Welcome to the Cloudy Nights Imaging Contest! Over the years, we’ve noticed we have some exceptional talent in our forums, and we’ve decided that we would like to show it off. Each month our readers will choose an overall winner, and that photographers image will be displayed on the front of CN for a month. The winner will also be awarded an official Cloudy Nights t-shirt courtesy of Astronomics. How to enter: Please visit our forums and submit an image/sketch in the appropriate forum, each forum will have a "sticky" thread called "Imaging Contest Submissions". Images may be submitted to the contest threads in the following galleries: Beginning Imaging Film Astrophotography DSLR and Digital Camera Astro Imaging and Processing CCD Imaging and Processing Solar System Imaging and Processing Sketching Moderators are listed by the forum name, and additionally their name or handle appears in green. Please contact them if you have any questions. Each month, 6 images will be chosen from each gallery for the readers of that gallery to vote on. The winner will be placed in a site wide poll for our users to determine which is an overall winner. See the individual forums and moderators for additional details and questions. Rules are subject to change without notice. Contest Rules: 1.All entries must be captured within the same season as the contest. For example, if the subject was Orion Nebula, than any photo captured during this particular winter (or period that it was visible) would qualify for the contest. 2.Please include the equipment used to take the image. Scope/Mount/Camera/Focal reducers/Barlows...whatever, as well as your name, the time / date and your location. 3.Images sizes are limited to 100k and 800x600. 4.There will be a separate sticky thread for Contest entries . Please do not post comments in the entries thread its just for these wonderful images you all will be submitting. 5. The equipment must be yours. Don't matter what it is. 20"RC, ETX70, 2" Tasco or an 8"TMB. 6. You must be the owner or co-owner and operator. You must setup, align, take the exposures and process them yourself. No pay by the hour renta-scope images will be allowed. 7. A given user can only win once every 3 months. 8. Voting for the individual polls posted in the forums will be no later than the 5th day of the month. Forum voting takes place from the 5-8, finalist pictures / poll is posted no later than the 10th, and voting takes place from the 10-15. Finally winners are posted to the front page on the 16th of each month.