I couldn't place this thread in Photography because it crosses all the headings so I stuck it in here.
Please place your entries in here from The Snake Valley Camp.
Categories are:
*Best Planetary
*Best Nebula
*Best Star Structure
*Best Galaxy
*Best Home-made Accessory
*Best Over-all (Erwin van der Velden Award)
The comp is open to all that attended Camp (members, guests, organisers)BUT the photo had to be taken during the Camp and the home-made item had to taken and used at the camp.
Please submit your entries here (multiple entries allowed). As for the best home-made item, if you cannot supply a photo please describe the item.
Some of the people I know of that took pics are:
Myself, Bird, Davo P & Mike. There must have been others!
I saw several home-made items eg: John xstreams accessory tray.
When submitting an entry please name the category. The judging method will be sorted out in the next day or 2.
Entries close on Monday 7th November 2005 at midnight.
Last edited by ballaratdragons; 04-11-2005 at 10:33 PM.
The organisers have unamimously decided that the judging of the Astropics awards will be by all members using the 'poll' method.
Each category entered will have it's own poll. There were no Galaxy entries so that will be scrapped. I don't think anyone caught any Nebula shots either.
Entries close on Monday 7th November 2005 at midnight.
All entries will be posted on Tuesday to be voted on and certificates will be forwarded to the winners.
Please submit your entries in this thread (multiple entries allowed).
Aha - found it! I was looking everywhere else except here for this thread... Thanks to Ken for reminding me about it, and allowing me to contribute.
Here's my best mars image from Monday night/Tuesday morning - taken at 3am when mars was just dropping below 30 degrees in altitude. I guess this would belong in the "Planetary" category.
Captured using Coriander for Linux, processing in Linux and Windows with
ppmcentre, NetPBM, registax, Astra Image, Neat Image and GIMP.
The 3 images here are really just one image with different amounts of saturation & smoothing, so hopefully one of these images will look ok on your display :-)
Bird's pics clearly don't deserve to win. They've got these small blue markings all over them. Everyone else's Mars pics are nice clean and smooth so there is obviously something wrong with his setup. Bird, don't let this discourage you though, just keep at it and you'll get there one day. Maybe a thin smearing of vaseline over the CCD chip could have helped get rid of all those anomalies in your data. Better luck next time!
Bird's pics clearly don't deserve to win. They've got these small blue markings all over them. Everyone else's Mars pics are nice clean and smooth so there is obviously something wrong with his setup. Bird, don't let this discourage you though, just keep at it and you'll get there one day. Maybe a thin smearing of vaseline over the CCD chip could have helped get rid of all those anomalies in your data. Better luck next time!
Yeah, obviously my CCD really needs cleaning - I'll get out the wirebrush later and give it a scrub. That should take care of all those funny marks...I may as well give the primary a scrub while I'm at it - I've got a packet of steel wool around here somewhere that should be just the ticket...
Dave (47Tuc) can you give a brief description of your Dew shield so readers know what they are voting on please. Ta mate!
Mmmmmm, well its hard to explain, but it is very much like a Orion FlexiShield.
It is felt lined and is held on the scope on the spider bolts.
I got dew on my secondary once since I've had the dew shield no dew.
Hope that helps
I'm not sure what category these go in.. star structures?
They're fixed tripod shots with my Sony DSCP100, 15s exposures. I tried to get the reflection of the stars off the lake. There were too many weeds in the lake for the effect I was after, but it kinda worked.
The first one is Orion, the second and third are Taurus and the Pleiades and the 3rd also has Mars at the top of frame.
Curves adjusted and resized in Photoshop, final noise removal in NeatImage.
