Telescope Reviews: Oct09 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll!

We are very pleased and proud to present the October 2009 Solar System Imaging Semi-Finalists in the Imaging/Sketching Contest.

RedIrocZ-28:

2 Panel Lunar Mosaic of Alphonsus-Arzachel-Alpetragius-Thebit

Orion XT10 Dob on EQ platform.
Philips ToUcam840k coupled with 2x Celestron Ultima Barlow and 2x Celestron Shorty lens screwed into the ToUcam adapter.
2- 3 minute captures @ 5fps in B/W
Registax v3
0900UT-0906UT 10/11/2009 from Grandville, MI, USA
-Brad Carlson

sunrutas:

My submission to this months contest will be reprocessed avi files from this Jupiter season, that I made a short GIF animation from.

It shows Jupiters moon Io, as it begins crossing the planets surface.

It is a composition of 15 files, processed in Registax, Vdub and Photoshop Elements.

The avi´s are shot with a Vixen ED100SF and a Tis DBK 21 camera.

DaemonGPF:

Colorized Moon - Captured 10/25/09
Nexstar 4SE, Meade LPI, Orion .5x FR, Astronomik IR filter.
100 subs x .001 sec x 3 panels
Stitched and Saturated in Photoshop 7

Mike Phillips:

My LCROSS PRE-Impact image. I got clouded out for the actual event a mere 20-30 minutes after this image was taken. My C8i mount died days earlier and so the C8i OTA is on top my CGE mount. I saw the clouds rolling in and grabbed this final shot while the kids and I watched on nasa.tv under the clouds.

Rest of details are:

Ubuntu 9.04 Linux and custom coriander on Lenovo T61
8" Celestron C8i SCT on the Celestron CGE mount
Lymax Cat Cooler
DMK 21AF04
2.5x PowerMate
Astronomik LRGB filters (Red used)
True Tek Color Filter Wheel with visu diag

HANTO:

A favourable libration helped to capture the lunar south pole in September, with the LCROSS impact site beeing visible too (dark area in the arrows prolongation).

Instruments: 8-in Newton, DMK41AU04.AS, Baader Flat-Field-Converter barlow, Losmandy G11.

zAmbonii:

Mosaic of 28 images Taken with a Celestron C6-N + 3x barlow, SPC900NC webcam. Best 250 frames stacked for each panel.

Please note that voting will conclude on November 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 (15 total votes)

RedIrocZ-28:

1 06%

sunrutas:

3 20%

DaemonGPF:

0 0%

Mike Phillips:

2 13%

HANTO:

7 46%

zAmbonii:

2 13%

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Weston CSC: