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From a 'Ring of Fire' solar eclipse to
dancing Northern Lights: Winners
of the Astronomy Photographer of
the Year 2021 are revealed

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Posted By: Imright, 9/19/2021 11:47:07 AM

The winning images from the Royal Museums Greenwich Astronomy Photographer of the Year have been revealed. Shuchang Dong was crowned the overall winner of Astronomy Photographer of the Year for his mesmerising photograph The Golden Ring.The image shows an annular solar eclipse taken in the Ali region of Tibet on 21 June 2020.'This place has year-round sunny weather, but in front of the annular eclipse, I saw dark clouds all over the sky,' recalled photographer Shuchang Dong.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: downnout 9/19/2021 12:18:32 PM (No. 919723)
Beautiful!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 9/19/2021 12:30:18 PM (No. 919750)
Truly stunning photographs.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 9/19/2021 12:56:42 PM (No. 919782)
Wonderful photos. And, having taken a few pretty decent photos of comets, I can tell you that these photographers did a LOT of work to capture those images. Well done!, for the photographers. A few weeks ago, at a high altitude location in the Colorado mountains, I was able to show a nephew both Jupiter and three of it's moons, and Saturn with rings through a small, but high quality telescope. He was thrilled. Now I need to get out my big 8" scope and show him some really nice views. But of course, small amateur scopes, even 8" quality ones, cannot compare to the views we are so used to now from Hubble and huge observatory scopes. But my wife and I, and a friend did see the four scars on the face of Jupiter through a $700 8" reflector scope back when the Shoemaker-Levy comet crashed into the gas giant back in '94. Seeing that through a scope out on the driveway was really a thrill. Even backyard astronomy, if you live away from big cities with their terrible light pollution, while nothing like the amazing views from Hubble, can be a lot of fun.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Anti_democRAT 9/19/2021 1:39:40 PM (No. 919831)
God is great, god is big. Prideful man thinks he is big but in the realm of things very small. Blessed be earth with the infinite supply of hydrocarbons gifted by god for our lifes blood. F the satan that tries to take our god given gifts.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: bad-hair 9/19/2021 6:41:06 PM (No. 920063)
Love to see this kind of creativity especially from youngsters. Gives me faith to explore my own creativity..
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Reply 6 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 9/19/2021 8:12:04 PM (No. 920132)
There is so much going on out there about which we have no clue.
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