Feature story about Alex Cherney in Sydney Morning Herald

[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Have to say though.. a wide field time lapse movie specialist getting time on a 10.4m with a 7' X 7' FOV deep sky imaging instrument is positively scandalous

Yep, that's more Fred's territory

Just add a barlow or powermate and Fred would be in heaven

[spacezebra (Petra)]

Congrats Alex

So looking forward to catching up with you at Border Stargaze 2011.

Cheers Petra d.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Congratulations, my friend. You thoroughly deserved that win, with your beautiful imagery.

I hope you enjoy your time on the big kahuna!

H

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Good on you Alex, Well deserved recognition. And I'm not jealous either ... not at all ... nope, not one teensy weensy little bit ... nothing ... didn't even give it a thought ... I'm a bigger man than that ... it's a curse you know ...

Cheers, Marcus

[gts055 (Mark)]

Congratulations Alex, wishing you great conditions for imaging, ( hope you can beat your remarkable images taken thru your 22" Kennedy mirror, Argo, Servocat powered SDM Dobsonian Mark

[gary]

Originally Posted by Octane

I hope you enjoy your time on the big kahuna!

Hi H,

Alex won a trip to La Palma, in the Canary Islands, rather than to Hawaii.

I am not sure which would be the scarier of the two to be confronted with -
a big kahuna or a big canary?

[Octane (Humayun)]

Oh, I know.

H

[Bassnut (Fred)]

OK, excellent , but Im missing something basic. Try as I may, I can find a video. Is this a "time lapse" as in stacked images, or an actual video.

The SMH implies a video "For the Starmus competition he shot at 25 frames a second over six nights from cliffs at Cape Schanck, Flinders and the Great Ocean Road, then edited the footage to 2 and a half minutes".

I cant find it?.

[gts055 (Mark)]

Hii Fred, try here at Alex's website to see the winning video : http://www.terrastro.com/blog/checking-in-from-starmus/, Mark

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Originally Posted by gts055

Hii Fred, try here at Alex's website to see the winning video : http://www.terrastro.com/blog/checking-in-from-starmus/, Mark

Most Excellent, thank you, very inspiring video.

[Kevnool (Kev)]

Congrats Alex.
Well deserved.

Cheers Kev.

[gary]

Imagine the opportunity to meet this lineup at Starmus for starters.

http://www.starmus.com/pages/en/tribute.php

Then there is the guest speaker's list!
http://www.starmus.com/pages/en/programme.php

[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by gary

Hi H,

Alex won a trip to La Palma, in the Canary Islands, rather than to Hawaii.

I am not sure which would be the scarier of the two to be confronted with -
a big kahuna or a big canary?

A giant Tweetie Bird....well he won't be bothered by Sylvester, in that case

[alexch (Alex)]

Hi All!

Just landed in Melbourne today. Thanks for the kind words and complements - they are much appreciated.

It has been a surreal and humbling experience to meet and talk with all the astronauts, cosmonauts and leading scientists.

The two nights at the observatory in La Palma were like a space flight for me. I spent an hour at the GTC telescope observing the targets (ARP84 and UGC9103 interacting galaxies) and then stayed for the whole night watching the astronomer at work and taking images around the telescope.

I'll do an update when I have digested it all and gone through the images.

Cheers,
Alex

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Sensational! Can't wait

Mike

[gary]

Hi Alex,

Welcome back and it sounds amazing.

Hope some of the star parties here in Australia invite you as a guest presenter.
I for one would love to hear the whole story and I am certain many others
would as well.