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Originally Posted by Hagar
The quality of the images is fantastic to say the least but it is near impossible for the Mr average with Mr Average gear to get a look in to anything other than the true widefield or landscape type sections which places most on somewhat of an even playing field and relies on skills in capture and processing with in most cases standard gear affordable to most of us.
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If Mr Average with Mr Average gear was truly determined to win an award then they would surely target their entry to the strengths of their Mr Average equipment. If that means widefield or landscape type sections then that should not be a problem for them. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the majority of the great entrants would have purchased their equipment in the first place with a specific goal of being able to produce some sort of targeted image. People buy specific equipment with the goal of doing widefield, large nebula, galaxy, planetaries, narrowband, landscape, or planerary type photos. Mr Average just needs to plan his purchases more carefully than others if he truly expects to be able to 'step up from the Average astroimager' which they will have to do in order to compete for the DM award!