Telescope Reviews: Sep07 CN Imaging-Sketching Contest Poll!

Welcome to the September 2007 Cloudy Nights Imaging/Sketching Contest poll!

Each month the best images selected from the individual Cloudy Nights Imaging and Sketching forums will be presented for the userbase to vote on. The monthly winner receives the coveted Cloudy Nights t-shirt! At the conclusion of the poll, the entry with the highest total will be the winner of the contest..

Please choose your favorite out of all the images. This poll will remain open through October 15th at midnight EST.

Here are the entries for September!

Beginning Imaging's Finalist - Zyxlor:

Detail in IC 1805.
Taken with Tak TSA102 and SBIG ST-10. Guided with Celestron ED80 and DSI Pro II.
9, 10 minute subs through an Ha filter aquired with MaximDL.
Color added to monochrome in PSCS3 then monochrome added back in as luminence.

Film Astrophotography's Finalist - AstroBobo:

Pleiades and California Nebula - medium format Pentax 6x7, 150mm Pentax Takumar lens @ f/5.6, 20 minutes on Kodak E200. Taken from Petrova Gora, Croatia - the mist came at the end of the exposure and produced nice halos around brighter stars.

DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing's Finalist - Mike B.:

Click the image for a 2307x1438 enlargement (647K) or click here to see the mosaic at full size (4614x2875, 2119KB.)

Andromeda Galaxy 3-Panel Mosaic

Name: Mike Broussard
Location: Maurice, LA
Dates: Sept 11th, 15th & 22nd, 2007
Telescope: Meade 8" f/4 Schmidt-Newtonian w/MPCC
Camera: Hutech Modified Canon 350XT w/IDAS-LPS Front Filter
Mount: Atlas EQ-G w/EQMOD and EQMOSAIC
Guiding: 102mm F/5 Achro, 2x Barlow, DSI Pro, PHD Guiding
Exposure: 42x180 sec core, 54x180 sec left side, 37x180 sec right side @ ISO 1600
Processing: IRIS, Registar, PS, Gradient XTerminator, Neat Image & Noel Carboni's Astronomy Tools

CCD Imaging & Processing's Finalist - EricCCD:

IC 1396:

Takahashi FSQ-106 @ f/5
Takahashi EM200 Temma 2 Mount
SBIG STL 6303 Class 1 camera
Astrodon Narrow-band Filters

Software:
Maxim DL
CCD Autopilot
Photoshop CS

SII: 10 hours (20 x 30)
H-alpha: 7 hours (14 x 30)
OIII: 9.5 hours (19 x 30)

Solar System Imaging's Finalist - rumples riot:

Jupiter,

taken from Blackwood, South Australia,
Scope: Peltier cooled C14
Mount: CGE
Camera: Skynyx 2-0
Barlow: TV 2x barlow.
Astronmiks RGB filters
3 September 2007 at 1005UT
35 seconds per channel
500 odd frames per channel in final stack.

Sketching Forum's Finalist - Myles:

Pencil on sketch paper at the eyepiece, pastel on black sketch paper indoors, Adobe Photo Elements 5 for the digital mod.

Good Luck to all our finalists!

Which Image is our winner?
Users may choose only one (610 total votes)

Beginning Imaging's Finalist - Zyxlor:

55 09%

Film Astrophotography's Finalist - AstroBobo:

80 13%

DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing's Finalist - Mike B.:

127 20%

CCD Imaging & Processing's Finalist - EricCCD:

179 29%

Solar System Imaging's Finalist - rumples riot:

131 21%

Sketching Forum's Finalist - Myles: