Accessibility Links

Subscribe
  1. Home
  2. Science
  3. Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2017: winners announced

Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2017: winners announced

See the winning astrophotos from the 2017 Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

The Rho Ophiuchi Clouds, by Artem Mironov (Russia) Hakos Farm, Windhoek, Namibia, 6 August 2016 Equipment: Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR camera, Sky-Watcher 200P reflector, Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro SynScan mount.

The Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition is the biggest astrophotography contest in the world, welcoming images of the space captured by astrophotographers from around the globe.

Advertisement

Galaxies, nebulae, aurorae, nightscapes, stars, moons and planets; virtually every celestial phenomenon is included in the entry categories for this annual competition, organised by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in partnership with BBC Sky at Night Magazine.

Advertisement

Judges for the 2017 competition included Rebecca Roth of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, along with photographer Ed Robinson, ESO’s Oana Sandu, The Sky at Night’s Pete Lawrence and Chris Lintott, comedian Jon Culshaw and BBC Sky at Night Magazine editor Chris Bramley.

Tags

You may also like

Zdenek Bardon, Sumava mountain, Czech Republic. Equipment: Nikon D810A, Takahashi FSQ106/530, tripod.
Astrophotography

In pictures: total lunar eclipse, 27 July 2018

Andromeda Galaxy, Charles Thody, Pembrokeshire, 8 September 2015. Equipment: Modified Canon EOS 40D DSLR camera, Sky-Watcher Equinox-80 ED apo refractor, Sky-Watcher NEQ6 PRO SynScan mount.
Science

Readers’ images: top galaxy astrophotos

Transport the Soul, Brad Goldpaint, Moab, Utah, USA, 20 May 2017. Equipment: Nikon D810 DLSR camera, 14mm f/4.0 lens. Category: People & Space (Overall winner)
Astrophotography

IIAPY 2018 Winners announced

Astronomers have made the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster using three of NASA's Great Observatories. This multi-wavelength image shows this galaxy cluster, IDCS 1426.5+3508, in X-rays from Chandra (blue), visible light from Hubble (green), and infrared light from Spitzer (red). This rare galaxy cluster weighs almost 500 trillion Suns and it was observed when the Universe was less than a third of its current age. It is the most massive galaxy cluster detected at such an early epoch, and, thus, has important implications for understanding how these mega-structures formed and evolved in the young Universe.
Astrophotography

Eye On The Sky: the top astro images of 2016