2012 David Malin Awards

[anthony.tony]

Hello its Come around Again -The David Malin Awards-Tony

[anthony.tony]

I'll just Add This -Entry Forms Etc. http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/astrofest/DMA/

[iceman]

Looking forward to it!

[h0ughy]

ah well i just registered so i should get a login soon:question: - mind you though i need a entry:sadeyes:...... and photons have been very very scarce these past 12 months:help:.

I can see lots of Etas, rosettes, orions being entered :rofl: maybe a comet or two;) and some luny work:P but i have to say its been a difficult year:(

[iceman]

There'll be lots of comet lovejoys, and no doubt lots of venus transits too.

[h0ughy]

oh yeah forgot thats on the 6th june

[Paul Haese]

Yep planned on this for a while in Ha, might be going far north yet just to get this recorded.

[iceman]

A further announcement about the David Malin Awards -


What a great prize!

[anthony.tony]

Remember even if you don't Win the Grand prize These Canon 60Da's will Be sold in camera stores at a Good price .Very Affordable for The average Astronomer. -- Tony.

[anthony.tony]

http://www.teds.com.au/digital-slr-cameras?manufacturer=11 -Checkout Teds Camera Store in Stock 60Da -Other stores Might be Cheaper . Great pricing for the Average Bear- Tony

[iceman]

Only a few days left to enter!

Entries close this Friday.

Wow, that's come around quick. I'd better get my butt into gear!

[iceman]

Done for another year - finally submitted my entries.
I'd hoped to have been able to enter more Symmetry shots, but just never got/made the opportunity to plan and take some shots.

The widefield and solar system sections are going to be extremely well contested this year no doubt, with loads of celestial events to choose from..

- total lunar eclipse
- comet lovejoy
- transit of venus

plus the exponentially growing lot of widefield milkyway and nightscape photography type shots by some very talented people.

I can't wait to see the winners!

[Octane]

The symmetry section is going to be choc full of reflection images. It would take something outright spectacular to win this one -- a hard subject.

Didn't submit anything this year -- nothing to submit!

H

[strongmanmike]

As long it has a tree in it or multiple repeats of a planet you're home and hose :lol:

[Adelastro1]

Yes I agree it's a hard subject! Been racking my brains trying to work out what to put in... I don't have much time left though!

[anthony.tony]

Come on just 5.5 hours to Go. --Tony

[h0ughy]

well i am fleeced - sent my entry in just in time

[strongmanmike]

:clap:

In with a solid chance there Dave :thumbsup:

[Paul Haese]

Damn I forgot the tree in the foreground of Sol and Venus.:doh:

[strongmanmike]

David is 70 now so may not notice...you could still be ok....:P

[anthony.tony]

Over The Next 2 Weeks The Judging will Be Done.A 2 Week Wait or Longer for That Confirmation Email.Remember even if You Don't win the 60Da in The Grand Prize You can Save up and Buy One for about $1670.00 in Australia.If you save up and buy something you usually Appreciate it more -All the Greef you go through saving those bucks up.If someone gives you something you might not Value it as Much. Tony

[Paul Haese]

Tony it is actually a really cool top prize given this is an astronomy competition, maybe in later years you guys could approach FLI, SBIG or even QSI about having one of their cameras as a prize and Canon still presenting this camera as a prize.

edit. I think this prize is better than prize money. So top idea.

[anthony.tony]

I know I was Only after a Bite.The beauty of the 60Da is you can still take daytime images Then Jam it on the back of a Telescope and Do Astroimaging with it or a lens and do widefield shots.They probably won't Produce a lot of them so to own one would be a Buzz.We had to wait a long time From the 20Da to the 60Da.-Tony.

[Adelastro1]

Got mine in with payment with 13 minutes to spare! Phew. Late thanks to a busy week and getting sick!
The 60Da would be great to win, with an adaptor to put my Nikon lenses on! :P The little pocket Canon IXUS I won in the comp last year is great and I think I value it more having won it in this comp. I say to people when I show them to camera - "I won that!"
Good luck everyone!

[Paul Haese]

So we find out tonight. Just got an email from John letting us know that people will be notified late on tonight if we have won an award.

[h0ughy]

for those that are going can there be some posting of the results and happy snaps? Unfortunately i cant be there, or my Daughter, though i wished i could!!

[Adelastro1]

I'll try and do what I did last year and post the winners names with my trusty iPhone! :P Fingers crossed there's good net coverage again!

[Paul Haese]

Me too I'll I phone as many results through as I can. Between the pair of us we should be able to cover the event Wayne.

[Adelastro1]

Haha yes you would hope so! We'll be like the reporters and the paparazzi at the Oscars!

[h0ughy]

great stuff - i will be up to my elbows with octogenarians so will be sneaking away to see whats happening

[strongmanmike]

Go Nyngan! ;)

[Paul Haese]

Papazzi have arrived in Parkes after an 11.5 hour drive. Stay tuned for tomorrow night

[h0ughy]

epic drive - thats about the time i take for travelling to duckadang;)

[strongmanmike]

Good luck tonight everyone, have a nice time :family:...I'm not jealous at all, nup, no, not me..never, honest :)

Mike

[anthony.tony]

We have pic of John Sarkissian and Nick lomb-A pic of Dr. Lisa Harvey Smith her The Ska has a Home talk- Terry Lovejoy's Presentation. Tony

[anthony.tony]

A few more pics of Lisa Harvey Smith's talk on the SKA. This morning.

[Garyh]

Ah have fun everyone! Look forwards to seeing the results come through!
Would have been good to get there but we have all been sick over the last few weeks.
Would be awesome to get a live feed! :thumbsup:

[anthony.tony]

The first two pics are of Terry Lovejoys Comet Hunting Talk--The reast of the Pics are of Dr Marta Burgay "The Double Pulsar and The Sardinia Radio Dish talk,

[anthony.tony]

The Mayor of Parkes Ken Keith presents Medalions to 3 Of our guest speakers -A group shot of the mayor and Committee Members and guest Speakers-The last wo pics are of Nick lomb "The Transit of Venus Talk"-- Tony

[h0ughy]

thanks Tony - now what do some of them mean? ;)

any results yet

[Adelastro1]

The awards are about to start!

[h0ughy]

great news - so the earlier photos from tony are of what?

[Garyh]

Oh still exciting from here! can`t wait!

[Adelastro1]

The conference during the day Houghy

[Paul Haese]

The animations
Hm
Greg priestly
Alex churney x 2
David hough
Phil hart

Winner
Colin Legg

[h0ughy]

oh bugger but i am in good company

[Adelastro1]

Deep sky winner:
Metin Pugh IC 5067 nebula

HMs:
Martin Pugh
Jason Jennings
Phil Hart
Martin Pugh again and News Editirs pick (separate judges)

[Paul Haese]

Wide field
HM
Zane hammond
Gary hill
Mike salway
Greg. Bradley
Stephen mudge

Winner
Alex churney

[Paul Haese]

Symmetry
HM
Alex churney
Richard tonello
Geoff wyatt
Graham kelaher
Wayne england

Winner
Trent mcdougall

[Adelastro1]

Junior
Nathan Coleman Centaurus A

HMs:
Stephanie Hough Super moon cruise
Nathan Coleman carina nebula and news editors pick

[Garyh]

Congrads to everyone so far!

[Adelastro1]

Solar high res
Winner
Peter Ward transit close up


HM
Paul Haese venus transit disk
Anthony Wesley Jupiter
Peter Ward Venus transit disk
Paul Haese solar cycle 24 news editors award

[Paul Haese]

Wide field solar system

HM
Geoff Sims
Phil hart
Wayne England

Winner
Phil hart

[Paul Haese]

Overall
Phil hart

[Adelastro1]

Overall winner of news editors award
Alex Cherney

[Adelastro1]

PS I won the news Editirs award for this category. Woohoo!

[iceman]

Well done to all the award winners!

I was pleased to get a mention. I can't wait to see all the winners images.

[h0ughy]

same here - but it is a first for me - father and daughter HM's:lol::thumbsup:

congratulations to all the winners

[Forgey]

Congrats to all!

[Paul Haese]

I also picked up a news editors award for my cycle 24 solar image. Happy with that.

Was a great night. Great to finally meet a few guys and nice to catch up with friends.

[strongmanmike]

Well Done Phil :thumbsup: if anyone ever deserved to win the overall prize it is you, so many years of getting so close...you have finally cracked the big one, I think we can safely say now that you are the king or the David Malin Awards :clap:

Well done to everyone else too (too many to mention) :thumbsup:

One worth a big mention though!...Houghy, I believe you are the first Father-Daughter combo to both win Honorable mentiones, hearty congratulations to you both!! and how worth it was it now, to travel that 1200km and blow a radiator..??? :)

Appears like I got close yet so far in the Deep Sky category :sadeyes:, 3 Highly Commended in the same category, something about each of of them just didn't make the cut huh?...no room left by the Pugh ;) :lol: oh well next year.....

Congratulations everyone :thumbsup:

Mike

[anthony.tony]

A great Night Saw a Lot of Brillaint Images By Mike -The Animations were Briiliant.Every Year The images get better. Tony

[anthony.tony]

I can,t Remember the Names But here are some winners Tony

[spacezebra]

Congrats to all, yes bring on the images....

Cheers Petra d.

[Quark]

Heartiest congratulation to all winners, looking forward to seeing the images.

Regards
Trevor

[hotspur]

So pleased for your great success in DMA StephenM-well done mate!:thumbsup::) Look forward to viewing all the entries.Congrats to all the other IIS members that did well:thumbsup:

[marc4darkskies]

Well done Phil and hearty congratulations to all the winners!!!
:party2:

Cheers, Marcus

[Garyh]

Congrats again everyone, ex Phil , a well deserved win!:party2:

[anthony.tony]

Some more pics from The Presentations Last night --Tony

[Phil Hart]

thanks all. it was great to be in parkes again amongst such talented and friendly company. congrats to all and your various awards, mentions and commendations.. all of it very fine work. there is of course some irony for me in winning the award with an image taken closer to home and at a more civilised hour than (almost) any other entry i've ever submitted. but of course from david's judging perspective that is not entirely a random outcome.

the whole event is a great credit to the organisers and all involved. being at the centre of australian radio astronomy is always interesting.. this time i enjoyed hearing from and chatting to Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith, the scientist who prepared our bid, about the science and politics of the SKA site selecton. fascinating stuff, if a touch depressing too.

and i had to chuckle when i arrived at 'the dish' at 10:30pm on friday night.. i only needed one guess to figure that the only other car in the far corner of the car park would of course be alex cherney, who i shortly found chatting to john sarkissian waiting for the rain to clear! we had fun both friday and saturday nights making the best of the fickle weather trying to image the morning conjunction around the dish. on saturday night, alex went straight from the awards while i opted for two hours sleep first. i'm not sure which of us can blame the other for the clouds, sucker holes and fleeting gaps but it's always more fun with company. here's one very quick result (http://philhart.com/content/conjunction-dish) from friday night/saturday morning.

and while you might think the winner should not have any quibbles with the judging (and of course i don't ;)), i do have to finish by noting that david thought my beautiful takahashi epsilon diffraction spikes were a star filter applied in photoshop! ye gods! :lol:

look forward to seeing many of you again at the eclipse!

Phil

[strongmanmike]

Really..?? :question:

Long live fast Newts and diffraction spikes :lol:

Congrats again Phil :thumbsup:

Mike

[Peter Ward]

Just got back to the big smoke after a very enjoyable night at the Malin Awards. It was great to see some old faces again and meet new winners for the first time.

I suspect there was a stuff-up in some entry names, the White light Venus transit image I submitted was not selected by David for an HM, the image he picked was my H-alpha version! Can't complain, a Win, HM and HC is pretty cool :)

Congrats to Phil :thumbsup:... seems my suspicions were correct :)

A BIG thank-you needs to go out to the tireless John Sarkissian, CWAS, and Canon Australia for being such a fantastic sponsor.

[Martin Pugh]

Just back also.

Well done all those who got placed and mentioned and hats off to Phil.

Martin

[stevous67]

Wow, great efforts to you all. A very high calibre group, and congratulations Phil for achieving this momentous award. To Alex, I know you and Phil go to the most extreme lengths to create what you do, and following that, you superbly process your data. Well Done indeed!!! :2thumbs: :party2:

Steve

[anthony.tony]

Had a couple of Telescopes set up this morning at The dish-But Clouds Put an end to it .Got a Bit of a look at the sun later in the afternoon.John gave a Good talk on the Dish and The research work it has been doing over the Years. Tony

[Paul Haese]

Just got back to Adelaide. Wow big trip, great company though, a great chance to catch with the guys I know from here and meet people face to face for the first time. Great to catch up with John and many thanks to David Malin for spending some time with me and provide me with some invaluable insight. Thanks to the supporters of the event and all the organisers too. Excellent night.

Congrats to all those awarded and a special congrats to Phil. Well done. :thumbsup:

[colinmlegg]

Well done all, and to Phil for taking the prize with such a ripper image. Bummed i couldn't make the night...work sent me to the other side of the Earth. Maybe next year? Looking forward to seeing all the images.

Ps. And thanks to Paul and Wayne for blogging the results.

[anthony.tony]

A few more shots -.:lol::eyepop::rofl::screwy:

[Adelastro1]

Not been home long either after a 12 hour drive (the company could have been better though Paul :-P ). No, most enjoyable trip. Having someone to talk to along the way certainly made it seem to go faster, and Paul and I discussed lots I can tell you!

Thanks once again to the organisers, John Sarkissian, David, the CWAS, and Canon. And well done to Phil, all the winners, HMs, commendations, editor's choice winners and everyone that entered. There were a record number of entrants this year but slightly down on entries however. This was my third trip over in a row but the first to the conference during the day and it was great as well with interesting talks. One of the highlights of the trip was meeting Terry Lovejoy, and his father Keith, after photographing 'his' comet last Xmas and receiving a HM with one. Both great to talk to and Terry's talk about modern comet detecting methods was fascinating. And of course another highlight was talking to the best imagers in the country and picking up a many tips and ideas after sharing knowledge. I'm inspired now to go out and take some more shots! That's what I like about events like this - it helps motivate you to do better and better.

I hope Alex got some sleep this morning - I left him imaging at the dish at 2am last night after the awards! I learned quite a bit in the short time imaging alongside him which was great. I'm soooo envious of his equipment! Thanks Alex for letting me use your light and super duper tripod too!

Until next year...

[venus]

Congratulations all, some amazing trophies too!

[StephenM]

Hi all,
I'm back in Brisbane too, after a great weekend in Parkes. My first experience of these awards, and it was great to put faces to names and meet lots of the photographers whose work I've admired over the last few years! Well done to all the other winners, and especially to Phil for the overall award! And of course thanks to John Sarkissian and the organising committee, and all the sponsors.

Cheers,
Stephen

[StephenM]

Thanks Chris!

Cheers,
Stephen

[gregbradley]

Results of the 2012 CWAS "David Malin Awards" (http://mail.yahoo.com/)





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Hello all,

Last night, during the 2012 CWAS AstroFest dinner, the recipients of this year's "David Malin Awards" were announced. In the next few days, pictures of the event will be posted on the web along with the winning astrophotographs.

Congratulations to Phil Hart and to all the award recipients. The following are the results for the 2012 CWAS "David Malin Awards".

HM=Honourable Mention
HC= Highly Commended


OVERALL WINNER: Phil Hart - "Melbourne Moon"
---------------------------


Deep Sky
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Winner: Martin Pugh - "IC5067"

HM: Martin Pugh - "Eastern Veil Nebula"
HM: Martin Pugh - "Vela SNR (Portion)"
HM: Phil Hart - "Pleiades"
HM: Jason Jennings - "Night Market"

HC: Jason Jennings - "Smoking Pipe Nebula"
HC: Michael Sidonio - "Hubble's Rose"
HC: Michael Sidonio - "Orion's Sword"
HC: Michael Sidonio - "The Tangled Web of Argo Navis"
HC: Steven Mohr - "M16 - The Eagle's Pillars of Creation"
HC: Steven Mohr - "NGC 6744 - A Milky Way"


Wide-Field
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Winner: Alex Cherney - "Speared Emu'

HM: Greg Bradley - "The Blue Horsehead to Rho Ophiuchi"
HM: Mike Salway - "Road to the Milky Way"
HM: Gary Hill - "Antares Region"
HM: Stephen Mudge - "Star Trails over Lake Wivenhoe"
HM: Zane Hammond - "Pinnacles Desert Starscape 1"

HC: Phil Hart - "Dunnottar Castle"
HC: Phil Hart - "Glenmaggie Star Trail"
HC: Russell Cockman - "Majestic Crux to Carina"
HC: Mike Salway - "Finding the Way Home"
HC: Wayne England - "Swamp Archway"


Solar System - Hires
-----------------------------

Winner: Peter Ward - "King of Pain"

HM: Anthony Wesley - "Jupiter from Exmouth WA, 30th August 2010"
HM: Peter Ward - "Venus Transit in white light"
HM: Paul Haese - "The Transit of Venus"
HM: Paul Haese - "Cycle 24"

HC: Paul Haese - "Mars"
HC: Stefan Buda - "Sunset At Herschel Crater"
HC: Stefan Buda - "Two Minutes of Venus Transit"
HC: Peter Ward - "Tricolor transit"
HC: Troy Tranter - "Saturn's Super Storm"


Solar System - Wide-Field
------------------------------------

Winner: Phil Hart - "Melbourne Moon"

HM: Wayne England - "Santa's Sleigh Trail!"
HM: Phil Hart - "Lovejoy's Tail"
HM: Geoff Sims - "Totality over Tikahana Motu"

HC: Phil Hart - "Sunrise Transit"
HC: Geoffrey Wyatt - "Super moonrise"
HC: Wayne England - "Comet Lovejoy Swamp Reflections"
HC: Denis Crute - "Moontrail"



Theme - Symmetries
-----------------------------

Winner: Trent McDougall - "Partially Lunar over Luna"

HM: Wayne England - "Moonlight Reflections"
HM: Grahame Kelaher - "Bright Night"
HM: Geoffrey Wyatt - "Equinoctial Twins"
HM: Richard Tonello - "Emu Crossing"
HM: Alex Cherney - "Crown Jewels above Lake Tekapo"

HC: Broderick Matthews - "Moon Rise Over Uluru"
HC: Grahame Kelaher - "Perth Skyline, Moon and Juipter"
HC: Alex Cherney - "Sky Lake"


Junior
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Winner: Nathan Coleman - "NGC 5128: Centaurus A"

HM: Stephanie Hough - "Super Moon Cruise"
HM: Nathan Coleman - "NGC 3372 - The Great Nebula in Carina"

HC: Lachlan Mabbutt - "Star party star trail"
HC: Lachlan Mabbutt - "Christmas eclipse"
HC: Lachlan Mabbutt - "Backyard star trails"


Animations
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Winner: Colin Legg - "Nocturnal"

HM: Phil Hart - "The Venus and Jupiter Show"
HM: David Hough - "Transit of Venus in White Light and Hydrogen Alpha from Nyngan"
HM: Greg Priestley - "Comet Lovejoy Time-lapse"
HM: Alex Cherney - "Starlit Silhouettes"
HM: Alex Cherney - "Red Aurora Australis"



Regards, John Sarkissian
2012 CWAS "David Malin Awards"




Greg Bradley.

[stardust steve]

Congrats to all the winners and to those with mentions, distinctions.:thumbsup:

[Peter Ward]

My personal take on the 2012 event is here (http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/CWAS2012a.html)

[h0ughy]

lov the VR image Peter - my son thinks it rocks:thumbsup:

[Peter Ward]

:lol: Nuts! ...should have used it for a wide field entry :)

Not sure what to take away from the awards this year.

David went to some lenghts to state it was visual impact...eg strong graphic elements... that you can just as easily capture with say, a DSLR, rather than a mega-CCD, was what he was looking for.

The standard, well, gets better every year. I was particularly impressed with Colin Legg's work.

By the way...anyone know what next year's open theme will be??

[h0ughy]

DM knows ;)

[Adelastro1]

John Sarkissian spoke to a group of us at night's end and we asked when next year's theme category would be announced. He said please send him any suggestions. He has no idea at this stage and I'm sure David doesn't either! John thought of this year's theme. He hopes to announce it by about October at the latest.

[anthony.tony]

Some images from Lisa Smith Great talk on Sat. At Astrofest --Tony

[StephenM]

Hi all,

The winning images are now up on the website:

http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/astrofest/awards/2012_AstroFest_DMA.html

Cheers,
Stephen

[h0ughy]

???? where are the animated sequences?:question:

[trent_julie]

John just emailed and the animated sequences should be up tomorrow
Trent

[h0ughy]

ok

[Adelastro1]

John just emailed to say the David Malin Awards images are on today's Melbourne Herald Sun's (some symmetry there!!) front webpage. The link to the gallery direct is below.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/pictures/gallery-e6frf94x-1226429150263?page=1

[Adelastro1]

And the exhibition tour dates are up too! Great to see it coming to the SA Museum for the first time. I commented to John that having them in the basement of the RiAus wasn't the best for numbers of people coming through to see it (only 700 apparently) so the museum should increase that to thousands, especially since the tour dates are in School holidays! Also great to see it going to Perth and Cairns.

[Derek Klepp]

Thanks for this Tony thats my Auntys name (Dorothea Tom) on the OAM board in the background I'd forgotten all about it.

[CometGuy]

Thank you Tony and Peter for posting the Pic's and well done to all the David Malin entrents.

Dad and I had a great time and it was good to finally meet some of you guys in person!

Terry

[Phil Hart]

to deal with the endless stream of media enquiries (actually, just one so far :P), i've put up a post with some more details of the melbourne moonrise image:

http://philhart.com/content/melbourne-moon-2012-david-malin-awards

i heard from john sarkissian that geoffrey wyatt spent two years trying for his moon image last year. if so, that's quite an effort! i certainly don't claim as such for mine.

seeing all the images on a real monitor now rather than the parkes projector certainly brings them out in greater glory. i think the winners in each category are all well deserved..

my personal favourite is probably peter wards high res venus transit.. stunning details and striking composition and of course very different to any other year. i don't plan to take up high-res imaging anytime soon but the transit images were all impressive and i thought a venus transit might be a chance for the overall award this year.. sorry guys :rolleyes:.

Colin Legg's video is something else.. look at the quality of this, including sequences combining five cameras into one high res view of the sky!? http://vimeo.com/45856570

alex' widefield lovejoy and [anything] by martin pugh both great winning images, and trent's symmetry image very impressive now.. my view on the night was a little confused by david's crop and pan as he presented them quite quickly. alex' lake tekapo is pretty striking too and not surprisingly the photo editor's choice. so that leaves me with not much to disagree about ;)!

Phil

[Paul Haese]

Yeah a few people had thought that too. I did get a bit hopeful after David called out my name for one image and then let me go back to my seat as he had told Alex to remain seated for his two HM's. It was the editors choice that put my image up into the position behind the winning entry for hi res. Oh well next time. ;)

Not sure of the value of the editors choice though. Are those being published?

[strongmanmike]

Have to agree with you Phil re Peters Sol and Venus, I recon you were pretty lucky :whistle: but considering your consitency and diversity in this contest over the years, you deserved to win on that alone :thumbsup:

Interesting to see the full entry pool, the total number of images entered was less than I expected (169) and Deep Sky remains the most competitive category with 3 times as many images entered compared to Solar System.

Mike

[gregbradley]

With the deep sky category attracting the far greatest numbers of entries I suggest that the Deep Sky category be broken down into Galaxies, Nebulae, Globulars and Narrowband.

Especially considering the techniques and approaches for each of these is somewhat different.

This then gives the competition a broader appeal and balance and keeps its astronomy roots firmly intact.

It could even solicit an additional sponsor who sells telescopes/CCD cams/mounts.

The Ice in Space calendar shows a good balance of different types of astro shots as a good example.

Greg.

[Peter Ward]

Deep sky with David is tough...and was asked by David which image I would have picked.

The answer was "none of the above" (sorry Phil..but hey...so what :)) and suggested Martin's M81...which didn't even make the cut...but it's David's call, and if you don't like that, don't enter.

That said...I'm very chuffed at David's response (according to the Sun-Herald) to my "King of pain" image ie: "What the heck is that!?"

As I've said earlier...any image that makes you want to cross a room and take a closer look has to tick a few boxes.:thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

So how did you know what all the entries were at that stage..?

[Adelastro1]

Well said Phil. The comp has given me inspiration to go out and take some more images after seeing what everyone has done.



They've been published on the Herald Sun website and here (http://www.news.com.au/national/melbourne-moon-lights-up-astronomy-awards/story-fndo4eg9-1226428436254) so far so I presume they may be on similar sites and web articles and hopefully magazines.

[Peter Ward]

I didn't & probably never will know.

At the awards night I had asked Martin, prior to talking to David, whether he entered that particular M81 image. He said he had.

And the rest as they say is history...

[Paul Haese]

No those are some of the DM winners, the editors choice images are not published on that site.

[Phil Hart]

in my experience journos and media are a law unto themselves and there's no predicting what they will do, even if they have promised one thing something else will happen an hour later! i think they have too many images and don't know what to do with such a rich choice. it may be that other journos have access to the full set of winners and editors picks and may run with different choices? fingers crossed..

[Adelastro1]

Yeh I know but they do have Alex's overall editor's choice winner on that site. At least they were listed on the Herald sun site along all the other winners.

[bratislav]

The links to "next image" are broken in many (all) categories ? I can see only 6 images under Deep Sky before my Chrome freezes and spits the dummy. Same on my iPhone. IE doesn't even go past the first image.
Do web designers actually test those pages using variety of browsers, or "it works for me" is the final test ?
I just can't understand the obsession with "latest technology" (or is this "most complex technology") in creating simple web pages that are supposed to show few dozen pictures. If it is complex, it will break.

[Phil Hart]

Herald Sun had an online gallery today which included most of the pics..

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/pictures/gallery-e6frf94x-1226429150263?page=6

Phil

[anthony.tony]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120719.html -- Check Out the Astronomy Picture of The Day -Here are some images of The Canon Rep.Giving Out The Prizes on Saturday Night -Tony

[Adelastro1]

John Sarkissian sent through these couple of links from the Sydney Morning Herald about Phil's win (first one) and the winners (2nd). You got some nice publicity there Phil! The gallery got some of the details incorrect - eg. alex's comet photo won the widefield, not a runner up. Typical media...

In today's "Sydney Morning Herald":

http://www.smh.com.au/national/amateur-photographer-stars-with-outofthisworld-image-20120719-22d4l.html

http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/entertainment/art-and-design/astrofest-2012-20120719-22d9w.html

[iceman]

They used my image in this one:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/amateur-photographer-stars-with-outofthisworld-image-20120719-22d4l.html

Even though I didn't get the editor's pick. :)

It's great to see the coverage the awards are getting in the national media though - well done John and the whole team.

[iceman]

Photo of the paper attached.

[Paul Haese]

None of my shots made the Sydney morning herald. Even in their gallery. Like I said editors choice!

[StephenM]

I did get the editor's pick for widefield :(...oh well, well done Mike!

Cheers,
Stephen

[Peter Ward]

John Sarkissian has done a great job in promoting the comp yet again.

The Herald Sun and now Sydney Morning Herald and The Melbourne Age.

Fantastic job John!

[Adelastro1]

Yes he certainly did. Both Paul and I have been contacted by the Adelaide Advertiser for an article too! I just did a telephone interview and the article on us two SA winners will probably appear in the paper early next week.

[gary]

Well done Mike.

I was waiting in the local cafe this evening, opened the SMH and there on
page 3 was your magnificient image. :thumbsup:

I read the byline and I said to myself, "I know that guy".

[strongmanmike]

Enjoy the limelight guys :thumbsup:...just watch for the paparazzi, they will be hiding in the salt bush if you are swimming at the beach :camera: :scared3:

Mike

[bratislav]

Well, the links are fixed now! And I'm glad they are ...
The standards for all entries are just about stratospheric! I reckon at least a dozen entries (if not more) from deep sky could rightfully have won the award . Well done guys, can't believe how quickly the standards of Australian astrophotography reached truly world class. From now on I think David might just as well toss a coin :)

[colinmlegg]

The video guys aren't getting much love :sadeyes:

[h0ughy]

thats pretty true - i think since its been up only 5 people have viewed mine:question:

[multiweb]

Nah... I think your work is outstanding and so do a lot of other people. Very different.

[clive milne]

Just gotta say... Anthony's Jupiter is simply superb.

[strongmanmike]

How many video sequence entries were there all up? Surely not just the five on the CWAS page...? All great jobs though...especially that Nyngan Venus Transit that should have won I say, harumph! :question: :P

Mike

[colinmlegg]

Cheers Marc. My dig was more at the aussie press, nothing mentioned or hosted anywhere. A bit disapointing - you would have thought the public would be just as interested. Seems not.

[Adelastro1]

There were 8 animation entries. David put a slide up at the start with all the numbers of entries.

[Peter Ward]

Yep, they often don't have a clue behind the science of many images.

Iv'e tested the animation waters... so much the keep constant... over so many hours. If your etalon shifts and dust motes dance...well.... bugger!

Tough gig.

I really liked your sequences Col. Don't be phased by the press, for the most part they need some remedial science training.

[h0ughy]

Yes that is a bugger, but then you go with what you have. Better than nothing ;);)

[colinmlegg]

Thanks Peter. I think the bird has flown this time around. Wasn't holding out much hope, so not really that disappointed.

Good luck with the animations! Would be nice to see more entries next year.