Australia's most prestigious Astrophotography contest results are now
available here.
https://davidmalinawards.com/2023-winning-images
This year's standard was simply stratospheric.
Congratulations to the winners.
P.S. Next year's open theme will be
"Working with light in the night"
The challenge of the open category in 2024 is to showcase the night sky (or an astronomical object) against incidental artificial sources of light.
For example, the Milky Way above a sea of urban lighting. Images taken with the same camera and lens/telescope combination can be digitally
combined provided they are taken at a similar time and at the same location. The scene's natural illumination should be preserved.
The goal is to show the night sky even if affected by lights. Obvious composites of star-fields pasted upon urban environments will be disqualified.
P.P.S. Slight edit made, this is now the official wording of the open category