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From dawn eclipses to distant planets and galaxies, the winning images of Insight Investment's 2010 Photographer of the Year contest are enough to send you heavenly shivers down your spine. & Nbsp;

Announced by the Royal Observatory of Greenwich in London, this amazing collection includes nothing but the variety. There is a panorama of the northern lights on the Lofoten Islands in Norway, a man and his dog Floyd surrounded by Mars, Saturn and the galactic core of the Milky Way galaxy, and a sequence of Mars images that follows the progress of a large storm dust.

The contest, which is now in its eleventh year, has registered a record number of more than 4,600 registrations from 90 countries around the world. Here are the best images of the galaxy by category, each including a winner, a second and a "very recommended".

Our Moon: Winner

Hungarian photographer László Francsics won first prize of £ 10,000 with his image "Into the Shadow" (main image, above), which the judge calls "masterly". Taken in Budapest, Hungary, the photograph represents a creative and artistic composition of the phases of the total lunar eclipse that occurred on January 21, 2019. "For a single multi-exposure image that captures this event with such precision of positioning, creative innovation and beauty are quite remarkable, "said Ed Robinson, one of the competition's judges. . "The colors of our atmosphere projected on the Moon's disk during the eclipse are not only pleasing from an artistic point of view, but also allow to understand such events that can reveal aspects of our own part, thin but essential, of our atmosphere. "

Our moon: finalist

"It is not always possible to photograph the moon with so much detail during the day," says photographer Rafael Ruiz, who took the picture in Morella, Castellón, Spain. "The image represents the lunar craters of the crescent crescent moon, with the blue sky of the day as a backdrop."

Our moon: highly recommended

"The image shows the magnificent crown of the moon and the movement of clouds resembling colorful brushstrokes on a painting," says Yiming Li, who took pictures of Dongguan, China, on a camera. Canon 6D photo. "It looks like a feather of seven colors coming out of the moon."

Aurores: Winner

Nicolai Brügger from Germany traveled the snow at the top of the Offersøykammen mountain in Norway to capture the aurora borealis over the Lofoten Islands, but after many hours of waiting.

Aurores: finalist

A brightly colored display of Australian lights high in the night sky on the east coast of Tasmania, photographed by James Stone. The great magellanic cloud also appears at the top center of the image.

Aurores: highly recommended

The photographer Nykøbing Mors captured a green Northern Lights Aurora among the clouds of Limfjord in northern Denmark.

Galaxies: Winner

This is a deep picture of the particular elliptical galaxy NGC 3923, which features a myriad of concentric shells resulting from past fusions with other nearby galaxies. Recent research has documented 42 concentric shells in NGC 3923, more than in any other known galaxy. The picture was taken in Auckland, New Zealand.

Galaxies: finalist

This is a high definition image in hydrogen-alpha mosaic of the great magellanic cloud of Ignacio Diaz Bobillo. The Tarantula Nebula is in the lower right corner, with its spider-shaped stormy core, surrounded by arch-shaped filaments. The image took 46 hours of data integration. & Nbsp;

Galaxies: highly recommended

This is a close up of our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, taken from Castile-La Mancha, Spain, with a mosaic of three photographs. It also includes the M32 and M110 satellite galaxies. The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy collide in about 5,860 million years, integrating into a larger galaxy.

Our sun: winner

This image of Buffalo, NY, is a close-up of the solar branch during the current "solar minimum" period of the Sun cycle.

A group of protuberances, also called coronal mass ejections (CMEs), stand out against the background of space, while the tonality has been inverted to express the depth and contrast of the characteristics of the Sun's chromosphere.

The data, captured by Alan Friedman using a monochrome black-and-white camera, was colorized.

Our sun: finalist

The active area AR12714 © Gabriel Corban (Romania) – RUNNER-UP

The image from Bucharest, Romania, shows a sunspot, with different shades of color representing the variable temperature of the plasma. It was shot in alpha-hydrogen frequency and is an inverted version, treated in false colors.

Our sun: highly recommended

Since the Sun is currently in the least active phase of its eleven year cycle – the "solar minimum" – photographers usually do not have much to capture.

However, Jason Guenzel of Milford, Michigan, captured this importance when shooting in the blakc and white H-alpha wavelength. It has been colored to give the impression of the view through the earth's atmosphere. & nbsp;

People and space: winner

The image of Hadrian's Wall, Hexham, UK, depicts photographer Ben Bush and his dog, Floyd, surrounded by Mars, Saturn and the galactic core of the Milky Way galaxy. The picture contains everything the photographer likes about photography; the relationship with the landscape, family, dogs and friends. & nbsp;

People and space: finalist

Here is an image of the International Space Station (ISS) flying overhead Horton Tower in Dorset, UK by a hazy evening.

The Horton Tower is believed to have been built for the purpose of serving as an observatory. At both exhibitions taken for the skies, the photographer perfectly captured the ISS flyover directly above the tower. This image includes a long exposure of 2 minutes for the foreground, then is merged with the two exposures followed by 60 seconds for the night sky.

People and space: highly recommended

This image of James Stone in South Arm, Tasmania, is a stacked star trail, combined to show an hour and a half rotation of the Earth in space and time, and reflect on the waters shallow salt marsh.

Planets, comets and asteroids: winner

Here is a sequence of images of Andy Casely in Sydney, Australia, dating from 2018, which shows the progress of a large dust storm in the world, which ultimately paid the March rover Opportunity of The NASA.

Planets, comets and asteroids: finalist

The world famous photographer Damien Peach shows Jupiter of the entire face of the planet near his opposition of 2018. We can see thunderstorms of all shapes and sizes, as well as the famous Great Red Spot near the center. The moon Io and its shadow are also visible since they were captured in transit.

Planets, comets and asteroids: warmly congratulated

This photo of "Black Saturn" by Martin Lewis in St Albans, Hertfordshire, was captured using a methane band filter to reveal the high concentrations of methane – visible in the form of black rings – in the atmosphere of Saturn.

Skyscapes: Winner

This mystical image of a shooting star and faded poplars was taken in the Mongolian region of Ejina, in the historical kingdom of Xi Xia.

Skyscapes: Finalist

This photo, "Galactic lighthouse" of the Latvian photographer Ruslan Merzlyakov, shows Orion posing on the lighthouse at Hirtshals in northern Denmark.

Skyscapes: highly recommended

Many photographers are dedicated to capturing SpaceX rockets during their takeoff, but few are attempting to capture rocket plumes. Brandon Yoshizawa's "Flower Power" image from Aspendell, California, does just that, including the exhaust plume of the launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket right after launch.

This photo was taken with a 50mm lens offering a much closer and more detailed view. This shot consists of two mixed exposures; one for the foreground and one for the sky, with no movement of the camera between the exposures.

Stars and Nebulae: Winner

On the right, NGC 3576, also known as the Statue of Liberty nebula, an active stellate nursery, on the left, NGC 3603, further away, a much larger but more distant stellar nursery. The picture was taken from General Pacheco, Buenos Aires.

Stars and nebulae: finalist

The nebula of the horse's head is a small dark nebula of the constellation Orion. The two-panel mosaic of Bob Franke (right) of Chino Valley, Arizona, shows it in the form of hydrogen curtains.

The nebula of the horse's head (Barnard 33) is very difficult to see, even with very large telescopes. The flame nebula, also called NGC 2024, is located in the lower left corner. The set is part of the Orion Molecular Cloud, located about 1,500 light-years from Earth.

Stars and nebulae: highly recommended

The image of Lluís Romero Ventura in Àger, Spain, of the elephant trunk nebula (vdB 142) is part of a star formation region located in the constellation Cepheus and at a distance of 2,450 light years. nebulae that actively form stars.

Young photographer of the year in astronomy: Winner

This image of "stellar flower" by Davy van der Hoeven, 11, in the Netherlands, belongs to the magnificent nebula of La Rosette. With the help of his father, he built the required equipment and together, for three nights in November, they captured 16-hour and 15-minute images of the Rosette Nebula at the same time. using different filters.

Young photographer of the year in astronomy: second prize

To capture this sunspot, Matúš Motlo, 14, from Plevník-Drienové, Slovakia, filmed a video and then projected it into AS! 3, and then refined it in RegiStax, making additional changes.

Young photographer of the year in astronomy: highly recommended

What is the brightest planet in our solar system, visible in the light of day and often seen as a crescent? Here, Venus was beautifully photographed by 12-year-old Thea Hutchinson of London, UK, using various filters, including one to capture the cloudy peaks of Venus, a thick orange band in the center of the planet.

Each filtered image consisted of a stack of the best 25% of the 3,000 images processed in AutoStakkert and Registax, the final image being built in Photoshop. Astrophotography is difficult and takes time!

Young photographer of the year in astronomy: highly recommendedCaptured with the help of a small telescope and an iPad, this image is based on painting "Crucifixion; The last judgment, ca. 1440-41 & # 39 ;, by Jan van Eyck, where a gibbous moon of day rises on Jerusalem. The representation of the Moon is turned 180 degrees from Van Eyck's moon, but Casper Kentish of Ponthirwaun Ceredigion, Wales, UK – only nine years old – prefers this version.

Young photographer of the year in astronomy: highly recommended

The 15-year-old British photographer Tom Mogford chose Andromeda because, even though he's six moons wide, he does not see himself at the naked eye. Yet, once photographed, it reveals a vibrant expanse of dust and stars. The image was taken for several nights in the summer of 2018 in Goult, in the south of France.

Sir Patrick Moore Award for Best Newcomer: Joint Winner

This band of the Orion constellation includes some of the best targets in the Northern Hemisphere with the help of a modest camera astro-modified Canon 450D and a small telescope. He was shot from Embleton, Northumberland, UK.

Sir Patrick Moore Award for Best Newcomer: Joint Winner

Photo taken from Ningxia in China by photographer Shuchang Dong, this image entitled "Sky and soil, stars and sand" was taken when the moon shone brightly over the sand dunes of north-central China.

After enjoying a sunset and the rise of the moon, Dong began taking pictures of this magnificent starry sky with the help of a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV camera.

Robotic range: Winner

Infrared Saturn © László Francsics (Hungary) – WINNER

We arrive at the end of the circle with a final image also taken by László Francsics, the same photographer who won the overall prize "Into the Shadow". This image reveals the very close infrared colors of Saturn, combining red and two other infrared planetary filters. He was taken apart using Chilescope in the remote area of ​​Atacama in Chile.

"Each year, the contest draws the most impressive astrophotography taken worldwide and this year was no exception," says Steve Marsh, Artistic Editor at BBC Sky at Night Magazineand a judge for the competition. "Imagers were also intent on capturing rare celestial objects and pushing their equipment further than ever before. This astronomy can inspire such passion and devotion is something of which we can all be very proud. "

The photographer of the year Insight Investment in Astronomy is managed by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in association with Insight Investment and BBC Sky at Night Magazine.

Wishing you a clear sky and big eyes.

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From dawn eclipses to distant planets and galaxies, the winning images of the 2010 Insight Investment Photographer in Astronomy are enough to send you heavenly shivers down your spine.

Announced by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London, this superb collection contains nothing but the variety. There is a panorama of the northern lights on the Lofoten Islands in Norway, a man and his dog Floyd surrounded by Mars, Saturn and the galactic core of the Milky Way galaxy, and a sequence of Mars images that follows the progress of a large storm dust.

The contest, which is now in its eleventh year, has registered a record number of more than 4,600 registrations from 90 countries around the world. Here are the best images of the galaxy by category, each including a winner, a second and a "very recommended".

Our Moon: Winner

Hungarian photographer László Francsics won first prize of £ 10,000 with his image "Into the Shadow" (main image, above), which the judge calls "masterly". Taken in Budapest, Hungary, the photograph represents a creative and artistic composition of the phases of the total lunar eclipse that occurred on January 21, 2019. "For a single multi-exposure image that captures this event with such precision of positioning, creative innovation and beauty are quite remarkable, "said Ed Robinson, one of the competition's judges. . "The colors of our atmosphere projected on the Moon's disk during the eclipse are not only pleasing from an artistic point of view, but also allow to understand such events that can reveal aspects of our own part, thin but essential, of our atmosphere. "

Our moon: finalist

"It is not always possible to photograph the moon with so much detail during the day," says photographer Rafael Ruiz, who took the picture in Morella, Castellón, Spain. "The image represents the lunar craters of the crescent crescent moon, with the blue sky of the day as a backdrop."

Our moon: highly recommended

"The image shows the magnificent crown of the moon and the movement of clouds resembling colorful brushstrokes on a painting," says Yiming Li, who took pictures of Dongguan, China, on a camera. Canon 6D photo. "It looks like a feather of seven colors coming out of the moon."

Aurores: Winner

Nicolai Brügger from Germany traveled the snow at the top of the Offersøykammen mountain in Norway to capture the aurora borealis over the Lofoten Islands, but after many hours of waiting.

Aurores: finalist

A brightly colored display of Australian lights high in the night sky on the east coast of Tasmania, photographed by James Stone. The great magellanic cloud also appears at the top center of the image.

Aurores: highly recommended

The photographer Nykøbing Mors captured a green Northern Lights Aurora among the clouds of Limfjord in northern Denmark.

Galaxies: Winner

This is a deep picture of the particular elliptical galaxy NGC 3923, which features a myriad of concentric shells resulting from past fusions with other nearby galaxies. Recent research has documented 42 concentric shells in NGC 3923, more than in any other known galaxy. The picture was taken in Auckland, New Zealand.

Galaxies: finalist

This is a high definition image in hydrogen-alpha mosaic of the great magellanic cloud of Ignacio Diaz Bobillo. The Tarantula Nebula is in the lower right corner, with its spider-shaped stormy core, surrounded by arch-shaped filaments. The picture took 46 hours of data integration.

Galaxies: highly recommended

This is a close up of our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, taken from Castile-La Mancha, Spain, with a mosaic of three photographs. It also includes the M32 and M110 satellite galaxies. The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy collide in about 5,860 million years, integrating into a larger galaxy.

Our sun: winner

This image of Buffalo, NY, is a close-up of the solar branch during the current "solar minimum" period of the Sun cycle.

A group of protuberances, also called coronal mass ejections (CMEs), stand out against the background of space, while the tonality has been inverted to express the depth and contrast of the characteristics of the Sun's chromosphere.

The data, captured by Alan Friedman using a monochrome black-and-white camera, was colorized.

Our sun: finalist

The active area AR12714 © Gabriel Corban (Romania) – RUNNER-UP

The image from Bucharest, Romania, shows a sunspot, with different shades of color representing the variable temperature of the plasma. It was shot in alpha-hydrogen frequency and is an inverted version, treated in false colors.

Our sun: highly recommended

Since the Sun is currently in the least active phase of its eleven year cycle – the "solar minimum" – photographers usually do not have much to capture.

However, Jason Guenzel of Milford, Michigan, captured this importance when shooting in the blakc and white H-alpha wavelength. It has been colored to give the impression of the view through the earth's atmosphere.

People and space: winner

The image of Hadrian's Wall, Hexham, UK, depicts photographer Ben Bush and his dog, Floyd, surrounded by Mars, Saturn and the galactic core of the Milky Way galaxy. The picture contains everything the photographer likes about photography; the relationship with the landscape, family, dogs and friends.

People and space: finalist

Here is an image of the International Space Station (ISS) flying over the Horton Tower in Dorset, UK, at a hazy evening.

The Horton Tower is believed to have been built for the purpose of serving as an observatory. At both exhibitions taken for the skies, the photographer perfectly captured the ISS flyover directly above the tower. This image includes a long exposure of 2 minutes for the foreground, then is merged with the two exposures followed by 60 seconds for the night sky.

People and space: highly recommended

This image of James Stone in South Arm, Tasmania, is a stacked star trail, combined to show an hour and a half rotation of the Earth in space and time, and reflect on the waters shallow salt marsh.

Planets, comets and asteroids: winner

Here is a sequence of images of Andy Casely in Sydney, Australia, dating from 2018, which shows the progress of a large dust storm in the world, which ultimately paid the March rover Opportunity of The NASA.

Planets, comets and asteroids: finalist

The world famous photographer Damien Peach shows Jupiter of the entire face of the planet near his opposition of 2018. We can see thunderstorms of all shapes and sizes, as well as the famous Great Red Spot near the center. The moon Io and its shadow are also visible since they were captured in transit.

Planets, comets and asteroids: warmly congratulated

This photo of "Black Saturn" by Martin Lewis in St Albans, Hertfordshire, was captured using a methane band filter to reveal the high concentrations of methane – visible in the form of black rings – in the atmosphere of Saturn.

Skyscapes: Winner

This mystical image of a shooting star and faded poplars was taken in the Mongolian region of Ejina, in the historical kingdom of Xi Xia.

Skyscapes: Finalist

This photo, "Galactic lighthouse" of the Latvian photographer Ruslan Merzlyakov, shows Orion posing on the lighthouse at Hirtshals in northern Denmark.

Skyscapes: highly recommended

Many photographers are dedicated to capturing SpaceX rockets during their takeoff, but few are attempting to capture rocket plumes. Brandon Yoshizawa's "Flower Power" image from Aspendell, California, does just that, including the exhaust plume of the launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket right after launch.

This photo was taken with a 50mm lens offering a much closer and more detailed view. This shot consists of two mixed exposures; one for the foreground and one for the sky, with no movement of the camera between the exposures.

Stars and Nebulae: Winner

On the right, NGC 3576, also known as the Statue of Liberty nebula, an active stellate nursery, on the left, NGC 3603, further away, a much larger but more distant stellar nursery. The picture was taken from General Pacheco, Buenos Aires.

Stars and nebulae: finalist

The nebula of the horse's head is a small dark nebula of the constellation Orion. The two-panel mosaic of Bob Franke (right) of Chino Valley, Arizona, shows it in the form of hydrogen curtains.

The nebula of the horse's head (Barnard 33) is very difficult to see, even with very large telescopes. The flame nebula, also called NGC 2024, is located in the lower left corner. The set is part of the Orion Molecular Cloud, located about 1,500 light-years from Earth.

Stars and nebulae: highly recommended

The image of Lluís Romero Ventura in Àger, Spain, of the elephant trunk nebula (vdB 142) is part of a star formation region located in the constellation Cepheus and at a distance of 2,450 light years. nebulae that actively form stars.

Young photographer of the year in astronomy: Winner

This image of "stellar flower" by Davy van der Hoeven, 11, in the Netherlands, belongs to the magnificent nebula of La Rosette. With the help of his father, he built the necessary equipment and together, for three nights in November, they captured 16-hour and 15-minute images of the Rosette nebula at the same time. using different filters.

Young photographer of the year in astronomy: second prize

To capture this sunspot, Matúš Motlo, 14, from Plevník-Drienové, Slovakia, filmed a video and then analyzed it with AS! 3, and then refined it in RegiStax, making additional changes.

Young photographer of the year in astronomy: highly recommended

What is the brightest planet in our solar system, visible in the light of day and often seen as a crescent? Here, Venus is beautifully photographed by 12 years old Thea Hutchinson from London, UK, using various filters to capture the cloud to Venus-a thick orange band in the center of the planet.

Filtered by AutoStakkert and Registax, with filtered image in Photoshop. Astrophotography is hard and time-consuming!

Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year: Highly CommendedCaptured using a small telescope and an iPad, this image is based on the painting 'The Crucifixion; The last judgment, ca. 1440-41 ', by Jan van Eyck, where a daytime Gibbous Moon is rising over Jerusalem. The depiction of the Moon is turned 180 ° compared to Van Eyck's moon, Casper Kentish goal of Ponthirwaun Ceredigion, Wales, UK-just nine years old-prefers this version.

Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year: Highly Commended

15 years old photographer Tom Mogford from the UK thing Andromeda because it has the width of six moons it can not be seen with the naked eye, yet it still reveals a vibrant expanse of dust and stars. The image was taken over several times in the summer of 2018 in Goult in the south of France.

Sir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomer: Joint Winner

This strip of the Orion constellation includes some of the best targets in the Northern Hemisphere using a modest Canon 450D astro-modified camera and a small telescope. It was shot from Embleton, Northumberland, UK.

Sir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomer: Joint Winner

Shot from Ningxia, China by photographer Shuchang Dong, this image called ‘Sky and Ground, Stars and Sand’ was taken when the Moon was shining bright over the sand dunes of north-central China.

After enjoying a sunset and the rise of the Moon, Dong began to take photos of the magnificent starry sky using a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV camera.

Robotic Scope: Winner

Infrared Saturn © László Francsics (Hungary) – WINNER

Here we come full circle with a final image also taken by László Francsics, the same photographer who won the overall prize for ‘Into the Shadow.’ This image reveals the very near infrared colours of Saturn, using the combination of the red and other two infrared planetary filters. It was taken remotely using Chilescope in Chile’s remote Atacama region.

“Each year the competition attracts the most awe inspiring astrophotography taken from across the globe and this year was no exception,” says Steve Marsh, Art Editor at the BBC Sky at Night Magazine, and a judge for the competition. “There was also a real drive by imagers to capture rare celestial objects and to push their equipment further than ever before. That astronomy can inspire such passion and devotion is something we can all be very proud of.”

Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year is run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in association with Insight Investment and BBC Sky at Night Magazine.

Wishing you clear skies and wide eyes.