We congratulate the winners of our summer 2025 contest on Sh2-73!
We had more than 100 downloads of the data set in XISF as well as FITS format. Thank you very much for the interest! 40 hobby astronomers presented their images which doubles the submissions in our previous contest.
Vicent Peris, one of our jury members said: “I was impressed by the very high quality and passion many submissions showed.”
The jury consisting of Vicent Peris, Alicia Lozano, Emma Pezzi, Christoph Kaltseis, Bernhard Hubl has voted. Interestingly, they convened almost unanimously on the three winners!
The Results Are:
Unanimously, the jury allocated the FIRST PLACE to CASEY GOOD (Tucson, USA). We appreciated above all the very balanced and professional overall impression of that image. The winning image was processed in PixInsight, Graxpert.
Christoph Kaltseis: “A very carefully processed image that reflects professionalism and deep knowledge of image processing.”
Casey wins a 4-month subscription to images of our DeltaRhos. He will receive from August to November 2025 two tremendous data sets of this double telescope.
Klaus Haaken, Essen (Germany)
The SECOND PLACE goes to KLAUS HAAKEN in Königswinter, Germany. He processed the image with PixInsight only.
Emma Pezzi: “I want to highlight the very good colour balance of that image.”
Klaus wins three data sets of choice captured by our DeltaRhos.
The THIRD PLACE goes to STEPHAN KÜPPERS in Varel, Germany. He processed the image in PixInsight and applied BlurXT, NoiseXT as well as StarXT to the image. Stephan wins one data set of choice from our DeltaRhos.
Stephan Küppers, Varel (Germany)
We decided to acknowledge the results of four more images that were submitted. All creators of these images put a lot of passion into their work. Bogdan Stanciu and Marco Zauner (both from Austria), Simone Curzi and Omar Cazzanti (both from Italy) will receive a voucher of 30 Euros for their submissions. This voucher can be applied for any of the products on our website.
During the upcoming days we will contact all winners and hand out their prices.
Once again, we would like to say a big THANK YOU! to all of you who downloaded and submitted their images as well as to the jury members for their voting on the images!