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i voted no because the standard is so high, i am specifically talking about my preferred interest of deepsky imaging at focal lengths of 1000mm plus
...... in my personal opinion if you dont have megabucks worth of gear you dont have much of a shot
yes sure i could use the GRAS scopes, but i prefer my own gear and enjoy the aspect of doing as much as i can in my own backyard, i dont denigrate those who do pay for services offered by these setups,Im going to prattle a bit here as its raining and i cant work outside at the moment. Take a look at the Astros recently, probably not as prestigious as the CWAS.... but i bet they will give more attention to CWAS as noticed in recent threads.
And in those that i would enter i refer to the recent Astros ( and i did note that an ED80 won the cluster section...well done) Nebula section taken out by Martin Pugh with a lovely image taken with some formidible equipment 11 megapixel CCD, 12.5 inch RC, Adaptive optics, Paramount plus whatever, ... now not to take away from the ability of the imager but you add to his skills the top level gear... forget it its chalk and cheese.... id be embarressed to have my image sitting next to his , Sure i would put a pic up at the snake valley overnighter, but thats a different level. mike won 2nd and given some of the images he put up here hes way above me.
Galaxies section... same deal. Martin with a delicious shot of 1365, plus he got 2nd as well.
Wide field taken out with a tak 150 plus tak mount and 11 megapixel CCD
This was just for a star party where you either had to turn up or be a member of a particular society.
Back to the CWAS , nope not a hope , if you want to impress anyone other than the locals astrophotography is $$$$ game .... jase can argue all he likes about the processing, the fact is that anyone who has a chance in this comp already has processing skills .... its the serious end gear, if some one gets 24 inch rcos stuff like the yanks than theyre in the front row.... heck you dont even get an image in the Astronomy Mag unless its taken with a 20 inch RCOS. Now Australia is a bit behind the Americans but even here on IIS the bar has been raised as Leon put it in a thread not so long ago.
Having seen the images that Mike sidonio , Jase, peter put up recently , im not even in the same game.
i do enjoy what i do but im just playing on the local footy team not for the National league.
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