The best astronomy images in 2018

Herbert Huffner Photography November 27, 2022

In The Following Article, We Take A Look At The 11 Winners Of The “Astrophotographer Of The Year 2018” Contest; Images Recorded From Different Areas Of The Space Around Us.

Every year the Royal Observatory Greenwich organizes a big competition called ” Astrophotographer of the Year “. According to its tradition, this observatory held this competition in 2018 and finally selected 11 winners.

The first prize was awarded to Brad Goldpint , an American photographer, for capturing the image of “Carrying the Spirit” (which you can see in the title image of this article); This attractive image was taken in the state of Utah, and on the left side we see the Andromeda Galaxy and on the right side we see the Milky Way Galaxy.

This photographer captured the mentioned image with a Nikon D810 camera with a 14mm f/4 lens and ISO 2500 and won a prize of $13,000.

In this year’s contest, a total of 4,200 photos from 91 countries participated; In the following, you can see the winning images of other categories of the contest, which include “our sun”, “galaxies”, “our moon” and… It should be mentioned that each of these pictures was awarded a prize of 1,950 dollars.

Click on each image to view it in full size.