Astroclassifieds.com Imaging Contest

[BT Technologies]

AWESOME images guys!! Keep them coming!! We will announce the winner by the end of this month!!

For the new-comers or novices, please do not hesitate to post your images too!! The winning image will be based upon other criteria than simply the best looking image.

[EricCCD]

OK, here's mine: M31, the great Galaxy in Andromeda

RGB: 12 x 300 seconds through each filter, binned 1x1
L: 26 x 180 seconds

Acquired, calibrated, combined and preprocessed with MaximDL
Post-processed with Photoshop CS.

Dates data acquired: November 20-22, 2006

Equipment used:
Takahashi FSQ-106 @ f/5
Takahashi EM200 Temma
SBIG STL-6303
Astrodon LRGB filters

Eric

[BT Technologies]

Hello Eric,

This is one of the best M31 imgaes that I have seen yet!! Incredible sharpness and amazing detail right to the corners.

I think I see our next POD!!

Originally Posted by EricCCD

OK, here's mine: M31, the great Galaxy in Andromeda

RGB: 12 x 300 seconds through each filter, binned 1x1
L: 26 x 180 seconds

Acquired, calibrated, combined and preprocessed with MaximDL
Post-processed with Photoshop CS.

Dates data acquired: November 20-22, 2006

Equipment used:
Takahashi FSQ-106 @ f/5
Takahashi EM200 Temma
SBIG STL-6303
Astrodon LRGB filters

Eric

[Bob_riggs]

Originally Posted by Phil/downunder

This is my photo taken from Rockhampton Australia with a STL-11000M on a G11 mount telescope Televue NP 101mm refractor F5.4 O11/HA/O11
30min/30min/30min dark sub. level and cuves in photoshop than crop.
Phil/ downunder

Nice one, Phil! Gave me the "tingles", keep up the good work!

CDS!
Bob

[Bob_riggs]

Originally Posted by BT Technologies

AWESOME images guys!! Keep them coming!! We will announce the winner by the end of this month!!

For the new-comers or novices, please do not hesitate to post your images too!! The winning image will be based upon other criteria than simply the best looking image.

Brian,

I don't envy you and the other judges. When you have astro-imagers the likes of Eric, Zathris, Dietmar, Bud and Phil submitting images of this stunning quality, how are you going to choose? First prize must go to each and all...

CDS!
Bob

[EricCCD]

Originally Posted by BT Technologies

Hello Eric,

This is one of the best M31 imgaes that I have seen yet!! Incredible sharpness and amazing detail right to the corners.

I think I see our next POD!!

Hi Brian,

Thanks a bunch! That made my day!

Eric

[Zathris]

The Hickson44 Galaxy Group imaged Friday night at Upham, New Mexico.

Hickson44 is a group of four gravitationally bound galaxies about 60,000,000 light years from Earth. Members include NGC3193 an elliptical (E0) galaxy mag 10.9, NGC3190 a spiral (Sa) galaxy mag 11.0, NGC3185 a (Sbc) barred spiral galaxy mag 12.2, and NGC3187 a (Sbc) barred spiral galaxy mag 13.1.

L=9x600, R=3x600, G=3x600, B=4x600 Total exposure 3:10

Zathris

[BT Technologies]

VERY nice Zathris!! Please keep the images coming... This is going to be harder than I thought to come up with a "winning" image at the end of the month!!

[Zathris]

Perhaps it’s a matter of comparing apples to oranges. Maybe the imaging contest should be broken into categories. B&W, RGB and narrowband. Or perhaps Nebula, Galaxies and wide field. Or more fairly by equipment class. While my images are getting better, I never post on the Yahoo Sbig Group because the bulk of the images posted there are done by people using Paramount ME mounts and 20" RC’s and STL cameras. My little SCT, G-11 mount and ST8-XE just can’t compete. I do however post images to my local club that rival or beat anything anyone else posts. A year ago I had a 300D and a CG5 mount and my images where not as good as the ones I post now but I enjoyed taking every one.

It would be a shame for fellow astrophotographers to be reluctant to post there images because their equipment can’t compete with some of the better equipped contributors. If that was the issue we can all put our scopes and cameras in the closet and download Hubbell images off the web.

Just my $0.02

Zathris….

[BT Technologies]

I absolutely agree Zathris. This is why the judging will NOT be based soley on image quality but on a variety of other factors.

Originally Posted by Zathris

Perhaps it’s a matter of comparing apples to oranges. Maybe the imaging contest should be broken into categories. B&W, RGB and narrowband. Or perhaps Nebula, Galaxies and wide field. Or more fairly by equipment class. While my images are getting better, I never post on the Yahoo Sbig Group because the bulk of the images posted there are done by people using Paramount ME mounts and 20" RC’s and STL cameras. My little SCT, G-11 mount and ST8-XE just can’t compete. I do however post images to my local club that rival or beat anything anyone else posts. A year ago I had a 300D and a CG5 mount and my images where not as good as the ones I post now but I enjoyed taking every one.

It would be a shame for fellow astrophotographers to be reluctant to post there images because their equipment can’t compete with some of the better equipped contributors. If that was the issue we can all put our scopes and cameras in the closet and download Hubbell images off the web.

Just my $0.02

Zathris….