"The Chambliss Award for Amateur Achievement for 2008, presented by the
American Astronomical Society (AAS), was awarded to Steve Mandel of the Hidden Valley Observatory, Soquel, California, last week. Mandel was cited for his many contributions to wide-field imaging, including collaboration on the
Mandel-Wilson Unexplored Nebulae Project, a survey searching for extremely low surface brightness interstellar clouds in the Milky Way..."
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/39135422.html
http://www.galaxyimages.com/M81-82Color.html
http://www.galaxyimages.com/UNP1.html