CATEGORY:Best Wide-field or Nightscape Image
Prize:Sky-Watcher Quattro 200P f/
Imaging Newtonian telescope
with coma corrector
(mount not included)ca.skywatcher.com14 SKYNEWS•SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019
BEST WIDE-FIELD
OR NIGHTSCAPE IMAGE
This is an improbable picture. Given the brevity of summer nights and the ongoing
dearth of solar activity, catching any aurora is rather remarkable. And yet John
Andersen managed to capture a lovely auroral scene in the early-morning hours
of June 18, 2018, from a location east of Crossfield, Alberta, a town at 51 degrees
north latitude. Andersen used a Canon EOS 6D DSLR camera fitted with a Tamron
15-30mm f/2.8 zoom lens set to 15mm for an 8-second exposure at ISO 3200.Honourable
Mention
No constellation evokes
winter as powerfully as
Orion the hunter—beauti-
fully presented near the
horizon in this striking
nightscape by Barry
Burgess. He recorded the
25-second exposure at
ISO 3200 on the morning
of September 21, 2018,
from Indian Fields, Nova
Scotia, with a Canon EOS
6D DSLR camera and a
Sigma Art 14mm f/1.
lens used at f/2.5.