2012 David Malin Awards

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Hi all,
I'm back in Brisbane too, after a great weekend in Parkes. My first experience of these awards, and it was great to put faces to names and meet lots of the photographers whose work I've admired over the last few years! Well done to all the other winners, and especially to Phil for the overall award! And of course thanks to John Sarkissian and the organising committee, and all the sponsors.

Cheers,
Stephen

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Originally Posted by hotspur

So pleased for your great success in DMA StephenM-well done mate!

Thanks Chris!

Cheers,
Stephen

[gregbradley]

Results of the 2012 CWAS "David Malin Awards"





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Hello all,

Last night, during the 2012 CWAS AstroFest dinner, the recipients of this year's "David Malin Awards" were announced. In the next few days, pictures of the event will be posted on the web along with the winning astrophotographs.

Congratulations to Phil Hart and to all the award recipients. The following are the results for the 2012 CWAS "David Malin Awards".

HM=Honourable Mention
HC= Highly Commended


OVERALL WINNER: Phil Hart - "Melbourne Moon"
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Deep Sky
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Winner: Martin Pugh - "IC5067"

HM: Martin Pugh - "Eastern Veil Nebula"
HM: Martin Pugh - "Vela SNR (Portion)"
HM: Phil Hart - "Pleiades"
HM: Jason Jennings - "Night Market"

HC: Jason Jennings - "Smoking Pipe Nebula"
HC: Michael Sidonio - "Hubble's Rose"
HC: Michael Sidonio - "Orion's Sword"
HC: Michael Sidonio - "The Tangled Web of Argo Navis"
HC: Steven Mohr - "M16 - The Eagle's Pillars of Creation"
HC: Steven Mohr - "NGC 6744 - A Milky Way"


Wide-Field
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Winner: Alex Cherney - "Speared Emu'

HM: Greg Bradley - "The Blue Horsehead to Rho Ophiuchi"
HM: Mike Salway - "Road to the Milky Way"
HM: Gary Hill - "Antares Region"
HM: Stephen Mudge - "Star Trails over Lake Wivenhoe"
HM: Zane Hammond - "Pinnacles Desert Starscape 1"

HC: Phil Hart - "Dunnottar Castle"
HC: Phil Hart - "Glenmaggie Star Trail"
HC: Russell Cockman - "Majestic Crux to Carina"
HC: Mike Salway - "Finding the Way Home"
HC: Wayne England - "Swamp Archway"


Solar System - Hires
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Winner: Peter Ward - "King of Pain"

HM: Anthony Wesley - "Jupiter from Exmouth WA, 30th August 2010"
HM: Peter Ward - "Venus Transit in white light"
HM: Paul Haese - "The Transit of Venus"
HM: Paul Haese - "Cycle 24"

HC: Paul Haese - "Mars"
HC: Stefan Buda - "Sunset At Herschel Crater"
HC: Stefan Buda - "Two Minutes of Venus Transit"
HC: Peter Ward - "Tricolor transit"
HC: Troy Tranter - "Saturn's Super Storm"


Solar System - Wide-Field
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Winner: Phil Hart - "Melbourne Moon"

HM: Wayne England - "Santa's Sleigh Trail!"
HM: Phil Hart - "Lovejoy's Tail"
HM: Geoff Sims - "Totality over Tikahana Motu"

HC: Phil Hart - "Sunrise Transit"
HC: Geoffrey Wyatt - "Super moonrise"
HC: Wayne England - "Comet Lovejoy Swamp Reflections"
HC: Denis Crute - "Moontrail"



Theme - Symmetries
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Winner: Trent McDougall - "Partially Lunar over Luna"

HM: Wayne England - "Moonlight Reflections"
HM: Grahame Kelaher - "Bright Night"
HM: Geoffrey Wyatt - "Equinoctial Twins"
HM: Richard Tonello - "Emu Crossing"
HM: Alex Cherney - "Crown Jewels above Lake Tekapo"

HC: Broderick Matthews - "Moon Rise Over Uluru"
HC: Grahame Kelaher - "Perth Skyline, Moon and Juipter"
HC: Alex Cherney - "Sky Lake"


Junior
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Winner: Nathan Coleman - "NGC 5128: Centaurus A"

HM: Stephanie Hough - "Super Moon Cruise"
HM: Nathan Coleman - "NGC 3372 - The Great Nebula in Carina"

HC: Lachlan Mabbutt - "Star party star trail"
HC: Lachlan Mabbutt - "Christmas eclipse"
HC: Lachlan Mabbutt - "Backyard star trails"


Animations
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Winner: Colin Legg - "Nocturnal"

HM: Phil Hart - "The Venus and Jupiter Show"
HM: David Hough - "Transit of Venus in White Light and Hydrogen Alpha from Nyngan"
HM: Greg Priestley - "Comet Lovejoy Time-lapse"
HM: Alex Cherney - "Starlit Silhouettes"
HM: Alex Cherney - "Red Aurora Australis"



Regards, John Sarkissian
2012 CWAS "David Malin Awards"




Greg Bradley.

[stardust steve (Steve)]

Congrats to all the winners and to those with mentions, distinctions.

[Peter Ward]

My personal take on the 2012 event is here

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

My personal take on the 2012 event is here

lov the VR image Peter - my son thinks it rocks

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

lov the VR image Peter - my son thinks it rocks

Nuts! ...should have used it for a wide field entry

Not sure what to take away from the awards this year.

David went to some lenghts to state it was visual impact...eg strong graphic elements... that you can just as easily capture with say, a DSLR, rather than a mega-CCD, was what he was looking for.

The standard, well, gets better every year. I was particularly impressed with Colin Legg's work.

By the way...anyone know what next year's open theme will be??

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

By the way...anyone know what next year's open theme will be??

DM knows

[Adelastro1 (Wayne England)]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

By the way...anyone know what next year's open theme will be??

John Sarkissian spoke to a group of us at night's end and we asked when next year's theme category would be announced. He said please send him any suggestions. He has no idea at this stage and I'm sure David doesn't either! John thought of this year's theme. He hopes to announce it by about October at the latest.

[anthony.tony]

Some images from Lisa Smith Great talk on Sat. At Astrofest --Tony

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Hi all,

The winning images are now up on the website:

http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news...oFest_DMA.html

Cheers,
Stephen

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by StephenM

Hi all,

The winning images are now up on the website:

http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news...oFest_DMA.html

Cheers,
Stephen

???? where are the animated sequences?

[trent_julie]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

???? where are the animated sequences?

John just emailed and the animated sequences should be up tomorrow
Trent

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by trent_julie

John just emailed and the animated sequences should be up tomorrow
Trent

ok

[Adelastro1 (Wayne England)]

John just emailed to say the David Malin Awards images are on today's Melbourne Herald Sun's (some symmetry there!!) front webpage. The link to the gallery direct is below.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/pic...9150263?page=1

[Adelastro1 (Wayne England)]

And the exhibition tour dates are up too! Great to see it coming to the SA Museum for the first time. I commented to John that having them in the basement of the RiAus wasn't the best for numbers of people coming through to see it (only 700 apparently) so the museum should increase that to thousands, especially since the tour dates are in School holidays! Also great to see it going to Perth and Cairns.

[Derek Klepp]

Originally Posted by anthony.tony

We have pic of John Sarkissian and Nick lomb-A pic of Dr. Lisa Harvey Smith her The Ska has a Home talk- Terry Lovejoy's Presentation. Tony

Thanks for this Tony thats my Auntys name (Dorothea Tom) on the OAM board in the background I'd forgotten all about it.

[CometGuy]

Thank you Tony and Peter for posting the Pic's and well done to all the David Malin entrents.

Dad and I had a great time and it was good to finally meet some of you guys in person!

Terry

[Phil Hart]

to deal with the endless stream of media enquiries (actually, just one so far ), i've put up a post with some more details of the melbourne moonrise image:

http://philhart.com/content/melbourn...d-malin-awards

i heard from john sarkissian that geoffrey wyatt spent two years trying for his moon image last year. if so, that's quite an effort! i certainly don't claim as such for mine.

seeing all the images on a real monitor now rather than the parkes projector certainly brings them out in greater glory. i think the winners in each category are all well deserved..

my personal favourite is probably peter wards high res venus transit.. stunning details and striking composition and of course very different to any other year. i don't plan to take up high-res imaging anytime soon but the transit images were all impressive and i thought a venus transit might be a chance for the overall award this year.. sorry guys .

Colin Legg's video is something else.. look at the quality of this, including sequences combining five cameras into one high res view of the sky!? http://vimeo.com/45856570

alex' widefield lovejoy and [anything] by martin pugh both great winning images, and trent's symmetry image very impressive now.. my view on the night was a little confused by david's crop and pan as he presented them quite quickly. alex' lake tekapo is pretty striking too and not surprisingly the photo editor's choice. so that leaves me with not much to disagree about !

Phil

[Paul Haese]

Originally Posted by philiphart

.....i don't plan to take up high-res imaging anytime soon but the transit images were all impressive and i thought a venus transit might be a chance for the overall award this year.. sorry guys .......

Yeah a few people had thought that too. I did get a bit hopeful after David called out my name for one image and then let me go back to my seat as he had told Alex to remain seated for his two HM's. It was the editors choice that put my image up into the position behind the winning entry for hi res. Oh well next time.

Not sure of the value of the editors choice though. Are those being published?