Project Starshine - Contest RulesA prize of $5000 in U.S. currency will be awarded for the best image of the re-entry of the Starshine satellite. The image may recorded by any person of any nation on photographic film, CCD or videotape. Competing images will be screened by a committee of judges, consisting of Mr. Paul Maley, Houston, TX (chair), Dr. Geoff Andersen, Colorado Springs, CO, and Mr. George Varros, Mount Airy, MD. The committee's decision will be final. If no images are received, no prize will be awarded, and the money will be retained for a subsequent contest that will be established relating to the objectives of the Starshine project. Similarly, if the committee is unable to establish the authenticity of any submitted image, after using the image itself and certain additional information that must accompany the image, as detailed below, no prize will awarded. Here again, the prize money will be retained for disbursement to the winner of a subsequent contest relating to the objectives of the Starshine Project. Images must be sent by registered mail, return receipt, or international equivalent, to:
Paul D. Maley Phone: 281-244-0208 For an entry to be considered for the $5000 prize, the outside envelope containing the submitted image must be postmarked no later than March 1, 2000. If more than one person is involved in obtaining the winning image, it will be the sole responsibility of the person submitting that image to divide the prize, as appropriate, with the members of his or her team. If more than one submitted image is deemed by the judging committee to be of equivalent quality, the committee will use its collective judgment to determine how the $5000 is to be divided among those persons submitting the equivalent images. All entries become the property of Project STARSHINE for purposes of reproduction in any form, whatsoever, and subsequent distribution to all parties, whomsoever. No original images will be returned to any submitting party; however, a reproduced copy of an image will be mailed to a submitting party, upon request.
Emulsion based Photography To submit a photograph of Starshine's reentry you will need to include the following information on a separate piece of paper:
Special Notes: Charge-coupled Device (CCD) Data must be submitted either as a raw data dump from the CCD-computer setup or as an image file. For a raw-data transmittal, send the data with a copy of the driver used and CPU and Operating System requirements (e.g. data would be zipped and sent with the operating system driver used to interface the CCD with the computer, we would need to know the driver requirements such as Windows 98, Mac OS 8.6, etc.). For image file data, use JPEG and indicate compression settings, or use TIFF format. Data can be submitted on any media (high density floppy disk, Zip cartridge, CD-ROM, Jazz cartridge). CCD Multiple Frame Data must be submitted either as a series of raw data dumps from the CCD-computer setup or as a series of image files. For a raw-data transmittal, send the data with a copy of the driver used and CPU and Operating System requirements (e.g. data would be zipped and sent with the operating system driver used to interface the CCD with the computer, we would need to know the driver requirements such as Windows 98, Mac OS 8.6, etc.). For image file data, use JPEG and indicate compression settings, or use TIFF format. Data can be submitted on any media (high density floppy disk, Zip cartridge, CD-ROM, Jazz cartridge, or can be sent as an attachment to an email to gvarros@hq.nasa.gov). To submit CCD Images of Starshine's reentry you will need to include the following information on a separate piece of paper: Notes: Set your system clock as accurately as possible to either Local Time or Universal Time (UTC). We want to see the actual system time that the images were taken. Video Frame(s) To submit a video of Starshine's reentry you will need to include the following information on a separate piece of paper: Digital image frame(s) Data must be submitted either as a series of raw data dumps from the CCD-camera setup or as a series of image files. For a raw-data transmittal, send the data with a copy of the driver used to download the images to a computer (e.g. data would be zipped and sent with the operating system driver used to interface the camera with the computer, we would need to know the driver requirements such as Windows 98, Mac OS 8.6, etc.). For image file data, use JPEG and indicate compression settings, or use TIFF format. Data can be submitted on any media (high density floppy disk, Zip cartridge, CD-ROM, Jazz cartridge). To submit digital images of Starshine's reentry you will need to include the following information on a separate piece of paper:
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