Northern Hemisphere 2022 Winners

It’s been another epic nPAE Northern Hemisphere competition, with entries from across the top half of our planet!

Now in its 5th year it is rated as one of the top 10 astrophotography competitions that you can enter by Space.com!

With pleasure, we announce the winners from the final 16. All of which displayed that rare combination of talent, dedication and attention to detail required at this level of astrophotography. In that respect everyone is a winner.

In the public voting round Basudeb from India received over 5k votes to win an nPAE gift pack, and over 7k people took part in the voting.

We’d like to thank all the competitors for entering. They were all amazing images and we thoroughly enjoyed deciding who was going to get the prizes.

It wasn’t an easy choice, but are here are the judges’ final decisions….

In 3rd place, winning a £50 ($65) nPAE voucher, is Stargate by Marcin from the Unites States. Taken with a Nikon D8 and processed with Photoshop.

In 2nd place, and the winner of the nPAE Theia astro imaging filter changer, is A Jupiter Sized Prominence from Michael in Malaysia. Taken with a Lunt LS152T Ha Telescope, Tele Vue 3x Barlow and QHY5L-II-M Camera and processed and stacked with autoStakkkert!3, Wavelet adjustment with Registax 6, Enhancement and false color with Photoshop 2020.

And the 1st place winner collecting £200 ($262) and becoming the nPAE Northern Hemisphere Astrophotography Champion 2021! Is……………… Spaghetti Nebula from Yann in France! Taken with a Takahashi FSQ106 EDX4 with 645-QE super reducer and Asi 2600MM Pro camera with Barilla (Antilla) RGB + H and O 3nm filters on an Eq6r-pro mount using an Altaïr 60/225 guide + asi 290mm mini. Acquisition was with N.I.N.A + Phd2 and processing: with Siril + PixInsight + Photoshop.

Yann literally drove thousands of miles around France to acquire all the data for this image and it has certainly paid off! The detail is not fully resolvable on screen, but check out this close up and the sharpness and colours of those back ground stars!

Thank you again to all those who entered making this competition possible. We look forward to everyone entering again next year. Remember the Sun, Moon and planets are all objects in the sky! The nPAE astrophotography competition next moves to the Southern Hemisphere. The winner of which will be able to challenge Yann and Hugo, the reigning champion, for the title of nPAE World Champion Astrophotographer 2022 in a public vote.

The Southern Hemisphere stage runs from 1st June to 31st August.