Australia takes 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the 2022 nPAE Southern Hemisphere Astrophotography Competition.
3rd Place – winning a £50 nPAE Voucher is…
Ben: Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex.
This wide field 6 panel mosaic was taken with a ZWO 2600MC camera and SAMYANG 135MM lens on a Heq-5 mount with an ASIAIR PRO and ZWO Electronic Automatic Focuser and processed in Pixinsight.
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2nd Place – winning an nPAE Theia Astro Imaging Filter Changer is…
Niall: The glory of Saturn
Taken with a Celestron C14 Edge HD refector on a Paramount MX+ mount and ZWO ASI 174MM camera with Chroma RGB filters and a Tele Vue 3x Barlow, it was processed with “Lucky Imaging” : )
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1st Place – winning £200 cash is…!
Rodney: NGC2004 et al
Rodney’s magnificent NGC2004 and other nebulas in found in the constellation Dorado. Taken with a Takahashi TSA120 and QSI683 CCD camera. The calibration, integration and post processing was completed in Pixinsight v1.8.9
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The close up detail is really very special!
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Well done to Rodney, he now goes forward to challenge for the nPAE World Champion Astrophotographer 2022 title.
The nPAE 2022 World Champion Astrophotographer title will pitch last year’s winner: Hugo from Argentina with his Helix Nebula, against Yann from France with the Spaghetti Nebula who won the 2022 Northern Hemisphere round against Rodney’s NGC2004 in a public vote on the 21st to 30th October.
https://www.npae.net/2022-npae-south...raphy-winners/
