The Royal Observatory’s Astrophotography Competition, The World’s Largest Astronomical Photography Competition, Has Just Announced Its Shortlist Of This Year’s Entries.

The Royal Observatory is part of the Royal Museums of Greenwich and is dedicated to enriching people’s understanding of space exploration. The annual Royal Observatory Astrophotographer of the Year photography competition and subsequent exhibition held at the National Maritime Museum Greenwich invites astrophotographers to submit their best work and compete for significant cash prizes.

This year’s competition, which has been held in association with BBC Sky at Night magazine, announced its shortlist some time ago. This year, the contest received more than 4,500 entries from amateur and professional photographers from 75 countries worldwide.

This competition has nine categories: “skyscapes,” “aurora borealis,” “people and space,” “our sun,” “our moon,” “planets and comets and asteroids,” “stars and nebulae,” “galaxies,” and “Young astronomy photographer of the year.” In addition, two special awards have been considered for it.

The overall winner will receive £10,000 and be awarded the title of ‘Astrophotographer of the Year 13’. Winners in other categories will also receive £1,500 each. In the following, you can see some of the selected works of this competition.

• Photo Title: Harmony
• Photographer’s name: Stephen Lieberman
• Country of the photographer: Germany

• Photo Title: Waterfall
• Photographer’s name: Anna Dobrovelskaya-Mints
• Photographer’s country: Israel

• Photo Caption: The magnetic field of our active Sun
• Photographer’s name: Andrew McCarthy
• Photographer’s country: United States of America

• Photo Caption: Star Watcher
• Illustrator Name: Ying Suti
• Photographer’s country: China

• Photo Title: Star trails over the Lujiazui city skyline
• Photographer’s name: Denning Kai
• Photographer’s country: China

• Photo Title: Falling Star
• Illustrator Name: Wing Xing
• Photographer’s country: China

• Photo Title: Full moon path over the sleeping city
• Photographer’s name: Rumi LeBlan Message
• Country of the photographer: France

• Photo Title: Dogi Otok – Variant A
• Photographer’s name: Ivan Vochtik
• Land of the photographer: Croatia

• Photo Title: Sunspot staring into space
• Photographer’s name: Shiv Fon Tong
• Photographer’s country: United States of America

• Photo title: Sisters of Pleiades
• Photographer’s name: Jashanpreet Singh Dhingra (14 years old)
• Photographer’s country: India

• Image caption: The dark molecular cloud in the southern corona
• Photographer’s name: Steven Moore
• Photographer’s country: Australia

• Photo Title: Full moon in Moscow
• Photographer’s name: Anna Kaunis
• Land of the photographer: Russia

More information about the competition, including a complete list of images and galleries of past shortlists, can be found on the Royal Museums Greenwich website.

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