Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011 - results (+Vodcast)

[strongmanmike]

Well the results are in and four Aussies featured in the finals

Well done:

Paul Haese
Steve Crouch
Peter Ward
Me :D

(did I miss any of us?)

Marco Lorenzi won two categories!! and he has a remote setup in Coona so he is almost an Aussie :)

Congrates to everyone though, Damian Peach's overall winning Jupiter image is incredible :eyepop:

Full results and all the awarded images can be found HERE (http://www.nmm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year/winners-2011/)

Here's a nice narrated slide show about this years competition

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14792580)

Episode 31 Sky at Night magazine Vodcast (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95hWrFWe7ys&feature=youtu.be&hd=1)

[Alchemy]

Nicely done big boy...

Congrats to all the other winners

Well done those that put in a big effort but didn't get that big recognition, but still got into the final selection process.

Must go have a look at all the pics..... See y'all later

[jjjnettie]

Congratulations you guys. Well done. :D
You all do such beautiful work, it's well deserved. :)

Young Jathin Premjith won Junior Astronomy Photographer of the Year. He's awesome.
We need him on IIS to inspire the youngin's and us oldies. :D

[EddieT]

Just woke up to the news ! Really well done guys! Congratulations!

[desler]

Well done to all. Some really amazing talent on display!

Darren

[spacezebra]

Congrats to all!

The Jupiter is absolutely amazing!!!!

Cheers Petra d.

[CraigS]

Warm "congratulations" to all the finalists !
Well done !
:)
Cheers

[Paul Haese]

Thanks guys, Well I got the email from Mike this morning and took a look and am shocked to see that I am the highest placed Australian. Although it is good to see so many Aussies in the field and glad to see I picked the overall winning entry. Mike you owe some beers.:)

Interestingly my run of coming second has not been changed.:P

Congrats to Mike, Steve and Peter on the wins. All beautiful images.

[mishku]

Well done, guys.. very inspiring for a newbie!

[Stevec35]

Thanks to everyone for the kind words and congratulations to the other winners. I must admit I never expected this image to go anywhere. I didn't even enter it in the Malin awards.

Cheers

Steve

[SkyViking]

Congratulations to all, well done. And that Jupiter image is just fantastic!

[Peter Ward]

Nice to see a number of Aussies in the final mix.

Well done guys, particularly Steve Crouch who will enter more of his efforts in the Malins next year :poke:eh?? :)

Sadly the exhibtion wasn't ready when I was up in London last week, but I promise to take some piccys of all the Oz entrants work if I can get back there before it closes.

Damian Peach's winning Jupiter image is well deserved... Details and srtucture on Jupiter *and* its moons of the like I've never seen before, other than from Hubble.

[TrevorW]

Well done guys

[Stevec35]

Just to clarify, I did enter a montage of planetaries of which Shapley 1 was one in the Malins but it didn't get beyond first base. Clearly I might have been better off just entering the single Shapley 1 image.

[bird]

Congrats to Paul, Mike, Peter and Steve... well done to all of you!

regards, Bird

[h0ughy]

well done guys

[iceman]

Congrats to all the winners and runners up.

Excellent efforts and excellent photographs.

Maybe I can take something to enter next year.. Here's hoping :)

[Peter Ward]

Fair 'nuff, in any event I've always rated your low-fanfare images as amongst the best in Oz

Now, can anyone do something about this lousy east coast weather??? :rain:

[Ric]

Congratulations all

There was some amazing images in that collection.

[Stevec35]

Thanks Peter. I do very much appreciate the compliment.

[mill]

Congrats to all the winners and runner ups :thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Thanks for the positive comments and well wishes guys, they are nice to read.

Like any competition of this type, getting an award does not the imager make. I had several favorites of my own (by other imagers) in the pool and a couple I thought for sure would catch the judges eye.

However, knowing that a group of people, all of whom are in the astronomy research, outreach and journalism games, on the other side of the globe, in the mother of modern observatories, collectively picked out my image from a pool of 700 bloody amazing images from around the World....is the quirky (lucky) and rather cool bit but it certainly doesn't make me a better imager than anyone else, it is all fun :thumbsup:

What a collection though, anyone who hasn't had a look at the full entry pool (http://www.flickr.com/search/groups/?w=973956%40N23&m=pool&q=competition%3Aastrophoto%3D2011) should, just to see some beautiful work, some are very emotive and moving.

Cheers heaps again

Mike

[Alchemy]

Perhaps not..... But must sure feel good :party2::computer::cheers:

[strongmanmike]

...I've felt worse :P

[Blue Skies]

Congratulations everyone!

I'm just browsing through the full lot now and there's some stunning ones that didn't get a mention in the finals. Creative and inspirational! Keep them coming. :thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Here's a nice slide show about this years competition narrated by the Royal Observatory astronomers:

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14792580)

[Hagar]

Congratulations everyone. What a wonderful result from the Australian entrants.

Great stuff.

[Martin Pugh]

Yes, let me add my congrats to Peter, Mike, Paul and Steve.

well done Australia

Martin

[marc4darkskies]

Congrats guys!! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:.

It's great to see Aussie imagers featuring so well in such a world class comp! :party2:

Cheers, Marcus

[Quark]

It's great to see Australian amateurs recognized like this on the world stage and I add my congratulations to Paul, Mike, Peter and Steve.

Regards
Trevor

[netwolf]

Congrats to all, it is great to see so many Aussies and IIS memebers in there.

[danielsun]

Congratulations to all, Awesome and inspiring images!!:thumbsup:

Cheers Daniel.

[strongmanmike]

Thanks for the well wishes boys :thumbsup:

Actually if you look at the list of finalists since it started in 09 you can see Aussies feature quite well each year really :thumbsup: seems our connections with the original motherland is healthy.. in the imaging world at least :)

Mike

[Stevec35]

Thanks again for all the good wishes everyone

Cheers

Steve

[strongmanmike]

Here's a Sky at Night Magazine Vodcast episode of the awards night.

Nice features and interviews with some of the awarded imagers and judges

The amazing interactive exhibition now on display at the Royal Observatory in London is shown at the end

Extended Vodcast episode 31 - Sky at Night Magazine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95hWrFWe7ys&feature=youtu.be&hd=1) (11min)

Mike

[TinyBlueDot]

Amazing images.........

Aussies punching above their weight yet again!!! Great results, guys.

My pick for sheer :eyepop: value is Marco Lorenzi's Vela Supernova remnant pic.

Thanks again
John

[Jen]

:eyepop: wow im going through all these pics now :eyepop: im so glad im not on the judging panel what a hard job that would be they are fantastic :D
congrats guys :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[marco]

Hi Mike, noticed this thread only now. Thanks for the kind words! My compliments too to you and Peter, Paul and Steve for the great pictures that got through the final. As you said it is great to have 4 aussies (and an adopted half :P) that were selected, that means that not only this is a land of dark skies but also a land of talented people :thumbsup:

Marco

[strongmanmike]

While we would like to take some of the kudos because you do some from Australian skies :D...your work is World class Marco so it was no surprise that it was so highly regarded in the judging.

Well done and we all look forward to your next masterpiece :thumbsup:

Mike