IKO M16 Processing Competition - Winners!

[Grant]

Wow! What a tough one to judge, so many fantastic, unique, innovative entries (see them all here). It was a great pleasure to see them all coming in and it feels like a really successful data launch for the IKO project.

A group of us here at FLO plus David Wills from Pixel Skies picked our favourites and the results are:

Winner - Spongey

Runner Up: X6GAS

Runner Up: MartinB

Honourable Mention: Whistlin Bob

Thank you all for taking part and we are looking forward to the next data release in just over a weeks time.

I will be in touch with Spongey, X6Gas and MartinB to arrange their prizes 🙂

 

[x6gas]

Wow!  Thanks so much... I feel very honoured.  Congrats Spongey for the win, and MartinB and Whistlin Bob for the honorary mention.  Someone said it in the competition thread, though: we're all winners having the opportunity to process such great data.

[tooth_dr]

Congratulations everyone!!  When I first saw spongeys entry I thought that would be the winner.  And it was !  Well deserved indeed. 

[Spongey]

Honestly, I am shocked that I have won, but so proud of myself at the same time 😁  Having only started astrophotography seriously a couple of years ago I am honoured to have won this competition, especially against some of the incredible other entries!

Congratulations to everyone who entered, and a huge thanks to FLO for organising this for our community!

[carastro]

Congratulations everyone, I must admit I thought Spongey's process was one of the contenders.

Great fun, and here's to the next one, I think I oversharpened my entry.  

Carole  

[MarkAR]

Well done Spongey and all, excellent renditions. 

I particularly like Whistlin Bobs' Lovecraftian "Mountains of Madness" theme.

[happy-kat]

well done all and to the posters on the above images, great to see everyone's entries

[steppenwolf]

Well done everyone, there were some really great entries!

[Steve]

Congratulations everyone 🙂

An excellent start. Am looking forward to the next competition. 

[MartinB]

Well done Spongey, good call bythe judges, and well done everyone who submitted.  A really enjoyable exercise.  Big thanks to FLO.  Looking forward to more!

[tomato]

  Congratulations to the winners and all the entrants, and thanks for access to some class data. 

[Spikey]

A well deserved winner and great entries. So interesting to see how the same data is presented and can be presented so differently.

[Stub Mandrel]

Well done folks! Some great work gone on there.

Bonus to X6GAS for getting it the right way round! >ducks<

[Whistlin Bob]

Well done to all the winners!

Really enjoyed doing this, and it's a great opportunity to improve my image processing: looking forward to the next one 😁

[rubecula]

Congratulations to all the winners!  Having played around for some time with this data I understand how hard it was to get such good results.

[matt_baker]

Well done everyone!

[teoria_del_big_bang]

Congratulations to winner and runners up, well worthy as they are fantastic images 🙂 

Steve

[Allinthehead]

Congratulations to the winners, well deserved. Great data and project. 

[alacant]

Absolutely wonderful. Congratulations y enhorabuena to the winners. Brilliant interpretations.

Cheers and clear skies.