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Reference: ING Newsl., No. 9, page 36.
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Other available formats: PDFAmateur Awards
In 2004 two
people working or collaborating with ING were awarded with important amateur
distinctions. Mischa Schirmer, ING support astronomer, was awarded a special
mention (telescope category) for his photographs of NGC 2246, M33 and NGC
7023 at the first national astrophotography competition “Fotocósmica
2004”organised by the IAC. All the awarded photographs were taken at sea
level a bit south of Santa Cruz de La Palma. The telescope was a 20cm f/3.8
(760mm focal length) Flat Field Camera (“FFC”) from Lichtenknecker Optics.
More information on the individual photographs can be found at http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~mischa/mbo/gallery_ccd/.
Nik Szymanek, an amateur astronomer in the United Kingdom who collaborates
with ING in public outreach activities (see, for instance,ING Newsl., 6, 29), was the
2004 recipient of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific’s Amateur Achievement
Award. Given annually since 1979, the Amateur Achievement Award is designed
to recognise significant contributions to astronomy or amateur astronomy
by those not employed in the field of astronomy in a professional capacity.
The Society’s Board of Directors noted Szymanek’s leadership in state-of-the-art
imaging and image processing —especially his true-colour, deep-sky images
produced from the data obtained by observers at ING— and his ongoing contributions
to education and public outreach. ¤
Left: Awarded photograph of NGC 2246,
the Rosette Nebula by Mischa Schirmer. The image was obtained through an
Hα filter on a 2×2 mosaic of 21 images totalising an exposure time
of 3 hours and 30 minutes. [ JPEG | TIFF ]. Right: Picture of the WHT taken by Nik Szymanek
with a digital camera. [ JPEG | TIFF
].
