This years competition was of a high standard and in some categories we had some very close voting between the winner and runner-up.
Three were three main categories for Beginner & Advanced for Solar System, Wide field, Deep Sky:
The Winning Astrophotgraphers were:
- Solar System : Beginner, won by Natalie Lowes for Jupiter
- Solar System : Advanced, won by Jack Newton for aSolar Eclipse, with Totality beginnig with the diamond ring effect
- Wide field : Beginner, won by Paul Meade for the Orion Constellation.
- Wide field : Advanced, won by Owen Lowery for the Aurora Borealis (or the northern lights).
- Deep Sky : Beginner, No Entries were submitted for this category.
- Deep Sky : Advanced, won by Ian Aiken for the Elephant’s Trunk nebula (IC 1396)
, located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth.
The Runners-up astrophotgraphers were:
- Solar System : Beginner, runner-up by Suleiman Alhadhrami for the Crescent Moon, taken in Oman
- Solar System : Advanced, runner-up by Keith Johnson for Jupiter
- Wide field : Beginner, runner-up by Suleiman Alhadhrami for the Orion Constellation.
- Wide field : Advanced, runner-up by Graham Darke for the Comet PannStars.
- Deep Field : Beginner,No Entries were submitted for this category.
- Deep Field : Advanced, runner-up by Paul Jenkins for the Leo Galaxy Tiplet
A selection of the winning & runner-up astrophotographers images and certificate presentations are shown below: