EDIT: Well folks, we are now officially full! 
I have 80 pages-worth of material either in-hand or coming before Monday.
To all who have submitted material, a jolly-big THANKYOU!
The book is now in final production. Thumbnails to be updated as pages are completed.
Once again, thanks to all.
Chris
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After seeing what's coming in, I think that I am able to "relax" the requirements a little for everyone. Don't worry about all the earlier "resolution" and "print dimensions", etc, etc mumbo-jumbo - just send me your photos in JPG, TIF or whatever else you have, and I'll do the work necessary to put them on a page right here. How's
that for service? LOL! If I have a problem with your image I'll PM you to discuss. Should be fine though!
If I could ask that you look at the page thumbnails I'm displaying here and in the thread (
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...6&postcount=70 ) to see what has already been contributed. If you have something different, that would, of course, be ideal - and better for the variety.
As we're all used to seeing various "space" images in print, it's actually OK to have images that are a little "fuzzy" as such! Don't let that stop you from contributing! Not everyone's images are going to come out with Hubble-like quality!
All I need are three things:
1) Main image - this can be a single object or collage of objects that you've imaged - and it does not have to be from this year. For collages, please supply me with all the images you'd like to collage - I'll do them here.
2) Insert image - this image should be of yourself, your imaging rig or both, and supplied as a separate image from the main one.
3) A description of your main image (including both common name and catalogue number) and basic processing technique. 30 words or less please. A description of you and your rig - again, 30 words or less please. Please supply this in a plain text file.
I've offered my own server for you to upload material to (via FTP) for the IIS Compendium '09. You may do it this way or just email your material to me. Please see the attached image to show you the server login and, if you don't have FTP access, my email details. I'd rather not show them here in plain text which robots might grab.
If you choose FTP. you may use any common FTP program such as FileZilla, gFTP, etc. Go here to find one if you need to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...lient_software
When you log in, simply do these two things:
1)
Create a new folder for yourself and call it after your IIS user name.
2) Go to that folder and upload your 2 images (main pic plus rig/you) and a text file describing the main image (30 words or so, giving the DATE of image acquisition and then a short blurb on HOW you processed it) and yourself/rig (also 30 words or so), or a zip file containing everything in the one archive if you prefer.
Please PM me that you've done it. That will trigger me to download material as soon as I see it and delete it from the server once I have it - so that it doesn't sit there exposed. I'll leave the folder as a reminder, but will empty it after download. Please be aware that I'll be doing this!!!
I have left this FTP destination totally open for the purpose of gathering these images from you. Please be careful in there and don't go deleting or using anyone else's folder. It's basically anonymous FTP we're dealing with here. No responsibility is taken for your images. If any are lost I'll simply ask for them again.
If all else fails and you can't get FTP going, please see my email address in the image. Whilst my email server is set to take huge files, yours may not be capable of sending them.
I'm looking at closing submissions on
Monday 14th September now - or earlier if we reach our 80-page target before then. That gives you all the extra weekend!
Let's go!!
you sure are taking on a big job, with outstanding results, congratulations, fantastic effort. 
you do some fantastic widefield with that trusty lens of yours, 
where's all the saturn boys hiding 
