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Oldfield
Postmaster
Reged: 03/20/02
Posts: 5816
Loc: Hong Kong
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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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The Home Astronomer from a city where most people are proud of the light pollution
Toys: Orion 100ED, Ranger with NGF-CM, SM40/BF10, TG-SP II, LXD55, DMK 31AF03, Canon 10x30 IS...
My observation log and ideas My General Blog
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Gus_Smedstad
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 07/02/06
Posts: 1146
Loc: Boston 42° 16' N 71° 08' W
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Oh boy. A contest for something I've actually captured!
Orion 1000mm f/4.9 Newtonian
QHY8
22 x 10 minutes
Captured 10/20/2009
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Gus Smedstad image gallery
Orion Atlas 8 EQ-G
Celestron Onyx 80EDF (guiding / widefields).
Orion Starshoot Autoguider
QHY8
Philips SPC900NC
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HHastro
sage
Reged: 05/22/07
Posts: 242
Loc: Germany, City of Hamburg
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M 33, Takahashi E 200, ST10ME, CFW8 (Astronomik-Filters),
guided with 12"ACF and GEG/ST2000.
9/19/09, 50 mls. south of Hamburg.
L-8x8min.(1x1 binning), RGB-each 4x5min.(2x2 binning).
MaximDSLR, Fitswork, PS-CS2.
Thank you: 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 (11/09/09 04:37 PM)
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Jim Chung
sage
Reged: 12/07/05
Posts: 203
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My submission:
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Canon 20D wo IR filter, QSI532, SX Lodestar ccds
Vixen Great Polaris DX with Meade LXD motors and 497 GOTO
AstroPhysics 400 GTO
AstroPhysics 105mm Traveler
Vixen white C8 SCT!
Skywatcher 12" Collapsible Dob with Autostar GOTO
PST 80 mm aperture project .....
(must stop buying more astro gear!)
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AlanT
sage
Reged: 08/20/07
Posts: 487
Loc: 122º36' W, 47º37' N, WA USA
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My last try at M33
Taken August 2009 from the Olympic National Park in the Pacific Northwest.
12 x 5 minute exposures with a
ST-2000xcm on Meade 80mm apo on a
CG-5 guided with DSI/50mm finder via PHD
Proc: DSS, PixInsight, & Photoshop
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al
Meade 80mm APO
Celestron 6" SCT
CGE, GM-8, & CG-5 GT
ST-2000xcm, DSI Pro II, DSI Pro
( www.alberts-astro.com/astro )
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lineman_16735
Tak-o-holic
Reged: 12/04/04
Posts: 2604
Loc: Central PA
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Tak TSA at F/8
L 600sx12
RGB 600sx4 each
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Chris
A mount from Illinois
A scope from Japan
A camera from Cal-I-Fornia
A dog from Kentucky
A wife and kids from the "Twilight Zone"
The Geek Shed
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Jared
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 10/11/05
Posts: 2534
Loc: Piedmont, California, U.S.
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Oldfield, would you be kind enough to replace my previous entry? This new version is cropped and sharpened differently (for best presentation in this contest, hopefully) (did it  ).. (Thank You  )...
M33 captured from Mill Valley, CA on September 26th/27th
Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO; SBIG STL-11000M; LZOS 152 Apochromat @ f/8
Seventy minutes luminosity; sixty minutes H-alpha; thirty minutes each RG&B
Captured in Equinox Image; data reduction and deconvolution in Maxim DL; post processing in Photoshop CS3
That's not noise in the arms. It's just JPG compression and... "My God, it's full of stars!"
Edited by Jared (11/20/09 01:50 PM)
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DeanS
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 07/12/05
Posts: 947
Loc: Nicholasville, Kentucky
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I finally have some clear skies to enter agian. This was done over the last 2 nights under poor transparency. And the jpg compression added noise that I worked so hard to clean up. Oh well.
Epsilon 160, ST2000XM, Astrondon filters, AP900GTO
125:60:60:60
25 x 5 min lum 1x1
15 x 4 min ea RGB 2x2
Maxim, 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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Bill V
Hutman
Reged: 08/26/08
Posts: 997
Loc: Plymouth,Ma
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FS102@ F6 on G11, SBIG ST2000xm,astrodon filters&IDAS LPS
Taken 11/17&18 in Plymouth Ma LRGB 18,6,6,6 x600s
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FS 102
G11 Gemini
ST2000xm
CFW9
Astrodon LRGB filters
http://www.xembracetodayx.com/Hutman
Edited by Bill V (11/23/09 06:37 PM)
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john gretchen
professor emeritus
Reged: 02/02/08
Posts: 596
Loc: 28° 24' 30" N 96° 37' 53" W
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Captured 11/18/2009
24x5 minutes
Intes-Micro M73 and QHY8
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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: 947
Loc: Nicholasville, Kentucky
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Again some nice images! Interesting to see how the HA can show nice details in those regions. Might try to add some to mine if we get any clear skies over the next few days.
Next months object will be much more difficult as it is extremly small compared to this one.
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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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