Telescope Reviews: Mar08 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll!

Welcome to the March 2008 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 April 15th at midnight EDT.

Here are the entries for March!

Beginning Imaging's Finalist - Jim McGee:

Horsehead Nebula (IC434, B33)

41 x 600 second subs, ZS 80 ED II, DSI Pro II with Razorback cooler, Ha filter, CGE mount, guided.

Captured and processed in MaximDL (dark and flat calibration, deconvolution) and Photoshop (final resizing and histogram adjustment).

Images taken between the 9th and 13 of March, 2008.

Film Astrophotography's Finalist - RALF_T:

It´s -as you can see- M65 and M66. It´s a couple of shots, one with Kodak TP, hypersensitized, and a Fuji SHG 200. Both exposured for 40 minutes. Telescope was a 12"-Newtonian with 1,620 mm fl.

DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing's Finalist - soreneck:

M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy
Capture date: March 30, 2008
Scope: WO FLT 110 (TMB) @ f/7
Mount: HEQ5 Pro unguided
Camera: modified Canon 350, ISO800
Exposure: 84 minutes, 28x180sec lights, 10 darks, 20 flats, 10 flat-darks
Conditions: average seeing, average transparency, moderate light pollution
Processing: stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PS CS2

CCD Imaging & Processing's Finalist - Jim Lafferty:

IC 443, the Jellyfish Nebula, a galactic supernova remnant approx 5,000 light years distant in the constellation Gemini. Imaged over 4 nights on Jan 12-13-14-15, 2008, with my FSQ106N and ST2000xm (Astrodon Filters) riding on a Takahashi NJP. 200 minutes of Ha was used for the luminance, 100 mins of SII for the red channel, 200 min of Ha for the green channel, and 100 mins OIII used for the blue channel (all unbinned, 20 min subs). Total exposure was 6.6 hours.

Solar System Imaging's Finalist - HANTO:

Saturn, Feb/19/2008, 23:03 UT with storm in the STrZ.
Image is an an LRGB using the green channel as luminance and 1,25x of original size.
Good seeing conditions.
Camera: DMK21AF04.AS with Astronomik RGB filters.
Instrument: 8-in Newtonian @ f/29.

Sketching Forum's Finalist - Jeff Young:

M81
Sketch HB pencil on 160gm cartridge paper. Scanned and inverted in Photoshop. Scanner dropped the outer shading, so it had to be added back in using Photoshop.

Good Luck to all our finalists!

Which Image is our Winner?
Users may choose only one (619 total votes)

Beginning Imaging's Finalist - Jim McGee:

116 18%

Film Astrophotography's Finalist - RALF_T:

13 02%

DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing's Finalist - soreneck:

41 06%

CCD Imaging & Processing's Finalist - Jim Lafferty:

206 33%

Solar System Imaging's Finalist - HANTO:

174 28%

Sketching Forum's Finalist - Jeff Young:

69 11%

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