The winners of Royal Observatory Greenwich’s annual competition have been announced. The images will be on display in the accompanying exhibition, opening at the National Maritime Museum in London on Friday
Overall winner: Distorted Shadows of the Moon’s Surface Created by an Annular Eclipse, by Ryan Imperio
This is a sequence of continuously captured images showing the progression of the Baily’s beads effect at third contact during the 2023 annular eclipse. Baily’s beads are formed when sunlight shines through the valleys and craters of the moon’s surface, breaking the eclipse’s well-known ring pattern, and are only visible when the moon either enters or exits an eclipse.
This image shows a unique false-colour view of Jupiter in the CH4 methane band, with the Great Red Spot setting on the western limb. Through the use of visible and methane-band filters, the intricate upper cloud formations and storms are revealed.
This photograph is the result of 3,559 frames, 260 hours of exposure time and telescopes on three continents. The team worked to explore and photograph a previously unknown gigantic supernova remnant in the centre of the constellation CassiopeiaThis image shows the dust and gas formations around the star Antares. The photographer travelled to Namibia as part of an astrophotography expedition to capture this image.
SH2-308, or the Dolphin Head nebula, is at a low angle and can only be shot for five hours a day. This image comprises a total of 10 days of shooting and post-processing with PixInsight. The main body of the nebula and the background stellar wind are both prominentThis image features a deep integration on the California nebula, NGC 1499, an emission nebula in the constellation of Perseus.
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