Last month I attended the Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards, held at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, with fellow Solar Stormwatch forum moderator ElisabethB (Els) and fellow Moon Zoo forum moderator Geoff. The overall winner was an amazing photo of Jupiter, Io and Ganymede by Damian Peach showing detail on the two moons – well worth pouring over in high resolution. Some solar astrophotos made the final list this year. In particular Dani Caxete’s photo of the ISS crossing the Sun was one of our favourites as this required nerves of steel to click the shutter at the precise moment.
Here are the solar related photos that made it through to the finals.
“Earth and Space” category runners up:
| Divine Presence by Ole C. Salomonsen (Norway)  high resolution version |
Volcanic Aurora by Örvar Atli Þorgeirsson (Iceland)  high resolution version |
“Our Solar System” category runners up:
| May 7th Hydrogen-Alpha Sun by Peter Ward (Australia)  high resolution version |
ISS and Endeavour crossing the Sun by Dani Caxete (Spain)  high resolution version |
And here are some that didn’t make the final:
| Another ISS transit by Thierry Legault  |
Entitled “solar keyhole” by Steven Christenson  |
A different kind of transit by astronominsk  |
| A fabulous sunset by Stefano De Rosa  |
A sun halo by Niki Giada  |
More photos and information on the APOTY website and the Flickr APOTY pool.
The Solar Stormwatch Blog 
