Over 100 photographs from this year’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year, edition 14, are on show in a special exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, displayed at their best on brilliant lightbox displays, with Duratran prints proudly produced by Genesis Imaging.
The Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition is run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, supported by Liberty Specialty Markets and in association with BBC Sky at Night Magazine. In 2022, the competition received over three thousand entries from sixty-seven countries worldwide, the winners are listed below.
The Winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year Competition 2022
The overall winner receives £10,000. The winners of all the other categories and the Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year will receive £1,500. There are also prizes for runners-up (£500) and highly commended (£250) entries. The Special Prize winners will receive £750. All the winning entrants will receive a one-year subscription to BBC Sky at Night Magazine.
Planets, Comets & Asteroids
- Gherard Rhemann (Austria) with Disconnection Event (Winner and Overall Winner)
- Damian Peach (UK) with The Jovian Family (Runner Up)
- Lionel Majzik (Hungary) with Cosmic Rose (Highly Commended)
Skyscapes
- Zihui Hu (China) with Stabbing Into the Stars (Winner)
- Abhijit Patil (USA) with Badwater Milky Way (Runner Up)
- Filip Hrebenda (Slovakia) with The Night Highway (Highly Commended)
People & Space
- Andrew McCarthy (USA) with The International Space Station Transiting Tranquility Base (Winner)
- Mikhail Minkov (Bulgaria) with Back to the Spaceship (Runner Up)
- Hannah Rochford (UK) with Equinox Moon and Glastonbury Tor
Aurorae
- Filip Hrebenda (Slovakia) with In the Embrace of a Green Lady (Winner)
- Fred Bailey (Canada) with Misty Green River (Runner Up)
- Akexander Stepanenko (Russia) with Winged Aurora (Highly Commended)
Galaxies
- Utkarsh Mishra (India), Michael Petrasko (USA) and Muir Evenden (USA) with Majestic Sombrero Galaxy (Winner)
- Mark Hanson (USA) and Mike Selby (Thailand) with Arp 271 “Cosmic Collision” (Runner Up)
- Mathew Ludgate (New Zealand) with SMC and the Magellanic Bridge (Highly Commended)
Our Moon
- Martin Lewis (UK) with Shadow Profile of Plato’s East Rim (Winner)
- Andrea Vanoni (Italy) with Moon: Big Mosaic (Runner Up)
- Noah Kujawski (USA) with An Eclipse From a Thousand Sunsets (Highly Commended)
Our Sun
- Soumyadeep Mukherjee (India) with A Year in the Sun (Winner)
- Stuart Green (UK) with Solar Inferno (Runner Up)
- Miguel Claro (Portugal) with A Giant in the Sun’s Limb (Highly Commended)
Stars & Nebulae
- Weitang Liang (China) with The Eye of God (Winner)
- Martin Cohen (UK) with What a Flaming Star! (Runner Up)
- Péter Feltóti (Hungary) with The Centre of the Heart Nebula (Highly Commended)
Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year
- Yang Hanwen and Zhou Zezhen (China) with Andromeda Galaxy, The Neighbour (Winner)
- Peter Szabo (Hungary) with Mineral Moon Mosaic (Highly Commended)
- Saahil Sinha (USA) with A Rainbow Rose (Highly Commended)
- Julian Shapiro (USA) with The Crab Nebula in Hydrogen and Oxygen
The Annie Maunder Prize for Digital Innovation
- Pauline Woolley (UK) with Solar Tree (Winner)
The Sir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomer
- Lun Deng (China) with The Milky Way Bridge Across Big Snowy Mountains (Winner)
The Astronomy Photographer of the Year 14 Exhibition
17 September 2022 – 13 August 2023
10am-5pm daily
National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich,
London
SE10 9NF
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