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Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023 winners

44 points by DemiGuru 3y ago

dylan604 3y ago
wow, that shot of the moon and Mars is amazingly cool. the timing and the clarity is phenomenal.
belinder 3y ago
The aurora runner up is fantastic: https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-photographer-year/galleries/aurorae-2023 https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-photographer-year/g... I've never been to Norway, not sure how common something like that is but it looks incredible
pphysch 3y ago
What level of validation goes into judging these images? I.e. ensuring they aren't physically-impossible, doctored, composite images. Guessing it's not too hard to validate?
- alar44 3y ago
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- gmiller123456 3y ago
  Virtually every astrophotography image is going to be a composite of some sort, the single shots are the exception rather than the rule.
jsmith99 3y ago
The hobby is surprisingly accessible. Most of these images were made with specialised equipment but the milky way landscapes could be created with practically any modern interchangeable lens camera (or some compacts) and a fast lens (and a very dark location!). https://www.lonelyspeck.com/ https://www.lonelyspeck.com/ has some good guides. There are some excellent open source programs to reduce noise in the images by stacking multiple exposures and some ingenious algorithms.
glitcher 3y ago
Sorry off topic, but I clicked the "Manage" option on the cookie consent banner to find out there are 86 "Necessary" cookies that are required on the site, then almost 200 more optional cookies I can choose to opt out of. Talk about bloat, seems completely ridiculous.
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- pvg 3y ago
  Talk about bloat The 84439th rule of messageboardclub is we do not talk about bloatclub. Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- ajdude 3y ago
  What's worse is how they do it on mobile. Usually there's just a button to only accept the necessary cookies, but I just kept scrolling and scrolling and they just kept giving me more and more options to toggle off eventually gave up, deciding that I cannot view the article.
tayo42 3y ago
For how many people and how easy it us to take a picture of Andromeda I'm surprised that was never seen before.
uslic001 3y ago
With some of the new hobby level products like Vespera it is so easy to capture similar images yourself.

44 points by DemiGuru 3y ago

wow, that shot of the moon and Mars is amazingly cool. the timing and the clarity is phenomenal.

The aurora runner up is fantastic: https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-photographer-year/galleries/aurorae-2023 https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-photographer-year/g... I've never been to Norway, not sure how common something like that is but it looks incredible

pphysch 3y ago

What level of validation goes into judging these images? I.e. ensuring they aren't physically-impossible, doctored, composite images. Guessing it's not too hard to validate?

alar44 3y ago
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gmiller123456 3y ago
Virtually every astrophotography image is going to be a composite of some sort, the single shots are the exception rather than the rule.

jsmith99 3y ago

The hobby is surprisingly accessible. Most of these images were made with specialised equipment but the milky way landscapes could be created with practically any modern interchangeable lens camera (or some compacts) and a fast lens (and a very dark location!). https://www.lonelyspeck.com/ https://www.lonelyspeck.com/ has some good guides. There are some excellent open source programs to reduce noise in the images by stacking multiple exposures and some ingenious algorithms.

glitcher 3y ago

Sorry off topic, but I clicked the "Manage" option on the cookie consent banner to find out there are 86 "Necessary" cookies that are required on the site, then almost 200 more optional cookies I can choose to opt out of. Talk about bloat, seems completely ridiculous.

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pvg 3y ago
Talk about bloat The 84439th rule of messageboardclub is we do not talk about bloatclub. Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
ajdude 3y ago
What's worse is how they do it on mobile. Usually there's just a button to only accept the necessary cookies, but I just kept scrolling and scrolling and they just kept giving me more and more options to toggle off eventually gave up, deciding that I cannot view the article.

tayo42 3y ago

For how many people and how easy it us to take a picture of Andromeda I'm surprised that was never seen before.

uslic001 3y ago

With some of the new hobby level products like Vespera it is so easy to capture similar images yourself.