{"id":30886,"date":"2017-05-17T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=30886"},"modified":"2017-05-16T11:48:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T16:48:16","slug":"astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-prize-winning-images-by-top-astrophotographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-prize-winning-images-by-top-astrophotographers\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy Photographer of the Year: Prize-Winning Images by Top Astrophotographers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Take a deep breath –\u00a0then, open this book.\u00a0Astronomy<\/span> Photographer<\/span> of the Year : Prize-winning Images by Top Astrophotographers<\/span> <\/a><\/strong><\/em>will transport you.<\/p>\n

Every year since 2009, the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, England hosts an Astronomy Photographer of the Year Competition.\u00a0Entries are collected in the spring. Winning exhibitions are displayed at the Royal Observatory September to June.\u00a0This book is a compilation of the best from the first six years of that contest.<\/p>\n

It is hard to believe these images were not\u00a0captured by the Hubble telescope, but rather by amateur astrophotographers on earth. Flip\u00a0through the pages of this heavy book and find eyeball-shaped nebula staring back at\u00a0you from a background of innumerable stars. Feel a shiver as you take in an image of a snowy night with Aurora Borealis coloring the sky in purple and green. Ponder how tiny you are compared to\u00a0all the\u00a0galaxies out there. It always\u00a0fills me with wonder to see images of galaxies and nebulae that\u00a0resemble eyes or other body parts. I think the one displayed on the cover of this book looks rather like a heart, don’t you?<\/p>\n

Some photos, such as the ones tracing the sun’s position in the sky over nearly a year made me wonder aloud, “How did they capture that?!?”\u00a0The collection is even\u00a0more remarkable when you consider that\u00a0some\u00a0contest entries were submitted by people who have only been practicing astronomy photography\u00a0less than a year. There are special categories for\u00a0those who\u00a0have not entered the competition before, as well as\u00a0a youth category for\u00a0ages 15 and younger. You can\u00a0learn\u00a0more about the contest\u00a0at the Royal Museums website<\/a>. <\/a><\/p>\n

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Take a deep breath –\u00a0then, open this book.\u00a0Astronomy Photographer of the Year : Prize-winning Images by Top Astrophotographers will transport you. Every year since 2009, the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, England hosts an Astronomy Photographer of the Year Competition.\u00a0Entries are collected in the spring. Winning exhibitions are displayed[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,4167,1,8,6],"tags":[4192,4193,300],"class_list":["post-30886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photo-essay","category-reference","category-staff-picks","category-websites","tag-astronomy","tag-astrophotographers","tag-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-82a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30886"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30935,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30886\/revisions\/30935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}