HHastro
sage
Reged: 05/22/07
Posts: 243
Loc: Germany, City of Hamburg
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Takahashi E 200 Astrograph, 8", f-4, 800mm.
ST10ME with CFW8, L-10 x 8 min.(1x1 binning), RGB-4 x 5 min. (2x2 binning)
Taken: 09/16/2009, expos. starts from 0.39 a.m.
Loc.: 50 mls. south of Hamburg (Germany)
CCDSoft (imaging), MaximDSLR (processing and stacking), Fitswork and PS-CS2 for final processing.
Bruno
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Meade 12" ACF with GEG f-6.5, 2000mm,
TAK e200 f-4, 800mm, 4" Genesis f-5,
Canon EOS 20 Da, EOS 350 D (both modded)
ST10XM w/CFW8, guidecam at GEG: ST2000XM
Mount: Mauz Mam 100.
Edited by HHastro (10/27/09 06:50 PM)
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Tomvictor
professor emeritus
Reged: 08/09/04
Posts: 509
Loc: N.59.11.47. Norway
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Hi all, here is my entry.
Meade 10" ACF @f/7 on EM-200
Artemis 4021 w/Astrodon
L:8x600.
RGB: 5x600 bin 2x2.
Ha: 5x600 bin 2x2
Hope you like it
edit: added 5 Ha-exposures.
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Tom Victor
http://www.ccd-astrophoto.com/
Takahashi EM-200 - 10" LX200ACF - Artemis 4021M - Mini Borg 60ED - FLI CFW - DSI PRO II. Canon EF200L f/2.8 - 450D - Baader mod. 350D.
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Oldfield
Postmaster
Reged: 03/20/02
Posts: 5816
Loc: Hong Kong
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Contest closed.
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The Home Astronomer from a city where most people are proud of the light pollution
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