Telescope Reviews: May Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll

Welcome to the May 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.

This poll will remain open through Friday, May 16th

Here are the entries for May 2006!

CCD Forum Winner:
EricCCD
Equipment:
Takahashi FSQ-106 @ f/8 with Extender-Q
Takahashi EM200 Temma-2 mount
SBIG ST-8XE camera with CFW-8a filter wheel
Astrodon LRGB filters

L: 18 x 10 minutes (3 hours) binned 1 x 1
R: 12 x 5 minutes (1 hour) binned 2 x 2
G: 12 x 5 minutes (1 hour) binned 2 x 2
B: 12 x 5 minutes (1 hour) binned 2 x 2

Total exposure time: 6 hours

Sketching Forum Winner:

Jeremy Perez
Subject: M13/NGC 6205
Date: May 25, 2006
Time: 05:30 UT
Location: Anderson Mesa, Arizona
Seeing: 3-4/10 Pickering
Transparency: Mag. 6.8 NELM
Telescope: Orion SkyView Pro 6LT (6" f/8 Equatorial Newtonian)
Eyepieces: 10 mm Plössl (120X Magnification/24 arc minute TFOV)
Sketching Materials: White 28# text weight paper, HB and 2H mechanical pencils, blending stump

Beginning Imaging Forum Winner:
2020BC
Subject: NGC 3372 Eta Carina and the Keyhole Nebula
Camera: Canon 350D (unmodified) Prime Focus
Scope: Unguided Meade LXD-75 SN-8 f/4
Exposure: 46 x 30secs, ISO 1600, Noise Reduction On.
Field: 30 arcMins wide (approx.)
Location: Canberra, Australia 26Mar06 (1100-1300hrs) UTC
Processing: Aligned and stacked in MaxDSLR. Processed in ImageReady. Composited core.

Solar System Imaging Forum Winner:
richard bosman:
Saturn 2006/4/1
280 mm SCT
3x TV barlow
Astronomik IrRGB filters
ATK-2HS

2020BC
DSLR Forum Winner:
Subject: Omega Centauri (NGC 5139)
Camera: Canon 350D (unmodified) Prime Focus. Mirror lock enabled.
Scope: Unguided Meade LXD-75 SN-8 f/4. Baader MPCC Coma Corrector.
Exposure: 5 x 30secs, ISO 800, Noise Reduction On.
Field: 45 arcMins wide (approx.) Cropped to 1600x1200 then reduced to 800x600.
Location: Canberra, Australia 29May06 (1200-1300hrs) UTC
Processing: Aligned and flat-bias callibration in MaxDSLR. Histogram, crop, reduce and sharpen in Imageready.

2020BC (Beginning Imaging Forum Winner)
Users may choose only one (33 total votes)

5 points

12 36%

4 points

12 36%

3 points

8 24%

2 points

1 03%

1 point

0 0%

Jeremy Perez (Sketching Forum Winner)
Users may choose only one (31 total votes)

5 points

13 41%

4 points

12 38%

3 points

2 06%

2 points

2 06%

1 point

2 06%

EricCCD (CCD Forum Winner)
Users may choose only one (31 total votes)

5 points

3 09%

4 points

14 45%

3 points

11 35%

2 points

2 06%

1 point

1 03%

Solar System Imaging Forum Winner
Users may choose only one (33 total votes)

5 points

18 54%

4 points

12 36%

3 points

0 0%

2 points

2 06%

1 point

1 03%

2020BC (DSLR Forum Winner)
Users may choose only one (33 total votes)

5 points

15 45%

4 points

12 36%

3 points

2 06%

2 points

0 0%

1 point

4 12%