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Kynance Cove under the Milky Way Louise Jones (UK). Category: The Sir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomer. Equipment Nikon D7100 camera, Sigma 10-20 mm lens at 10 mm f/3.5, ISO 3200, 5 x 25-second exposures.

Circles and Curves, by Sean Goebel, California, USA. Category: Skyscapes. Equipment: Sony ILCE-7RIII camera, 12 mm f/2.8, ISO 2000, 33 x 4-minute exposures

Crossing the Madison, by Jake Mosher, Madison River, Montana, USA. Category: Skyscapes. Equipment: Nikon D850 camera, 35mm f/4, ISO 1600/640, multiple exposures between 110 and 180 seconds

Oregon Coast, by Marcin Zajac, Oregon, USA. Category: Skyscapes. Equipment: Nikon D800 camera, 35mm f/2, ISO 800, 4-minute exposure.

Ladder to the Stars, by Mihail Minkov, Shiroka Polyana Dam, Devin, Bulgaria. Category: Skyscapes. Equipment: Sony A7 III camera, 17 mm f/2.8, ISO 6400, 20-second exposure

Chidiya Tapu, by Vikas Chander, Chidiya Tapu, Andaman Islands, India. Category: Skyscapes. Equipment: Sony A7III camera, 12mm f/11 and f/2.8, ISO 100/800, 30-second and 240-second exposures

Diagonal, by Gen Kiryu, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Category: Skyscapes. Equipment: Nikon Z7 camera, 20mm f/1.8 lens. Sky: ISO 1600, 60-second exposure (stack of 35 frames). Foreground: ISO 2200, 30-second exposure (stack of 10 frames)

Suburbs of Carina Nebula by Ignacio Diaz Bobillo, General Pacheco, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Category: Stars & Nebulae. Equipment: QHY 600 camera, 1252mm f/7.2, 54 x 5-minute exposures in H-alpha and 61 x 5-min exposures in OIII (5 hours 24 minutes total exposure).

NGC 6888 – The Crescent Nebula by Bray Falls, Auberry, California, USA. Category: Stars & Nebulae. Equipment: ZWO-ASI6200MM-Cool camera, 3654 mm f/9, 45 hours of 10-minute exposures.

The Rolling Waves of Vela by Paul Milvain, Forbes, Victoria, Australia. Category: Stars & Nebulae. Equipment: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera, 1125 mm f/4, 9 x 300-second R/G/B exposures, 91 x 300- second H-alpha exposures, 53x 300-second SII exposures

Moonrise Over Los Angeles by Sean Goebel, Los Angeles, California, USA. Category: People & Space. Equipment: Sony ILCE-7M3 camera, 324 mm f/8, ISO 200, 1/60-second exposure

Riverside of Funakawa in Spring by Takanobu Kurosaki, Asahi, Shimoniikawa, Toyama, Japan. Equipment: Sony ILCE-7RM3 camera, 24 mm f/8, ISO 800, 13-second exposure.

The Starry Sky Over the World’s Highest National Highway by Yang Sutie, Shannan, Tibet. Equipment: SIGMA ILCE-1 camera,  20 mm f/2.8, ISO 800, 245-second total exposure.

Stacks and Stones by Derek Horlock, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, UK. Equipment: Nikon Z 6 Mark II camera, ISO 800., with Foreground: 24mm f/4, 300-second exposure. Sky:35mm f/4, 6 x 240-second exposures

Equinox Moon and Glastonbury Tor by Hannah Rochford, Glastonbury, Somerset, UK. Equipment: Sigma 150–600 mm telescope, SLIK tripod, Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera, 600 mm f/6.37, 1/8-second exposure.

Spectrum, by Stefan Liebermann, Vestrahorn, Iceland. Category: Aurorae Equipment: Sony ILCE-7SM3 camera, 14 mm f/1.8, 2-second exposure.

Solar Wind Power by Esa Pekka Isomursu, North Ostrobothnia, Finland. Category: Aurorae. Equipment: Canon R5 camera, at 14 mm f/2.8, 2-second exposure.

An Icelandic Saga by Carl Gallagher, Patreksfjörður, Westfjords, Iceland. Category: Aurorae. Equipment: Canon 6D Mark II camera, 24mm f/2, ISO 400, 10-second exposure.

Electric Wizardry by Shane Turgeon, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Category: Aurorae. Equipment: Canon 1DX camera, 14mm f/2.5, ISO 1000, 6-second exposure

Arp 271: Cosmic Collision by Mark Hanson, Mike Selby, El Sauce Observatory, Río Hurtado, Coquimbo Region, Chile. Category: Galaxies. Equipment: CDK 1000 telescope, FLI 16803 camera,6000 mm f/6, 32 hours total exposure. RGB values captured using RiDK 700 FL 4900 telescope.

Hydra’s Pinwheel by Peter Ward, Barden Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. Category: Galaxies. Equipment: SBIG STX-16803 and QHY 600M cameras, at 3400 mm f/8, exposure of 5 hours (H-alpha) and 6 hours (RGB).

Interacting Galaxies in Eridanus by Terry Robison, Carrapooee, Victoria, Australia. Category: Galaxies. Equipment: RCOS 10-inch telescope, SBIG STL-11000 camera, 2305 mm f/9.1 for 27.83-hour total exposure.

Inverted Minerals by Noah Kujawski, Lakeville, Minnesota, USA. Category: Our Moon. Equipment: Celestron CPC 1100 telescope, ZWO-ASI183MC camera (uncooled), 2800 mm f/10, 6-millisecond video frame.

Above the Lunar South Pole by Tom Glenn, San Diego, California, USA. Category: Our Moon. Equipment: ZWO ASI183MM camera, 610-nm pass and green filters, 2350 mm f/10. A composite of two images, first: 500 x 10-millisecond exposures; second 250 x 18-milliseond exposures.

Fly over the South Pole by Andrea Vanoni, Porto Mantovano, Lombardy, Italy. Category: Our Moon. Equipment: ZWO ASI178MM camera, Newton 405mm ‘Ares’ f/4.5 and Barlow 2.7x lens.

Solar Inferno by Stuart Green, Preston, Lancashire, UK. Category: Our Sun. Equipment: Basler acA1920-155um camera, 5100 mm f/34, 2,500 x 0.02-second exposures (50-second total exposure). Using a home-built telescope fitted with a Lunt 35 H-alpha etalon filter.

Clouds of Hydrogen Gas by Simon Tang, Los Angeles, California, USA. Category: Our Sun. Equipment: QHYCCD QHY5III-174M camera, 5040mm f/33.6, 1000 x 12-millisecond frame exposures.

The Jovian Family by Damian Peach, Río Hurtado, Coquimbo, Chile. Category: Planets, Comets & Asteroids. Equipment: ZWO ASI174MM camera, multiple video frames.

Partial Eclipse of the Sun in H-alpha by Alessandro Ravagnin, Romano d'Ezzelino, Veneto, Italy. Category: Our Sun. Equipment: QHYCCD QHYCCD183C camera, using a cooled Canon 200 mm f/4 with a Daystar Quark Prominence lens.

Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) by Lionel Majzik, Hakos, Khomas, Namibia. Category: Planets, Comets & Asteroids. Equipment: QHY 600M camera, 600 mm f/3, 2 x 120-second exposures (Lum), 1 x 120-second exposure (RGB)

Saturn and its Moons by Flávio Fortunato, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil. Category: Planets, Comets & Asteroids. Equipment: SVBONY SV305 camera, 1200 mm f/17, IR-cut filter, 0.02-second exposure.

Busy Star by Sergio Díaz Ruiz, using open source data from NOAA GOES-16, Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI)

Earth Cyanotype by Lynda Laird, Using open source data from Suomi NPP satellite.

Messier 78 by David Loose, Blanco, Texas, USA. Category: The Sir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomer. Equipment: ZWO ASI071MC Pro camera, 382 mm f/5.9, 90 x 300-second exposures. Using a William Optics Gran Turismo 81 IV telescope fitted with a Optolong L-Pro lens.

Radio Telescope by Liu Xuemei, Mingantu Town, Zhengxiangbai Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. Category: The Sir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomer. Equipment: Nikon D810A camera, 35 mm f/4, 120-second total exposure

IC 1871 – A Little Devil Riding on the Head of a Dragon by Nan Wang, Binyu Wang, Location: Enjoy Observatory, China. Category: Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year. Equipment: ZWO ASI6200MM PRO camera, 1100 mm f/7.3, 32-hour total exposure

Pickering’s Triangle in Light-Polluted City by Zezhen Zhou, Keqiao, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, China. Category: Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year. Equipment: SONY IMX533 and ZWO ASI533MC PRO cameras, 714mm f/7, 6-hour total exposure.

The final shortlist for Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022 has been revealed – but who will be crowned the winner?

Join us for a glittering night of astrophotography, discover the stories behind this year's images, and find out who will take home the grand prize.

Hosted by Royal Observatory astronomer Emily Drabek-Maunder and science journalist Melissa Brobby, this year's event will be live for anyone to join online.

Follow the hashtag #APY14 to hear the results as they happen, and watch the whole ceremony live on Facebook and YouTube.

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Shortlist revealed: https://rmg.co.uk/shortlist

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