Hello Folks!
The May 2011 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.
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 - zerro1:
The Pelican Nebula
Captured May 24th in Winthrop, WA (blue to black LP)
Camera = QHY8
Telescope = AT65EDQ
Mount = Orion Atlas EQ-G controled with EQMOD
Capture Software = Nebulosity 2.3
Autoguiding with PHD, DSIv1, modded finder scope
calibrated with Flat and Bias frames
Images Plus and CS3
25 X 5 Minutes
CCD Imaging & Processing's Finalist - Oleg Bryzgalov:
The Great Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules
This photo was taken april 2011 in village Khlepcha near Kiev, Ukraine.
Equipment: reflector S&K 200 mm. f/5, Mount WhiteSwan-180, camera QSI-583wsg, Tevevue Paracorr. Off-axis guidecamera Orion SSAG.
RGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
RGB: 16 frames * 5 min. in each filter, bin.1x1
Crop 100%. North up.
Processed Pixinsight and Photoshop CS5.
Solar System Imaging's Finalist - tjensen:
Object: Saturn
Date: 5/29/11
Location: Saxapahaw, NC
Equipment: C14, Flea3, Astronomic filter set, Orion 2x Shorty barlow
Processing: RegiStax, Photoshop, ImagesPlus
Sketching Forum's Finalist - Michael11:
This is my submission of a sketch of M13 - the Great Hercules Cluster. The drawing was made in Negev desert, while I was observing with my 8" Newtonian.
Sky transparancy was excellent (~6.8m), and M13 showed rich detail - including star streaks and dark filaments. Among them the famous "propeller" could be easily spotted (slightly right from the cluster's center in this sketch).
Object: M13 - glubular cluster
Telescope: 8" Orion Skyview pro Newtonian
Eyepiece: 5mm Vixen LVW, at 200X
Time: 6.5.2011 , 24:00
Location: Negev desert, Israel
Inverted graphite pencil sketch on a white paper.
So don't delay! Visit the May 2011 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll and vote for the best of the best!
