Charlie Hein
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I am pleased to announce the winner of the December 2009 Cloudy Nights Imaging and Sketching Contest - CCD Imaging & Processing's Finalist - bill w:
the wizard nebula aka NGC 7380, Sh2-142 in SHO
casting a spell at midnight
FS102@f/6, astrodon 5nm Ha, Oiii, 3nm Sii filters, SX H9 camera.
25x20 min each channel
10/6-11/8/09 Los Alamitos CA. bortle white skies.
callibrated, combined, ddp, color balanced in maxim (balanced the white point on a pillar). microcurve for contrast, light local adaptive filtering and high pass filter applied to Ha in maxim. then to PS for luminance layering of Ha, adjustments to saturation and lightness. gradient removal in the Oiii channel. JPM's star removal action was used to adjust the star color: pink HST stars were replaced by more tradditional stars from a bicolor image.
Sii and Oiii distributions seemed to form complimentary subsets of the HA, with Sii highlighting the pillars and Oiii surrounding the central star. Besides the pillars, there seem to be areas of strong Sii concentration in the wizard's mouth (spell?) and inside one of the wider pillars
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!
bill w, 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!
Charlie
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M111
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Great job, Bill. Congrats!
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reddog15
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Way to go Bill Really sweet 
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bill w
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wooot, a T-shirt at last
thank you everyone
great shots this month
your star trails were spectacular M111
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-bill w
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lunartic65
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Stunning shot Bill, many congrats. 
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Great Image Bill Great Detail and stars process eceptional
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A very good shot, Bill.
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markseibold
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Bill
Congratulations on your win with your most beautiful photographic imaging of the Wizard Nebula.
I noticed you mentioned the T-shirt. Do they really send us these for winning? I have won three times but never got the t-shirt. I have questioned it before but to no avail.
Thanks for any info from anyone,
Mark
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M111
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I won the August contest. Just received my shirt 2 weeks ago.
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Brendan
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reddog15
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Quote:
I won the August contest. Just received my shirt 2 weeks ago.
Nothing like speedy deliery 
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Charlie Hein
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There have evidently been some issues with the T-shirts, but Mike is handling it personally now so I expect things will get better. Mark, I wish you had followed up with me, I assumed that since our last discussion you were all set. I'll point Mike in your direction.
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Absolutely beautiful. Who needs the Hubble? 
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Dang!! That's a good one!! You most definitely deserve the prize!!!! 
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bill w
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thanks for the comments
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-bill w
nexstar 8 GPS
canon 300D, Toucam Pro II
SXV-H9C, H9, SX Exview autoguider, SX-AO
FS 102 (OLV), FS60 CSV, 8" LX200R, G 11
http://astro.whwiii.net/
image processing monitor calibrated to just differentiate darkest boxes:
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Warhen
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Beautiful job Bill. The depth and dimension are astounding. You have some very nice shots on the site, especially liked the planetaries!
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NICE! Great job.
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