Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition

Martin-O2 · ‎19-09-2019

Hey everyone,

The Royal Observatory Greenwich has just announced the winners of their annual Astronomy Photographer competition. There were over 4,000 entries and some truly stunning images which made judging the competition extremely difficult!

The overall winner was taken by Hungarian photographer László Francsics for this stunning photo "Into the Shadow" which depicts 35 phases of a total lunar eclipse!

There were many categories for the competition including the moon, from which the overall winner was selected.

I've shared the winner of each category below but there are hundreds of other shortlist images over on the Astronomy Photographer website so check them out and let me know what your favourites are!

Aurorae

Stars and Nebulae

Galaxies

Our Sun

People and Space

Planets, Comets and Asteroids

Robotic Scope

Skyscapes

Best Newcomer (Joint Winner)

Young

As mentioned above you can see all of the shortlisted images on the Astronomy Photographer website so check them out and let me know which ones you like best!

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Mi-Amigo · ‎19-09-2019

Some stunning photos @Martin-O2

In my opinion, @viridis brilliant photo -

posted in [y]our photographs in Off Topic should have been entered

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TallTrees · ‎19-09-2019

Wonderful photos unbelievable and I agree with @Mi-Amigo

Viridis has some fantastic photos.

Mine won't be in as I could just get a white dot in the sky which was supposed to be

a new moon @Martin-O2

but ~ there may be a chance for me next time, will have to improve my phone though

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Cleoriff · ‎19-09-2019

Some beautiful images. Hard to choose the best one...

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JAZZ-trad · ‎19-09-2019

These are spectacular, I especially like the Aurorae @Martin-O2

jonsie · ‎19-09-2019

The one of our sun is stunning.

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Cleoriff · ‎19-09-2019

The Planets Comets and Asteroids section look too good to be true if honest.

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Martin-O2 · ‎20-09-2019

Agreed @Mi-Amigo that image certainly could have won the comp!

You should keep at it @TallTrees you'll only get better with practice.

@JAZZ-trad did you have a favourite out of the Aurorae pictures?

I would have been useless as a judge on this @Cleoriff, I'd want to pick them all as joint winner!

I'm always amazed at pictures of the sun @jonsie. Especially the close up detailed ones that show the structure of the surface.

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JAZZ-trad · ‎20-09-2019

The watcher @Martin-O2

Martin-O2 · ‎20-09-2019

Great choice @JAZZ-trad !

I think my favourite from that category was "Aurora is a Bird"

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