CONTEST - NOVEMBER 2002 Last updated: 24 November 2002

Moon Photo/Drawing Contest Results

Contest Description:

Take your best photograph or make your best drawing of the Moon or any lunar feature during the contest window. You could have used any ETX or DS telescope model and any eyepiece, with or without any optical accessories (e.g., Barlow Lens, focal reducer, filter). The contest window was 1200 Universal Time on 15 November 2002 through 1200 Universal Time on 17 November 2002. The photograph or drawing must have been done during this time period and submitted by 2100 Pacific Standard Time on 21 November 2002 (0500 UT, 22 November).

Contest Prize:

The prize is a Meade "AstroFinder Limited Edition Astronomy Software" package, which includes a CD-ROM (Windows 95/98/NT) and a #505 cable for use with a #497 Autostar. Value = $49.99 (USD). A description of the package is available on the OPT Site.

Contest Entries:

The following entries were received (in the order that they were received). Click on the image to see the full size (which may be large and a long download if you are on a slow link) then click your web browser's "back" button to return to this page.

For reference, here is a photograph of the Moon that I took on 15 November 2002 at 1925 PST, using my ETX-90RA, 25mm eyepiece, Wide Field Adapter, Nikon Coolpix 995 mounted with the Digi-T System.

Sent:	Saturday, November 16, 2002 0:50:54
From:	etxjim@yahoo.com (jim abbey)
This photo  was taken  11/16/02 at 21:35 Friday evening  with  an
ETX90ec with an Aiptek Mega cam,  Reselution of 1248X 960 using  a 9mm,MA
eye piece!

Sent:	Sunday, November 17, 2002 3:01:12
From:	martynandmarleen@btopenworld.com (Martyn Edwards)
Best of luck with the contest entries, and thanks for providing such an
excellent site over the years.

Date/Time :                     2002:11:17 / 00:46:44 UTC
Location :                      Tresaith, Wales UK
Lat/Long :                      52 deg 7.963 min North, 4 deg 30.974 min West
Telescope :                     Meade ETX 90EC
Mount :                         Alt-Az, undriven
Method :                        Afocal
Eyepiece :                      Meade Series 4000 40mm Super Plossl
Camera / eyepiece mating by :   Scopetronix Digi-T
Digital Camera :                Olympus C4040 Zoom
ISO Rating :                    100 ASA
Shutter :                       1/125 sec
Aperture :                      f2.3

The image has not been cropped, retouched or digitally manipulated in
any way.

Sent:	Wednesday, November 20, 2002 9:46:59
From:	aon.912183187@aon.at (Gerald Wechselberger)
Please find attached for the contest my selected image of the Moon from
November 16th 2002.

On the one hand i was lucky to get a somehow clear sky on the 16th, but
the seeing was absolutely horrible.

The craters wer jumping in all directions so the quality of the image is
not as good as i hoped, but will be better than those images you maybe
will  receive and which have been shot at fully clouded sky. In addition
there were strong winds, so only a few out of the  800 (eigthundred)
images i shot (with the help of the automated Remote Palmtop Release),
became somehow sharp.

According to the rules here the data:

Name:              Gerald WECHSELBERGER
Date:              2002-11-16
Time:              21:01:45 UT (09:01:45 PM UT)
Telescope:         ETX125EC, Polar mounted
Eyepiece:          26mm Standard Meade at the back of the ETX
Additional Optical Acc:	NO
Camera:            Canon G1 Digitalcamera
Mounting:          Scopetronix Eyepiece Adapter
Camera Aperture:   F 2.5
Shutter Speed:     1/50 Second
Focal length:      3x Optical Zoom = 21mm, + 2x Digital Zoom
ISO:               50

Best Regards - ALOHA - Mit freundlichen Gren
Gerald Wechselberger

And the Winner Is...

Gerald Wechselberger! Congratulations to Gerald!!!! And many thanks to each of you who entered this contest!

Sent:	Sunday, November 24, 2002 11:41:02
From:	oldwexi@aon.at (Gerald Wechselberger)
Hallo Mike!

Thanks for your congratulations.

I am happy with my ETX telescope and happy with the possibilities it
gives to me and  the so called ETX worlwide community  out there  which
is growing permanently because of the support you give to us with your
MIGHTY ETX Site.

It was fun to fight with weather and wind this time to getting usable
images.

I will be happy to share my fun and experience in using the ETX with you
and the ETX community in the future.

Best Regards - ALOHA - Mit freundlichen Gren
Gerald Wechselberger
Homepage: http://www.werbeagentur.org/oldwexi/
Ebreichsdorf - Austria

Decisions of the judges (Mike Fowler of OPT and Mike Weasner) are final.

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