Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2020

[Pikaia]

I am surprised that the winning photographer went to such lengths to produce that effect when it is easily done with ordinary image processing software!

https://www.theguardian.com/science/gal ... n-pictures

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[Lowjiber]

It is no surprise that Alexandria Hart won the Solar Division. She's the best solar imager in the world. I'm a big fan.

Here she is talking about the image...
https://youtu.be/JXiW20S_710

Thanks for the link.

Clear Skies & Stay Safe

[KingNothing13]

Wow - there are some incredibly stunning images there.

[Graeme1858]

The Moon Jupiter conjunction is cool!

The Albireo picture is really sad.

Regards

Graeme

[SirTalllPaul]

Some amazing photos. The overall winner in particular looks amazing.

[gregl]

Note that the young winner is an 11-year-old girl who lives somewhere near the Indian Ocean.

[carastro]

Really surprised to hear these comments on the western side of the Pond. Comments have been the opposite on the UK forums, (which include other Nationals). Most people cannot understand why the winner was awarded - in fact most Astrophotographers think it is awful.

I really think they should re-name this competition, Astroart competition. To say it is Astronomy Photographer leads one to think it is Astrophotography, which clearly it isn't it's all arty farty stuff that gets the awards.

Carole

[yobbo89]

some nice images, love the dolphin nebula, not a fan over processed images ,don't realy like the bokeh effect on space images aswell.a very subjective hobby/ art , i've seen on pare work done here .

i don't know. , i think i would prefer the lmc without the anoying lasers in it haha..