Just an Idea - but since Mars has been the planet of choice lately......

[h0ughy]

Hi People ,

Just an Idea - but since Mars has been the planet of choice lately and several people have been posting their mars images on the site, why not have a poll vote as to the best image for this opposition!

The contenders have had several images posted on the site. I myself cannot even imagine to get anywhere near the quality of those guys, so my level of appreciation and admiration for their achievements is high. So What do you think?

[bird]

I'd suggest that we look for the biggest improvement from each individual - i.e. judge their early images against their latest and greatest, and whoever has shown the biggest improvement in their images & technique gets an honourary award :-)

There's so much variation on equipment and seeing conditions amongst everyone that it doesn't seem right to try and compare them together across the board...

$0.02

Bird

[iceman]

I agree with Anthony, otherwise it could end up like the snake valley planetary contest.. there was always going to be just one winner with a fantastic shot like that :)

Finding 2 images to compare is hard though, because I could easily choose some poor ones in bad seeing and then my best in excellent seeing and say "look at this! choose me!" :)

It's a good idea though, there's been fantastic progression from some of the guys.

[davidpretorius]

asimov for mine!!!!

[h0ughy]

Yes Mike and Anthony that sounds like a great idea, a start of season shot and a end of season shot.

[bird]

How about if we use the images that have already been posted to the IIS forums? Maybe Mike can write a script that'll extract and show all the images from each person in chronological order, - should make it fairly easy to see who has improved the most...

Bird

[davidpretorius]

mr mojo?????

scriptaholic!!!!!!

I think the boys have been talking about this for a while on how to extract the images from the forum

[Robert_T]

As I've only been around IIS for a few weeks you guys are fortunate not to have seen some of my early season first attempts at Mars - I wouldn't have to deliberately select something blurred and smeary cos they all looked like that ;) - the better ones from early-on look a bit like a bloated cattle tick...:)


cheers,

[asimov]

:confuse3: Not a bad idea! Theres a lot of guys here that have achieved/learnt a lot in a short period of time. :) I'll be doing a 'worst to best' collage for mars soon in any case for myself to look back on in the years to come. The same with saturn/jupiter/venus.

[RB]

Great idea Asi.

[iceman]

Yeh I think that's probably the best way to do it, because most people don't post their junky images when the seeing was really bad. And seeing more than just 2 images (start of season/end of season) you'll get a feel for the progression as the seeing will have fluctuated over the course of their images.

I don't image it will be that difficult to write the script to do it, i'll start giving it some though about how it can be displayed.