ANNOUNCING THE FIFTH ANNUAL
Editors’ Choice Photo of the Week Contest
ASTROPHOTOGRAPHERS! Send us your best astrophotos, and you could win in one of the four categories described below. Enter today!
Category: Best deep-sky digital, high-resolution imagery
Prize: Celestron NexStar 8 SE telescope
celestron.com
Category: Best digital-camera photo – lunar and planetary
Prize: Pentax 8x42 HRII multicoated binoculars with case
pentaxcanada.ca
Category: Best tripod-mounted unguided photo
Prize: TheSky6 Professional advanced astronomy software
bisque.com
Category: Best deep-sky digital, wide-field and medium-resolution imagery
Prize: Meade Deep Sky Imager DSI Pro II (either colour or monochrome, as the winner chooses)
meade.com
THREE EASY STEPS:
Step 1. Send us your astrophotos. Please keep e-mail files under 2MB.
Step 2. Contest closes June 1, 2007. We’ll choose the best and
publish a new photo every week at www.skynews.ca
Step 3. The winning photos and a number of honourable mentions will be published in the September/October 2007 issue of SkyNews.
CONTEST RULES: Contest closes June 1, 2007. There are no entry fees or entry forms.
• Contest closes june 1, 2006. There are no entry fees or entry forms.
• Photos previously submitted to the SkyNews Photo Gallery, including those not published, are automatically eligible. Do not resubmit photos already sent. You may enter as often as you wish, but please don’t send more than 10 of your best photos per entry.
• Prints, slides or digital images are acceptable. Submit digital photos by
e-mail to SkyNewsPOW@aol.com in JPEG format. Submit photos by mail to: SkyNews, 319 Berriedale Road, Burk’s Falls, ON P0A 1C0. Please do not submit slides in glass mounts. Digital images submitted by mail must be on disk in JPEG, GIF, TIFF or PICT format.
• Winning photos will be selected by the editors, publisher and art director of SkyNews and will be published in the September/October 2007 issue of SkyNews.
• Composite images (for example, those with foregrounds added digitally) are not eligible.
• Please include as many of the following details as possible: film type, camera make, lens, focal ratio, exposure time, location and date. Put your name, phone number and address on the back of each print or on the front of each slide mount or disk, or include in your e-mail.
• SkyNews is not responsible for loss of or damage to materials submitted. Mailed photos will be retained on file unless accompanied by a self-addressed return envelope with sufficient postage.
This contest is open to residents of Canada only.
