You are not logged in. [Login] Entrance · Main Index · Search · New user · Who's Online FAQ · Calendar Astrophotography and Sketching >> Astro Imaging/Sketching Contest Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | (show all) Charlie Hein Postmaster Reged: 11/02/03 Loc: 26.06.08N, +80.23.08W Re: Gallery of Imaging/Sketching Contest Winners! [Re: Charlie Hein]       #4926668 - 11/20/11 06:34 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   October 2011 Winner - CCD Imaging & Processing's Finalist - raxxla: Cepheus/vdb149-150 + Ldn1235 Tele Vue NP101is, QHY9m CCD, Baader 2" LRGB filters, SX-USBFW automated filter wheel. Skywatcher HEQ5Pro mount. Autoguiding with QHY5 cam + good 20 year old 60mm refractor Autofocus with TV focusmate driver + focusmaster . LRGB shot of 6.8 hours as follows: L:27x10m R:9x5m G:9x5m B:9x6.5m Scale 25% of original size plus a few pixels crop to downsize to 800x600. Location : Tsoukalades / Lefkada Island /Greece Thank you for looking! Post Extras:       Charlie Hein Postmaster Reged: 11/02/03 Loc: 26.06.08N, +80.23.08W Re: Gallery of Imaging/Sketching Contest Winners! [Re: Charlie Hein]       #4970896 - 12/17/11 11:27 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   November 2011 Winner - Solar System Imaging's Finalist - Mike Phillips: Location: Swift Creek, NC USA Time: November, 8, 2011 - 0254 UTC Optics: Akule = Custom 356mm (14" Zambuto) f/4.5 Newtonian 5x TeleVue Powermate at f/26 / 9,315mm EFL, Secondary Mirror Antares 3.5 1/30wave Mount: Celestron CGE on JMI Wheely bars Camera: Point Grey Research Flea3 - FL3-FW-03S1M (monochrome) Filters: True Tek Supraslim Color Filter Wheel with Astronomik RGB TYP II Capture: Lenovo W500 (Aquila) using Anthony Wesley's custom Coriander v2.0 - with Anthony Wesley's focuser and CFW scripts Processing: Ninox -> Registax -> AstraImage -> Iris -> Gimp Post Extras:       Charlie Hein Postmaster Reged: 11/02/03 Loc: 26.06.08N, +80.23.08W Re: Gallery of Imaging/Sketching Contest Winners! [Re: Charlie Hein]       #5030717 - 01/21/12 03:40 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   December 2011 Winner - CCD Imaging & Processing's finalist - avdhoeven: Here is my contribution for this month. It's an image of the Elephant Trunk Nebula. Images were obtained in the last 5 months during several nights. Equipment used: ED80/SXV-H9 The following data was used: 20x1800s Ha 8x1800s OIII 8x1800s S2 Images were made from HI-Ambacht in The Netherlands. The full scale image can be found here... Post Extras:       Charlie Hein Postmaster Reged: 11/02/03 Loc: 26.06.08N, +80.23.08W Re: Gallery of Imaging/Sketching Contest Winners! [Re: Charlie Hein]       #5078220 - 02/18/12 09:29 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   January 2012 Winner - Sketching Forum's Finalist - markseibold: After careful plans to observe, photograph and sketch the total lunar Eclipse of Dec 10th 2011 in the Portland city center, fog formed late, so plans to relocate were rushed at the last minutes as we drove fast from the city to the Columbia River Gorge Crown Point Oregon Vista House, yet to find a hundred people, photographers, etc, most were ensconced in their cars with engines running, while Gorge east winds gusted to 60 mph with 25 degrees F. So I set up my Celestron Nexstar 5i telescope anyway, huddled into the wind-shielded side of the Vista House with a few brave other photographers. I made quick mental notes of the image at medium power through the telescope and began to photograph crudely as the wind buffeted the scope and my Sony NEX5 camera poised high and teetering on its tripod over the telescope eyepiece. I made a few photographs for reference and some visual mental observations and notes were taken. I have possibly observed over two dozen total eclipses to date since my mid teens years; photographing perhaps a dozen of those events but this was the first sketch. I noted the very slight turquoise-blue fringe on the sunlit edge just after totality, as they predicted and rendered it slightly to the sketch. Much in post preparation was then later made in the past week at home to produce this accurate large technical documentary dry pastel sketch onto 19" X 25" black Strathmore pastel paper completed today, December 19th 2011. As the foreground ambience seemed as partly visual and incidental to the whole scene, I decided to add in the nostalgic gas street lamps that slightly reflected the Vista House behind, also slightly showing the moons image on its windows and the streetlight lantern glass, causing several repeated reverse reflections. -Mark Seibold Post Extras:       Charlie Hein Postmaster Reged: 11/02/03 Loc: 26.06.08N, +80.23.08W Re: Gallery of Imaging/Sketching Contest Winners! [Re: Charlie Hein]       #5126607 - 03/17/12 07:11 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   February 2012 Winner - Solar System Imaging's Finalist - Lsummers: Mars, February 27, 2012 at 4:30ut Dover, Delaware Custom 14" Newt @f/33 Lumenera Skynyx 2.0M Astrodon E-series RGB filters Post Extras:       Charlie Hein Postmaster Reged: 11/02/03 Loc: 26.06.08N, +80.23.08W Re: Gallery of Imaging/Sketching Contest Winners! [Re: Charlie Hein]       #5182984 - 04/21/12 10:45 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   March 2012 Winner - Film Astrophotography's Finalist - Nightfly: Orion's Sword Click on Image for larger view Date: March 12, 2012 Photographer: James Cormier Equipment: Pentax Spotmatic II 35mm SLR with 300mm f/4 SMC Takumar wide open. Camera piggybacked on Meade 2080 SCT. Tracking: Manually corrected via illuminated reticle eyepiece and drive corrector. Sensor: Kodak GA 100-7 ISO 100 chemical based sensor (one time use) Exposure: 30 minutes (continuous) Sky Quality: SQM 21.4 mags/sq arc sec. Mag limit 6.7 + at zenith Location: Flanders Pond Observatory, East Sullivan, Maine Post Extras:       Charlie Hein Postmaster Reged: 11/02/03 Loc: 26.06.08N, +80.23.08W Re: Gallery of Imaging/Sketching Contest Winners! [Re: Charlie Hein]       #5227853 - 05/18/12 06:39 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   April 2012 Winner - Solar System Imaging's Finalist - alfas: click to view larger image Celestron C8 Skywatcher Heq5-Pro The Imaging Source DBK21AU618.AS Televue 5x powermate and Meade 2x shorty barlow AutoStakkert! 2 Taken from Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil on March 9, 2012. Post Extras:       Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | (show all) Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Extra information 0 registered and 1 anonymous users are browsing this forum. 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