Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019 – winning images

L ászló Francsics has been named the overall winner in the Royal Observatory Greenwich’sInsight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019 competition, for his composition showing the 35 phases of January ’s total lunar eclipse. Other winners include a panorama of the aurora borealis over the Lofoten Islands in Norway by Nicolai Brügger, an atmospheric image of the photographer Ben Bush with his dog Floyd surrounded by the galactic core of the Milky Way, and a sequence of images of Mars that follo ws the progress of the great global dust storm by Andy CaselyExhibition of winners and shortlisted images opens at the National Maritime Museum on 13 September 2019 and acatalogue is available hereContinue reading...

Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 13, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Matt Fidler Tags: Astronomy Space Photography Source Type: news