Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019: highlights from the awards ceremony

BBC Sky at Night Magazine was live at the IIAPY 2019 awards ceremony to speak to this year's winners and judges.

September 30, 2019 at 7:17 pm

View a gallery of this year’s winners here.

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45 million lightyears from Earth lies NGC 1097, a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Fornax with a beautiful star-bursting nuclear ring surrounding it. This image was captured using the MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope operated by the European Souther Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert. Credit: ESO/TIMER Survey

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Photo location: Luwuk, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

Equipment: Canon EOS 5D Mk II DSLR camera, Sigma DG OS HSM 150-600mm lens.

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Keeper of the Light James Stone, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia, 21 July 2017. Equipment: Nikon D750 camera, 15 mm lens. (IIAPY 2018 category: People & Space).

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