Hello Folks!
The July 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:
My submission is an Image of the Andromeda Galaxy. This was captured using two different imaging systems.
Camera 1 = QHY9
12 X 10 minutes using an AT65EDQ on an LXD75 mount Autoguided with PHD/DSI1/9X50 finder/guider. Calibrated and stacked using PixInsight. Post Processing in CS3.
Camera 2 = QHY8
27 X 10 minutes using an AT66ED on an Atlas EQ-G mount Autoguided with PHD/SSAG/9X50 finder/guider. Calibrated and stacked in Images Plus. Post Processing in CS3.
Both sets of Data were captured just outside Winthrop Washington July 22, 23, 24.
Combined using CS3
DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing's Finalist - WayneJ:
Here's my first entry in this category. M13 taken 3 days past the full moon.
230x30s @ ISO800, unfiltered
C14 @ f/7, unguided on a CGE Pro
Self-modded Canon 500d (astrodon)
Captured in BackyardEOS, stacked in DSS, processed in Nebulosity 2 and finished in Phootshop CS4
CCD Imaging & Processing's Finalist - Oleg Bryzgalov:
"Ghost nebula" in Cepheus (Sh2-136, vdb-141)
This picture was photographed on July 6-8, 2011 in the Crimea (Ukraine) during the festival of amateur astronomy, "Southern Nights 2011" (600 m above sea level)
Equipment: reflector S&D 254 mm. f/4.7 (New carbon tube!), Mount WhiteSwan-180, camera QSI-583wsg, Tevevue Paracorr. Off-axis guidecamera Orion SSAG.
RGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L: 20x600 sec., RGB: 10x600 sec. each filter, all unbinned.
Processed Pixinsight and Photoshop CS5.
Center crop, size 50%
Oleg Bryzgalov, Ukraine.
Solar System Imaging's Finalist - Hillbrad:
Here is the re-sampled version of the Io transit.
Taken with C14, 2x Ultima Barlow, Orion Filter Wheel, and flea3
7-26-11 10:29UTC
So don't delay! Visit the July 2011 CN Imaging/Sketching Contest Poll and vote for the best of the best!
