Well its time to bring this to a close.
There was light participation for this challenge. I enjoy night photography, I apologize if it isn't to everyone's liking.
D1N0 - You brought the only somewhat abstract method to the challenge. You shifted the focus to the Queen Mary
tuggie76 - You have two entries, one color and the other B&W. The color entry is the brightest of the entries, unfortunately that introduced some noise into the night sky. Because of this I like your B&W entry a little better. Nicely sharpened with good contrast.
tood - You are a long time supporter of these post processing challenges and your contributions are always appreciated. I like the excellent balance you obtained with bringing out the details, while still preserving the darkness of the night.
noelcmn - You maintained the darkness of the night in your contribution.
Judging these is always a challenge to me. I probably should just select based on my subjective opinion of the contributions, but I also like to keep people involved and hopefully encourage participation by rotating it around and therefore because D1N0 just hosted the previous challenge and #266 and todd challenge #269 & #265, I am going to look to one of the other two for the next host. But then again tuggie76 hosted #267 and noelcmn #263, but between tuggie76 and noelcmn and think I will select tuggie76's B&W contribution to secure the honor of hosting #274.
Thank you everyone!
Here is what I came up with for the image: