Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019 – winning images
László Francsics has been named the overall winner in the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019 competition, for his composition showing the 35 phases of January’s total lunar eclipse. Other winners include a panorama of the aurora borealis over the Lofoten Islands in Norway by Nicolai Brügger, an atmospheric image of the photographer Ben Bush with his dog Floyd surrounded by the galactic core of the Milky Way, and a sequence of images of Mars that follows the progress of the great global dust storm by Andy Casely
Exhibition of winners and shortlisted images opens at the National Maritime Museum on 13 September 2019 and a catalogue is available here
Overall Winner: Into the Shadow by László Francsics Photograph: László Francsics/Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019
Statue of Liberty Nebula, by Ignacio Diaz Bobillo
Winner: Stars and Nebulae
M31 Andromeda Galaxy,by Tom Mogford
Highly commended: Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year
The Jewels of Orion, by Ross Clark
Winner: Best Newcomer
The Watcher, by Nicolai Brügger
Winner: Aurorae
Stellar Flower,by Davy van der Hoeven
Winner: Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year
Ben, Floyd & the Core, by Ben Bush
Winner: People and Space
A Little Fireworks, by Alan Friedman
Winner: Our Sun
Shells of Elliptical Galaxy NGC 3923 in Hydra, by Rolf Wahl Olsen
Winner: Galaxies
Across the Sky of History, by Wang Zheng
Winner: Skyscapes
Sky and Ground, Stars and Sand, by Shuchang Dong
Winner: Best Newcomer
Death of Opportunity, by Andy Casely
Winner: Planets, Comets & Asteroids
Above the Tower, by Sam King
Highly Commended: People and Space
Crescent Moon During the Day, by Rafael Ruiz
Runner Up: Our Moon
Aurora Australis from Beerbarrel Beach, by James Stone
Runner Up: Aurorae
Into the Shadow, by László Francsics
Winner: Our Moon and Winner: OverallThe photograph depicts a creative and artistic composition of the 35 phases of the total lunar eclipse that occurred on 21 January 2019. Competition judge Ed Robinson said: ‘For a single multiple-exposure image to capture this event with such positional precision, creative innovation and beauty is nothing short of masterful’
