Alex Cherney gets 2nd place in National Geographic contest!

[Analog6 (Odille)]

It's a beautiful image Alex, well done.

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

WOW!! Well done Alex ... well deserved recognition!! Your images are awesome!

Cheers Marcus

PS: I'm glad the DMs have more than one category!

[Paul Haese]

Congrats Alex and I understand you also won the Starmus competition too. If so congrats for that too.

[alexch (Alex)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Congrats Alex and I understand you also won the Starmus competition too. If so congrats for that too.

Thanks Paul.

Yes my time lapse was chosen at Starmus Astro Photo competition as an overall winner just recently and I am still finding it hard to comprehend what happened partially because of the prize. It is a trip to the festival and an hour to observe an object of choice on GRANTECAN 10.4m optical telescope (largest in the world so far).

As you know, Starmus is a festival on Canary Islands in June to commemorate 50 years of manned space exploration and the list of guests is nothing short of amazing - Leonov, Tereshkova, Aldrin and others:
http://www.starmus.com/pages/en/tribute.php

The announcement is on the website so I guess this is really happening.
http://www.starmus.com/pages/en/winn...etition128.php

The FoV of the OSIRIS camera on GRANTECAN is 7.8' and I deciding upon an object won't be easy...

Cheers,
Alex

[Liz]

What an honour!!! Congratulations Alex.

[Paul Haese]

Hmm, just meeting half of those people would be awesome. I hope you get to talk to them.

I would image a galaxy if it was me. I am sure you will enjoy whatever you get to image or should I say observe.

[gary]

Hi Alex,

A second round of congratulations are in order!

All this is pointing to the fact that there is no luck involved in any of this, it can only
be attributed to pure skill.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by alexch

Thanks Paul.

Yes my time lapse was chosen at Starmus Astro Photo competition as an overall winner just recently and I am still finding it hard to comprehend what happened partially because of the prize. It is a trip to the festival and an hour to observe an object of choice on GRANTECAN 10.4m optical telescope (largest in the world so far).

As you know, Starmus is a festival on Canary Islands in June to commemorate 50 years of manned space exploration and the list of guests is nothing short of amazing - Leonov, Tereshkova, Aldrin and others:
http://www.starmus.com/pages/en/tribute.php

The announcement is on the website so I guess this is really happening.
http://www.starmus.com/pages/en/winn...etition128.php

The FoV of the OSIRIS camera on GRANTECAN is 7.8' and I deciding upon an object won't be easy...

Cheers,
Alex

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Mike

[iceman (Mike)]

WOW, double congrats Alex.

[multiweb (Marc)]

How awesome is that! Pick an area where it's really crowded so you can do a bit of hopping around

[Irish stargazer (John)]

Those shots are awesome. Your images just keep getting better and better. Well done Alex!!

[Jen]

your pics are amazing Alex congrats

Can i fit in your suitcase when you go play with the bigger toys