Hello Folks!
The January 2010 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll is now open!
The winning sketch or image in this contest will be posted to the front page of the Cloudy Nights Website for the whole world to see and admire. More importantly, your vote could help the winner score the highly coveted Cloudy Nights T-Shirt!
You may ask - how good are these guys? Well, see for yourself - here is the list of this month's finalists with their work:
Beginning Imaging's Finalist - afrancis:
Leo Triplet
Jan 2010
Central PA
Takahashi TSA 102 at f/8
G-11 Mount
SBIG ST-2000XCM
32 x 10 min
Calibrated in DSS
Processed in PS
Film Astrophotography's Finalist - Nightfly:
Orion rises over the pink granite of Schoodic Point, Acadia National Park, Maine. Scene was illuminated by the light of the Gibbous Moon.
Tech Specs:
Camera: Pentax 67 with SMC 55mm f/4 @ f/11, tripod mounted
Film: Kodak E200
Exposure: 30 minutes
DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing's Finalist - jmasin:
~7hrs of M42.
Nikon D300, IS0800, 5 minute subs
Orion 8" Newt, operating at F/5.6 with Paracorr
Data collected over 3 nights in December
Processing in IP, CS3
CCD Imaging & Processing's Finalist - jacobb:
Kind regards
Jacob Bassøe
Copenhagen, Denmark
Takahashi FSQ-85
QSI583wsg, Lodestar
EQ6pro
Baader Ha, OIII and SII filters
Solar System Imaging's Finalist - Bart Declercq:
Sinus Iridium
Taken 2010-01-26 19h05UT
Haaltert, Belgium
N 50.885°, E 4.014°
DMK41AF @ 15fps
GSO 30cm F/5 @ F/23
Astronomik Green filter
This is a new "setup", I've had the telescope for years as a Dobson, but I've now purchased a new mount ("Mesu-mount", a Dutch design) which allows me to use it equatorially mounted. This was taken on the first clear night after installation on the mount, the seeing was fair to good.
Sketching Forum's Finalist - Jef De Wit:
Crater Maurolycus was an excellent object to sketch with a small refractor. I worked on a grater scale than I'm used to (20x20cm). It makes it more easy to put small features on paper. But on the other side, it makes it more difficult to keep on eye on the total sketch. So are the small craters (in crater Maurolycus) drawn to small and not allways on the right possition. The smallest of the craters is only 6 km big! I thinks that's not bad for a small telescope (7cm). This is my most beautiful moonsketch yet.
Crater Maurolycus, 23/12/2009, 17.30-18.30 UT, ETX-70 @ x150, scanned and mirrored, eyepiece-sketch (no processing)
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So don't delay! Visit the January 2010 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll and vote for the best of the best!
