Telescope Reviews: Aug11 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll!

We are very pleased and proud to present the August 2011 CCD Imaging & Processing Semi-Finalists in the Cloudy Nights Imaging/Sketching Contest.

dsnope:

Here is my bi-color narrowband rendition of Pickering's Triangle (NGC6979), a portion of the Veil Nebula Supernova Remnant

Camera: STL11K
Optic: TEC160F
Ha: 11 x 20 mins
O3: 11 x 20 mins

Exposures taken over the first week of August, 2011

HrAstro:

Picture taken on August 26th, 2011.
Location: Petrova gora, Croatia, Europe
SkyWatcher ED120/900, EQ6 SkyScan QHY8, TS OAG9mm, QHY5 guiding camera
Exposure time: 2 segment mozaic , each 8x900sec

Chris.Baron:

Guess it can't hurt to submit this.

9x1800s HA (6nm)
10x1800s OIII (3nm)
7x1800s SII (3nm)
SBIG ST8300
R200SS
Captured with CCDAP, processed in PixInsight and PS .

Cheers,
Chris

Jared:

NGC 6888, the Crescent Nebula
Captured August 28th and 29th, 2011 from Oakland, CA
AT10RCF Ritchey Chretien w/ Astro Physics 27TVPH focal reducer @ f/6.4
FLI ML8300 camera, Astrodon Gen II filters, LRGBHaOIII (60:30:30:30:60:90)
Astro Physics Mach1 GTO mount
Lodestar guide camera and AstroDon Monster MOAG off axis guider
Maxim DL for capture and for calibration, Photoshop CS3 for color combine and post processing

Ha blended into red channel, OIII blended into blue and green channels, Ha applied 60% to luminance channel in "lighten" mode

raxxla:

The "Ghostbusters"
vdb141 reflection nebula in Cepheus

TV NP101is @f/4.4, QHY9, HEQ5Pro, Baader 2" LRGB, SX-USBFW
3.9h LRGB (L:150, R:25, G:25, B:33)
Greece, Grevena, 2011 national star party

SGT500:

Astrotech 8" Ritchey Chretien
SBIG St-8300M + Astrodon LRGB
Orion Atlas Eq-G
R:G:B - 24:40:40 minutes. Unfortunately wasn't able to grab Luminance and Hydrogen alpha.
Imaged from Sarasota Florida. Red/Orange Light pollution zone.

David Rosenthal:

IC1396 The Elephant's Trunk
Hubble Palette
Shot on 8/18, 8/20, 8/23 and 8/30
Ha 16*1200 1X1
[OIII] 12*1200 1X1
[SII] 10*1200 1X1
Takahashi FS-102 @ 8/8
SXV-H9 + SX Wheel + SXOAG & SX ExView Guide Camera
Baader 2" Narrowband Filters
Performance Tuned Atlas EQ-G EQASCOM
MaximDL, RegiStar and PSCS5 with Noel Carboni's Actions

Bill Snyder:

IC1396 Elephant Trunk
SII Ha OIII
SII 4hrs Ha10hrs OIII4hrs
Scope TMB130mm Apogee U8300 CCD

Please note that voting will conclude on September 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 (34 total votes)

dsnope:

9 26%

HrAstro:

3 08%

Chris.Baron:

9 26%

Jared:

0 0%

raxxla:

8 23%

SGT500:

1 02%

David Rosenthal:

1 02%

Bill Snyder:

3 08%