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[Greg K.]

Welcome to the October 2006 Cloudy Nights Imaging/Sketching contest!

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 the holiday weekend, and will end Sunday, November 26nd at midnight EST.

Here are the entries for October 2006!


MichaelW - Beginning Imaging
M33:
Loc: Washoe Zephyr Observatory
Date/Time: October 14th-25th 2006.
Orion 80mm ED on CGE.
SBIG ST2000XM Astrodon filter set.
R=7x10m;G=7x10m;B=7x10m 210 minutes total data.
No luminance.
Temerature at -15c.

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Rich Handy - sketching forum
Subject: Aristillus and Autolycus Rukl: 12
Date: 10-13-06 Start: 9:15 UT End: 10:50 UT
Lunation: 20.90 days Phase: 277.5 deg Illumination: 56.5%
Colongitude: 164.8 deg Lib. in Lat.: -5 deg 40 min Lib. in Long.: +7 deg 39 min
Seeing: Antoniadi III-IV with 30 seconds of Ant. II every 20 minutes
Weather: Clear early, turning to occasional clouds mid to late during session, 10-15 knot winds late.
Telescope: 12" Meade SCT F10
Binoviewer: W.O. Bino-P with 1.6X Nosepiece.
Eyepieces: W.O. WA 20mm Plossls
Magnification: 244X
Lunation: 18.48 days Phase: 311.1 deg Illumination: 82.9%
Colongitude: 133.7 deg Lib in Lat.: -3 deg 53 min Lib in Long.: +5 deg 12 min
Sketch medium: White and black Conte' Crayons on black textured Strathmore paper.
Sketch size: 18" x 24"

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[paul hart]

Too bad I could only vote for one, they both blew me away.

[Merlin]

Nice work

[skids]

Great image but had to go with the sketch,

Well done both.

[Mizar]

They're both winners as far as I'm concerned. Great job all.

Bill

[Awesomelenny]

I agree. Quite honestly both are just superb. Beginning imaging with results like that are just phenominal. Then the sketch...I can't help but keep looking at it and seeing what patience it must take to do this.

Excellent work.

[Jim D]

Not an easy choice at all - Well done for both!

[Wes James]

Man... you mean I can only vote for one??? You sure you guys couldn't spring forth with 2 T-shirts??? They were both so very good...

[BrentNZ]

Yeah. They both deserve T-shirts !

How can you choose between an apple and a banana ?!?

Brent.

[liedemarie]

It is difficult to choose which one is the better since they are from two different fields of presentation, imaging (ccd) and sketching (drawing). Both are very nice!

[SteelersNation]

Hey Rich, great job. It took me a second to realize I was looking at a sketch and not a photo!

[jconan]

Both are extremely well done, it was hard to pick one!!

[jbrand]

Great image - but I have to go with the scketch.

Jim

[sunnynights]

-This was a hard contest and both are clear "winners." I am voting for the sketch partly because I have "been there" on one of my last tours of the moon and think this is a great example of the value of sketching rather than quickly observing. I'll bet Rich saw far, far more than I did, with greater depth and remembrance.

[square_peg]

What great entrants!

[astrodon]

Congratulations to the entrants for their achievements!
It would be nice to have separate categories for sketching and imaging.
~Don

[sharpstar]

both are all excellent! a bit prefer M33

[badpicker]

I too like M33 better. But the sketch is excellent!

[perseus]

Very hard to compare they are both excellent in different ways. Finaly decided by saying which one would I hang on my wall? got to be the sketch

[Cow Jazz]

After reading the details of the 2 images, I was stunned to see the drawing is 18" x 24"...that's a LOT of work and patience (as if processing the fine M33 image isn't!). Both are stunning images, and I agree that there should be a prize for each catagory for these two winners.

[cometphreak]

Both are excellent. Keep up the good work.