June 2011 Astrophotography Contest Winners

[Pleiades]

Greetings to everybody!

First of all we want to say a big THANKS to all the participants in the June 2011 PixInsight Astrophotography Monthly Contest. All the images are great and we are honored with your participation. This is the first issue of this contest and it has been a success. We are absolutely glad and hope everybody will continue enjoying successive contest editions.

Now, congratulations to the winners! According to the contest rules, we have three winners because there have been ten or more participants. These have been the most voted images (click on the images to see the original versions):

First Prize — NGC 6727 Dust and Gas in Corona Australis, by Leonardo Julio



Second Prize — NGC 4565 - The Needle Galaxy in Coma Berenices, by Stephen Leshin



Third Prize — IC 1396A - The Elephant's Trunk Nebula, by Howard Trottier



Finally, the contest organizers also want to include the fourth most voted image in this announcement. We feel most of us have had a hard time deciding our votes due to the quality of participating works, so we think the next image deserves a special mention.

Special Mention — NGC 5128 - The Centaurus A Galaxy, by Alejandro Tombolini




Clear, dark and steady skies to everybody!

[Nocturnal]

Congrats to the winners!

[Alejandro Tombolini]

Hola,

Mis felicitaciones y un saludo muy especial para los ganadores, y más que agradecido por la mención especial de NGC 5128,
ahora puedo decir que fue muuuuy difícil y la reprocesé un montón de veces.

Ha sido un placer participar y muy interesante compartir y aprender de las demás experiencias y de cómo cada uno usa y entiende PixInsiht.


Hi,

Congratulations and a very special greeting for the winners, and more than thankyou for the special mention of NGC 5128, now I can say that it was veeery difficult and I re-process it a lot of times.

It was a pleasure to participate and very interesting to share and learn from others experiences and how each one use and understand PixInsight.   

Saludos,
Alejandro.

[MickyWay]

Congratulations to the winners and to all the entrants for sending in such fantastic images.

All are a testiment to their imaging skills and to Pixinsight (thanks Vince and everyone at PI).

[leochino]

Quiero agradecer a toda la gente que me voto, en especial habiendo tantas y tan buenas imágenes. Realmente es un honor para mi estar entre los mas votados en este primer concurso de Pixinsight.
Quiero felicitar también a los demás participantes, y a los moderadores del foro por la iniciativa de armar este concurso, que nos permite aprender más y mejores herramientas de este maravilloso soft. Y además nos incentiva a seguir mejorando la calidad de nuestros trabajos.
Espero poder participar en futuras ediciones.
Saludos a todos,  y muchas gracias!

Leonardo Julio

[Nigel Ball]

Congratulations to Leonardo, Stephen, Howard and Alejandro

[Jules]

They are all fantastic images, congratulations!

Julian

[Howard]

Hello:

It was thrilling to be a part of a competition with so much beautiful work. How fitting that Leonardo's gorgeous portrait appeared on APOD during the competition, and that Stephen had yet another stunning galaxy image pop up on APOD just days ago! Given the community that is the PixInsight forum, there is much to look forward to in future editions of the monthly contest.

Best regards,
Howard.