Antares Region (2024 Custom Print)

 Stars & Nebulae category 2024 - highly commended

Astronomy Photographer of the Year is an annual competition featuring the world’s greatest space photography. Photographers from across the globe compete to take home the prestigious title.

"The image shows the dust and gas formations around star Antares. As this part of the sky is barely visible from Hungary, I have travelled to Namibia as part of an astrophotography expedition team to capture this image. To achieve this huge field of view, I have used a telephoto lens instead of a long focal length telescope. Even at 135mm I needed to create a 5 panel mosaic (3 panels RGB and 2 panels of Ha) to be able to show this huge region in one picture. As the lens has some color fringing, I have used a monochromatic camera instead of a DSLR, where I can focus for R/G/B colors separately, minimizing the aberration, and to increase the resolution of the image." Bence Toth

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