I am pleased to announce the winner of the June 2007 Cloudy Nights Imaging and Sketching Contest - PhilG!
NGC6888 - The Crescent Nebula in Ha and OIII narrowband color:
Telescope/Mount: Stellarvue SV115 at f5.6 with Televue 0.8 Reducer. Mountain Instruments MI-250 mount.
CCD: SBIG ST2000-XM with Astrodon Ha and OIII filters.
Image Details and Processing: 6-1/2 Hours Ha (Red) and 12 Hours of OIII (Blue) in 30 minute subframes. Captured with CCDSoft and CCD Commander, combined with CCDStack, processed in Photoshop. Synthetic green channel created with Noel Carboni's Astrophotography Tools.
Date and Location: Denver, CO. May 30 - June 9, 2007
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 - as you can see by the responses in the poll thread, every one of your submissions is worthy to be a winner. Congratulations to you on a job done very well indeed!
PhilG, 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!