Sunderland Astronomical Society’s Astrophotography Competition

It is that time of the year again, the Sunderland Astronomical Society’s Astrophotography Competition will held on Sunday 18th May 2014, from 7:00 pm, where the best of our SAS astrophotography images will be displayed and voted on at this competition event.

Traditionally, this is our end-of-season meeting and consequently enjoys something of a more relaxed atmosphere.

At the moment there will be three main categories on Solar System, Wide field, Deep Sky in beginner and advanced classes.

For example.:

• Solar System : Beginner;
• Solar System : Advanced;
• Wide field : Beginner;
• Wide field : Advanced;
• Deep Sky : Beginner;
• Deep Sky : Advanced;

and a winner and runners-up photos will be voted on for each category class.

The winners will receive prizes & the highly prized SAS Astrophotography certificates,

& the runners-up will receive the highly prized certificates.

Note 1: To submit your photos for the competition, bring them with you on the night of the competition or submit them to our chairman before the event.

Each submitted photo should be a printed photograph of your astronomical object/image with the following information on the back of each photo.

• Category;
• Class, i.e. Beginner or Advanced;
• Name of your astronomical object, associated identifier (for e.g. Orion Nebula, M42);
• Your name;
• Your contact details”, if required.

Note 2: It has been decided that the astrophotography competition this year will be open to Sunderland Astronomical Society members only.

So if you are not currently a SAS member and would like to submit your astro photos you will need to join &  fill out an application form and bring it with you on the night or join before the event.

A selection of the winning & runner-up astrophotographers images and certificate presentations will be shown website after the competition below:

The best of luck to all astro photo entries.