From night-sky landscapes to deep-sky objects, the entrants to the second annual contest submitted a wide range of beautiful pictures.
The Milky Way is mirrored within the lake Stat Tso, situated at within the mountain move of Pensi La Move within the Zanskar Valley within the Ladakh area. This picture received the nightscape class of the 2023 Indian Astrophotographer of the Yr contest. Credit score: Soumya Banerjee
The 2023 version of the Indian Astrophotographer of the Yr contest has concluded — and the winners and shortlisted pictures are stunners.
The competitors is organized by Astronomads Bangla, a bunch of 4 astroimagers who met through the COVID-19 pandemic and have since hosted quite a few workshops at dark-sky websites throughout India. This yr’s version — the competition’s second — was judged by a panel of distinguished astrophotographers: Ajay Talwar, Dorje Angchuk, and Vikas Chander. A total of 751 pictures had been submitted by 142 individuals.
The profitable and shortlisted pictures had been introduced in a livestream on Dec. 24, and also will be introduced in an exhibition on the M. P. Birla Planetarium in Kolkata from Dec. 31, 203 by means of Jan. 7, 2024.
For extra on the Astronomads Bangla group and the astroimaging group in India, try the article authored by group co-founder Soumyadeep Mukherjee in our December concern.
Scroll all the way down to see all the profitable and shortlisted pictures in every class.
Deep sky
Winner — Devesh Pande — The Garlic Pop Nebula
Runner-up — Pravas Deria — The Eagle Nebula
Extremely Recommended — Anil Kumar MN — The Pleiades
Shortlisted — Abhinav Maroti Vitekar — The Veil Nebula
Shortlisted — Aditya Kinjawadekar — Horse with a Fly
Shortlisted — Harshwardhan Pathak — NGC 7000
Shortlisted — Prabhakaran — Leo Triplet
Shortlisted — Shikhar Gupta — M81 and M82 wide-field with surrounding IFN
Nightscape
Winner — Soumya Banerjee — Stat Tso
Runner-up — Thiruchitrambalam M — Starry Hanle Evening
Extremely Recommended — Umesh Gogna — Celestial Symphony
Shortlisted — Himanshu Kasale — Milky Way arc rising behind Sahyadri mountain vary
Shortlisted — Kartik Kota — Milky Way and Lightning Sprites
Shortlisted — Naveen Chellaiah — Cosmic Butterfly
Shortlisted — Ruben — Chasing Stars
Shortlisted — Sneha Chatterjee — Milky Way in Merak
Photo voltaic system
Winner — Sona Shahani Shukla — Eclipse on Jupiter
Runner-up — Nihal S Amin — Coronal streamers
Extremely Recommended — Aditya Kinjawadekar — Dusty Mars
Shortlisted — Kunal Kishor Vaze — Mineral Moon
Shortlisted — Prabhakaran — Crater Plato and its environment
Shortlisted — Prakash Subbanna — Solar in Hydrogen-alpha
Shortlisted — Sandeep Mathur — The Omen
Shortlsited — Shivam Bansal — Moon Crossing
Finest ladies astrophotographer
Winner — Vidya Vasudevan — Milky Way and the Mighty Mountain
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Shortlisted — Sona Shahani Shukla — The Pelican Nebula
Shortlisted — Vidya Vasudevan — Milky Way and Venus at Golden Hour
Finest cellular astrophotographer
Winner — Aditya Kinjawadekar — Milky Way and the mighty Rajgad fort
Shortlisted — Karthik P — Selfie with Milky Way
Shortlisted — Subham Rath — Underneath the Celestial Cover Forest Roads by Starlight
