Well Done Phil if anyone ever deserved to win the overall prize it is you, so many years of getting so close...you have finally cracked the big one, I think we can safely say now that you are the king or the David Malin Awards
Well done to everyone else too (too many to mention)
One worth a big mention though!...Houghy, I believe you are the first Father-Daughter combo to both win Honorable mentiones, hearty congratulations to you both!! and how worth it was it now, to travel that 1200km and blow a radiator..???
Appears like I got close yet so far in the Deep Sky category , 3 Highly Commended in the same category, something about each of of them just didn't make the cut huh?...no room left by the Pugh oh well next year.....
Congratulations everyone
Mike
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So pleased for your great success in DMA StephenM-well done mate! Look forward to viewing all the entries.Congrats to all the other IIS members that did well
thanks all. it was great to be in parkes again amongst such talented and friendly company. congrats to all and your various awards, mentions and commendations.. all of it very fine work. there is of course some irony for me in winning the award with an image taken closer to home and at a more civilised hour than (almost) any other entry i've ever submitted. but of course from david's judging perspective that is not entirely a random outcome.
the whole event is a great credit to the organisers and all involved. being at the centre of australian radio astronomy is always interesting.. this time i enjoyed hearing from and chatting to Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith, the scientist who prepared our bid, about the science and politics of the SKA site selecton. fascinating stuff, if a touch depressing too.
and i had to chuckle when i arrived at 'the dish' at 10:30pm on friday night.. i only needed one guess to figure that the only other car in the far corner of the car park would of course be alex cherney, who i shortly found chatting to john sarkissian waiting for the rain to clear! we had fun both friday and saturday nights making the best of the fickle weather trying to image the morning conjunction around the dish. on saturday night, alex went straight from the awards while i opted for two hours sleep first. i'm not sure which of us can blame the other for the clouds, sucker holes and fleeting gaps but it's always more fun with company. here's one very quick result from friday night/saturday morning.
and while you might think the winner should not have any quibbles with the judging (and of course i don't ), i do have to finish by noting that david thought my beautiful takahashi epsilon diffraction spikes were a star filter applied in photoshop! ye gods!
look forward to seeing many of you again at the eclipse!
and while you might think the winner should not have any quibbles with the judging (and of course i don't ), i do have to finish by noting that david thought my beautiful takahashi epsilon diffraction spikes were a star filter applied in photoshop! ye gods!
Just got back to the big smoke after a very enjoyable night at the Malin Awards. It was great to see some old faces again and meet new winners for the first time.
I suspect there was a stuff-up in some entry names, the White light Venus transit image I submitted was not selected by David for an HM, the image he picked was my H-alpha version! Can't complain, a Win, HM and HC is pretty cool
Congrats to Phil ... seems my suspicions were correct
A BIG thank-you needs to go out to the tireless John Sarkissian, CWAS, and Canon Australia for being such a fantastic sponsor.
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Wow, great efforts to you all. A very high calibre group, and congratulations Phil for achieving this momentous award. To Alex, I know you and Phil go to the most extreme lengths to create what you do, and following that, you superbly process your data. Well Done indeed!!!
Had a couple of Telescopes set up this morning at The dish-But Clouds Put an end to it .Got a Bit of a look at the sun later in the afternoon.John gave a Good talk on the Dish and The research work it has been doing over the Years. Tony
Just got back to Adelaide. Wow big trip, great company though, a great chance to catch with the guys I know from here and meet people face to face for the first time. Great to catch up with John and many thanks to David Malin for spending some time with me and provide me with some invaluable insight. Thanks to the supporters of the event and all the organisers too. Excellent night.
Congrats to all those awarded and a special congrats to Phil. Well done.
Well done all, and to Phil for taking the prize with such a ripper image. Bummed i couldn't make the night...work sent me to the other side of the Earth. Maybe next year? Looking forward to seeing all the images.
Ps. And thanks to Paul and Wayne for blogging the results.
Not been home long either after a 12 hour drive (the company could have been better though Paul :-P ). No, most enjoyable trip. Having someone to talk to along the way certainly made it seem to go faster, and Paul and I discussed lots I can tell you!
Thanks once again to the organisers, John Sarkissian, David, the CWAS, and Canon. And well done to Phil, all the winners, HMs, commendations, editor's choice winners and everyone that entered. There were a record number of entrants this year but slightly down on entries however. This was my third trip over in a row but the first to the conference during the day and it was great as well with interesting talks. One of the highlights of the trip was meeting Terry Lovejoy, and his father Keith, after photographing 'his' comet last Xmas and receiving a HM with one. Both great to talk to and Terry's talk about modern comet detecting methods was fascinating. And of course another highlight was talking to the best imagers in the country and picking up a many tips and ideas after sharing knowledge. I'm inspired now to go out and take some more shots! That's what I like about events like this - it helps motivate you to do better and better.
I hope Alex got some sleep this morning - I left him imaging at the dish at 2am last night after the awards! I learned quite a bit in the short time imaging alongside him which was great. I'm soooo envious of his equipment! Thanks Alex for letting me use your light and super duper tripod too!
if anyone ever deserved to win the overall prize it is you, so many years of getting so close...you have finally cracked the big one, I think we can safely say now that you are the king or the David Malin Awards 
, 3 Highly Commended in the same category, something about each of of them just didn't make the cut huh?...no room left by the Pugh 
oh well next year.....
