Woohoo I slipped in with a "Highly Commended"
If I'd known I would have come down!
Congratulations all !
HM = Honorable Mention, HC=Highly Commended.
Overall Winner = Troy Casswell - "Stellar Riches" - (from Wide-Field)
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The Photo Editor's Choice overall winner = James Garlick - "Aurora Treescape" (from Nightscapes)
Junior
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Winner = Matthew Cherubino - "Stairway to Heaven"
HM = Scott Carnie-Bronca - "Tarantula Nebula"
HC = Scott Carnie-Bronca - "Around the Southern Cross"
HC = Erin Carnie-Bronca - "Emu in the Sky"
Photo Editor's Pick = Scott Carnie-Bronca - "Around the Southern Cross"
Deep Sky
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Winner = Andrew Campbell - "The Fighting Dragons of Ara"
HM = Andrew Campbell - "A Cosmic Bubble"
HM = Marcus Davies - "Oasis"
HM = Paul Haese - "The Halo"
HM = Steven Mohr - "The Mighty Cosmic Web"
HC = Steven Mohr - "The Southern Seagul Nebula in the LMC"
HC = David Fitz-Henry - "The Helix Nebula"
HC = Paul Haese - "Fox in the Mist, IC 2944 and district"
HC = Greg Bradley - "Southern Nebula, NGC 6188"
Photo Editor's Pick = Peter Ward - "Knight's Colours"
Wide-Field
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Winner = Troy Casswell - "Stellar Riches"
HM = Phil Hart - "Dusty Surrounds of the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae"
HM = Robert Kaufman - "Starlight – spectral changes of N Sgr 2015 No. 2 through maximum"
HM = Kevin Diletti - "Star Storm Around the Teapot"
HC = Greg Bradley - "The Milky Way"
HC = Greg Priestley - "Hunstman Dark Nebula"
HC = Steven Saffi - "Airglow over Kangaroo Island"
Photo Editor's Pick = Arwen Dyer - "Luna Eclipse"
Solar System
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Winner = Peter Ward - "Solar Crown"
HM = Steven Saffi - "Earth Umbra"
HM = Phil Hart - "Tainted Eclipse, 8 October 2014"
HM = Phil Hart - "Comet Lovejoy's Photogenic Tail, 29 December 2014"
HC = Paul Haese - "Comet Lovejoy"
HC = Ross Giakoumatos - "Comet C/2014 Q2 from ANSW Wiruna"
HC = Craig Semple - "Comet Lovejoy, 11 january 2015"
HC = Phil Hart - "Colourful Comet Lovejoy, 27 December 2014"
HC = Dylan O'Donnell - "Earthshine / Sunshine"
Photo Editor's Pick = Phil Hart - "Entering Earth's Shadow"
Nightscapes
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Winner = James Garlick - "Aurora Treescape"
HM = Judith Conning - "Bridge to Glory"
HM = James Garlick - "Milky Bioluminescence"
HM = Steven Saffi - "Milky Way over the Bungle Bungles"
HM = Stefan Buda - "Southbank Eclipse"
HC = Greg Gibbs - "Bad Moon on the Rise"
HC = Paul Litchen - "Blood Moon over Melbourne Docklands"
HC = Matt Palmer - "Aurora and Moon, Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland"
HC = Wes Schulstad - "Watching Stars at Dawn"
Photo Editor's Pick = James Garlick - "Aurora Treescape"
Theme - "The Southern Cross"
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Winner = Phil Hart - "South along Bucklands Lane"
HM = Troy Casswell - "Jewels of the Southern Cross"
HM = Peter Patonai - "Vivid Festival Southern Cross"
HM = Saeed Salimpour - "By the Lake"
HM = Mark Slater - "Southern Cross Burning"
HC = Peter Ward - "Crossing the Storm"
Photo Editor's Pick = Peter Patonai - "Vivid Festival Southern Cross"
Animated Sequences – Scientific
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Winner = Phil Hart - "Four Nights of Comet Lovejoy's Tail"
HM = Alex Cherney - "Dynamic Tail of Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy"
HM = Andrew Cool - "Airglow Waves at Solar Maximum"
Animated Sequences – Aesthetic
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Winner = Alex Cherney - "Turn"
HM = Greg Priestley - "Point Perpendicular"
HM = Greg Priestley - "Riverina Skies"
HM = Judith Conning - "Aurora Borealis"
HC = Colin Legg - "Crazy Airglow"
HC = Glenn Martin - "The Cottage Time-lapse"