Telescope Reviews: March Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll

Welcome to the first monthly Cloudy Nights Imaging/Sketching contest!

Each month the best images selected from the individual Cloudy Nights Imagnig and Sketching forums will be presented for the userbase to vote on. The monthly winner receives a Cloudy Nights t-shirt!

Please take a moment to rate each of the following images on a scale from 1 to 5. At the conclusion of the poll, the total of all ratings for each entry will be tabulated, and the the entry with the highest overall rating will be chosen as the winner of the Challenge.

Here are the entries for March 2006!

Sketching forum winner:

NGC 2174-5
Name: Eric Graff
Location: Cuyamaca Mts., San Diego Co., CA
Date: 25 February 2006, 03:00-03:30 UT
Telescope: 6" f/6 Parks Astrolite Newtonian Reflector
Barlow: None
EP: 20mm Parks Gold Series Plössl (45x; 69.6' FoV)
Filter: Lumicon UHC Filter
Medium: Pencil (#2) and ink on 100# index card, inverted and colorized in MS Picture It!

DSLR Forum Winner

Michael Hernandez
NGC2237
Mapped in the Hubble Palette
several nights in DEC2005 and JAN2006
SII_HA_OIII map
FSQ106N
ParamountMe unguided
Canon 20D

Solar System Imaging Forum Winner

David Rivas:
C8 SCT at f/34
Color Raw mode ToUcam II(Ir Blocked)
500 frames stacked and processed through ImagesPlus.

Eric Graff - Sketching
Users may choose only one (84 total votes)

5 Points

31 36%

4 Points

33 39%

3 Points

14 16%

2 Points

2 02%

1 Point

2 02%

No Points

2 02%

Michael Hernandez - DSLR
Users may choose only one (84 total votes)

5 Points

48 57%

4 Points

27 32%

3 Points

6 07%

2 Points

3 03%

1 Point

0 0%

No Points

0 0%

David Rivas - Solar System
Users may choose only one (86 total votes)

5 Points

38 44%

4 Points

27 31%

3 Points

19 22%

2 Points

1 01%

1 Point

0 0%

No Points

1 01%