Overall - Martin Pugh's Lambda Centauri narrow band
Amateur deep sky - Martin Pugh's Lambda Centauri
Amateur Solar System - Phil Hart's Luna Eclipse sequence
Amateur Wide field: Phil Hart's Crux region
Star Trails in the landscape: Gary Hills Star Trails with tree
Semi Pro- Peter Ward's M104
Inovation Prize - not awarded
under 16's - not awarded
Honorable mentions went to: Mike Sidonio X2, Jason Jennings X2, Brad Le Brocque, Phil Hart (a couple?), Paule Hease, Gary Hill (a couple?) and two other people who's names I forget (sorry)
106 entries this year (with no Comet McNaughts this time) so the best year yet and David said the standard of entries was so high that it took him an entire day of judging to settle the awards the longest it had ever taken him and most of this was due to the Amateur Deep Sky category
Here are some photos of the event (from my web site so kinda from my perspective sorry but interesting I hope?)
Congratulations to all of the winners. Martin Pugh's work is really quite extraordinary...I now have one of his framed images adorning my wall at work, and it gets many comments from people who have no interest in astronomy as a hobby.
Yes, Congrads to Martin with his beautiful narrow band image and to the other winners and everyone who managed a honorable mention.
Like Mike had mentioned David said the standard of entries was very high and took him the best part of a day to go through.
Another Honorable mention went to Eddie Trimarchi ^^^ for his Eta mosaic and the innovation award went to a Lady from the CWAS but I can`t remember her name at the moment..
Yes Twilight, sounds like a challenge this time!
cheers Gary
cheers.
........ and the innovation award went to a Lady from the CWAS but I can`t remember her name at the moment..
Yes Twilight, sounds like a challenge this time!
cheers Gary
cheers.
Sorry Gary...there was no innovation award this year. At least according to John Sarkissian.
Sorry Gary...there was no innovation award this year. At least according to John Sarkissian.
Cheers
Peter
Maybe it was another honorable mention then?
The piccy with a person with there telescope!...
and congrads again for your M104..I thought that would get Davids attention! I liked that eclipse mosaic but.
Mikes hand of god image was verrry nice as well as Jase`s SMC mosaic...
I`m glad I didn`t have to choose a winner!
cheers
Certainly was great to catch up with Mike, Peter, Paul and Gary amongst many others. Rather strange to be known by IIS alias. As I sat down at the dinner table on Saturday night, I started speaking with Jerry who I later discovered is 47Tuc on these forums (at the time we had a discussion/debate around testing of optics and the Strehl ratio). Great and stimulating conversation to be had with the sharing of imaging ideas and concepts. Kind of scary when you get some keen imagers in a room together.
Well done to Martin Pugh for taking out the overall. A remarkable image indeed. I had to go back early Sunday morning to the dish for another glance before the long journey home. To be selected out of 100+ photos submitted is certainly an achievement. I found David's citations to be rather valuable, though at times the obvious were stated (IMO).
Maybe it was another honorable mention then?
The piccy with a person with there telescope!...
Ah! That would have been Melissa Hulbert's honorable mention! ....she is a long standing member of SAS & does excellent public outreach work at Sydney Observatory....we christened the image (Moon, Venus and rogue Bishop) "three heavenly bodies" ...Melissa didn't seem to mind.
