Now in its 5th year it is rated as one of the top 10 astrophotography competitions that you can enter by space.com!
With pleasure, we announce the winners from the final 16. All of which displayed that rare combination of talent, dedication and attention to detail required at this level of astrophotography. In that respect everyone is a winner.
In the public voting round Basudeb from India received over 5k votes to win an nPAE gift pack, and over 7k people took part in the voting.
We’d like to thank all the competitors for entering. They were all amazing images and we thoroughly enjoyed deciding who was going to get the prizes.
It wasn’t an easy choice, but are here are the judges’ final decisions….
In 3rd place, winning a £50 ($65) nPAE voucher, is Stargate by Marcin from the Unites States. Taken with a Nikon D8 and processed with Photoshop.
In 2nd place, and the winner of the nPAE Theia astro imaging filter changer, is A Jupiter Sized Prominence from Michael in Malaysia. Taken with a Lunt LS152T
And the 1st place winner collecting £200 ($262) and becoming the nPAE Northern Hemisphere Astrophotography Champion 2021! Is……………… Spaghetti Nebula from Yann in France! Taken with a Takahashi FSQ106 EDX4 with 645-
Yann literally drove thousands of miles around France to acquire all the data for this image and it has certainly paid off! The detail is not fully resolvable on screen, but check out this close up and the sharpness and colours of those back ground stars!
Thank you again to all those who entered making this competition possible. We look forward to everyone entering again next year. Remember the Sun, Moon and planets are all objects in the sky!
The nPAE astrophotography competition next moves to the Southern Hemisphere. The winner of which will be able to challenge Yann and Hugo, the reigning champion, for the title of nPAE World Champion Astrophotographer 2022 in a public vote.
The Southern Hemisphere stage runs from 1st June to 31st August.