An otherworldly {photograph} of a photo voltaic eclipse took prime prize on this yr’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.
The extremely sought-after award is given by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in England. The winning photographer, Shuchang Dong of China, captured the shot throughout an annular photo voltaic eclipse from the Ali area of Tibet on June 21, 2020. Titled, “The Golden Ring,” the {photograph} appears like simply that – a circle of sunshine towards a darkish, moody sky.
“You feel as if you could reach into the sky and place this onto your finger,” decide Steve Marsh said in a statement.
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This is the thirteenth yr of the astronomy images competitors. Winners obtain a money prize, and their images are exhibited on the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Dong’s “The Golden Ring” additionally took first place within the competitors’s “Our Sun” class. Other acknowledged photographs within the class present the small print of the solar’s floor and outer environment.
The winners of the competitors hail from across the globe. Taking dwelling prime prize within the “Our Moon” class was Nicolas Lefaudeux of France, who captured a picture of a crescent Venus rising over Earth’s moon. Third officer Dmitrii Rybalka received first place within the “Aurorae” class for an excellent inexperienced shot of the Northern Lights that he snapped from the bridge of a ship close to Russia’s Kara Strait. Deepal Ratnayaka of the United Kingdom received the “People and Space” class for a dreamy shot of a kid set towards star trails throughout a COVID-19 lockdown.
Winners took of their astronomical views from vastly totally different vantage factors. For “The Milky Ring,” a 360-degree view of the Milky Way that received the “Galaxies” class, Chinese photographer Zhong Wu stitched collectively photographs taken in Sichuan and Qinghai, China, and Lake Pukaki, New Zealand. The “Skyscapes” winner exhibits moonrise over Death Valley National Park, a picture that required U.S. photographer Jeffrey Lovelace to hike over sand dunes after sundown.
Some photographs required photographers to be in precisely the proper place at precisely the proper second: The “Planets, Comets and Asteroids” winner was taken by U.S. photographer Frank Kuszaj, who was making an attempt to shoot distant galaxies when a Quadrantid meteor fireball blew previous his lens. Others took days and days of picture seize to create the ultimate shot. The winner of the “Stars and Nebulae” class, American Terry Hancock, spent seven days photographing the California Nebula to place collectively his brightly coloured profitable picture.
The “Youth” award was taken dwelling by 15-year-old photographer 至璞 王 of China, who photographed the planets of the solar system over the course of a yr and stitched them into one “family photo.” Two different particular awards have been additionally given: The Manju Mehrotra Family Trust Prize for Best Newcomer, which went to newbie astrophotographer Paul Eckhardt from the United States for his {photograph} of the Falcon 9 rocket blasting by the moon, and the The Annie Maunder Prize for Image Innovation, which is given for the most effective imagery made with publicly obtainable information. That prize was cut up between two winners: Leonardo Di Maggio of the United Kingdom, for his mosaic of photographs of Saturn from the Cassini mission; and Sergio Díaz Ruiz of Spain, for a colourful view of Jupiter’s clouds produced from Hubble telescope imagery.
This yr’s awards ceremony was digital and passed off on Sept. 16. A video of the ceremony is available online.
Originally revealed on Live Science
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