July Entries - Time to judge for a winner (2013)

July's Competition Prize is kindly sponsored by:

With the closure of the July 2013 Astrophotography Competition, it is time to judge the entries. Please view the images and cast your vote on the Poll included. There is no need to reply to this post, or add comments - people's views are their own but may seem to sway favour towards a particular photo if too many comments towards a particular photo is made.

You have only 1 Vote, so make it count. And thanks again to Scopes & Space Ltd for their sponsorship of the prize for July (a Celestron 2" EP kit in case, see July's competition thread here for details)


Moon Photo #1

Taken on January 18th 2013. Canon EOS 60D



Moon Photo #2

Single frame taken under excellent seeing using a Canon 450D and an 8" Meade SCT at F10. Slight sharpening and contrast adjustment only to the original frame.



Moon Photo #3

Fiery Red Moon, Frozen Blue Landscape.



Moon Photo #4

Supermoon 22nd June 2013, Olympus E400 camera with 1000mm telephoto lens, Exposure 1/30th sec at ISO 100. No processing.



Moon Photo #5

Waxing Gibbous Moon 18th July 2013, a stack of 24 subs (1/250 ISO100) taken with Canon 1100D and SkyWatcher ST80. The Stack was done in Registax v5 and final image tweaked in CS6.



Moon Photo #6

October 2007 photo of what appears to be a collision between an airplane and the Moon at dusk. Canon 350D 1/60th second exposure autofocus, slight processing in Photoshop CS4.



Moon Photo #7

Captured using a Canon 350D at prime focused through an Intes MK67 on an LXD75 GEM. ISO 100 at 1/100th of a second.



Moon Photo #8

March 3rd 2007, Totality from Ireland, taken with a 6" reflector and a Konica Minolta Dynax 5D DSLR.


Best of Luck!


Seanie Morris.

Some really great images the very best of luck to everyone. Great to see this competition up and running again long may it last.

Clear Skies,

Carl O’Beirnes.

Agree with you Carl, and a nice prize up for grabs to the winner too!


If you haven't voted on the entries yet, don't forget to cast it soon! Poll wraps up on August 31st.

Seanie.

great shots,
so how do you vote ?