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Please read the appropriate DISCUSSION THREAD to be up to date before posting. You may post as many photographs in the discussion thread but the actual contest thread is limited.
The photo you enter in the "Show Us Your Best Shot" contest is any photograph which you took within 30 days of the date you submitted it.
To be able to stay on a monthly schedule, the last day for submitting entry photographs will be five days before the end of the month, ie, if the month ends on the 30th then photos must be submitted no later than the 25th. If the month ends on the 31st then photos must be submitted no later than the 26th. Etc...
There are 28 days in February 2013, so, entries will end on February 23th, 2013.
The poll will be opened the day after last day for submitting entry photographs.
Only users who have been registered on City-Data over 30 days and who have at least one valid post may enter the contest or vote on the contest (Rule added Feb 3, 2012)
One photograph per contest and one vote per member.
All photographs must have been taken within 30 days of the date you submitted them.
Murrells Inlet, a natural harbor along the coast of SC, served as a hideout for a number of pirates, including Edward Teach, better known as "Blackbeard". Local Legend holds that, after burying a large treasure booty, a pirate was left behind to guard the spot, along with an ample supply of rum. When Blackbeard returned several years later, he found the pirate's skeleton leaning against a tree, with 32 empty casks of rum and a missing treasure. This tree is one of several in the area that local guides point out as being "Drunken Jack's tree."
NGC 2683 is a spiral galaxy discovered by William Herschel on February 5, 1788. It was nicknamed the "UFO Galaxy" by the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory. It is viewed nearly edge-on from Earth's location in space and is located between 16 to 25 million light-years away. It is receding from Earth at 410 km/s (250 mi/s), and from the Galactic Center at 375 km/s (233 mi/s). Note the many faint fuzzies in the image, all of which are distant galaxies.
Image:
12x300 sec = 60 minutes at ISO 800
Stacked in DeepSky Stacker. Processed in Adobe Photoshop CS3.
Equipment:
Modified Konus 200mm f5 Newtonian
Hutech Modified Canon T1i with Baader MPCC coma corrector and Baader UV/IR cut filter
Orion 80 mm f5 Shorty Guide Scope with Orion Star Shooter Autoguider
Losmandy G-11 Gemini Version 1.04 GEM
Losmandy Heavy Duty Tripod.
Image aquisition on February 11, 2013 at the Louiville Astronomical Society James Baker Observatory, Curby, Indiana
Mt. Pinatubo, at the intersection of Zambales, Tarlac and Pampanga provinces
Philippines
Taken January 31, 2013 while flying in a Cessna with a friend.
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