This has been another record year both in the number and the standard of entries to our Astrophotography Competition. But without further ado, the winner of the Atik Cameras 2016 Astrophotography Competition and winner of a brand new Atik 16200 camera is:
Simon Großlercher for his amazing image of NGC 772
- NGC 772 by Simon Großlercher (2016-2463) taken with an Atik 460EX
You can read more about Simon’s galactic champion over on our results page.
Runners Up
John Erik Minerva – NGC 6992, The Eastern Veil in Bicolour
- NGC 6992 by John Erik Minerva (2016-2436)
Patrik Tarczi – The Foal Nebula
- The Foal Nebula by Patrik Tarczi (2016-2444)
You can read more about all the winning entries and see our list of Highly Commended submissions here.
We’d like to thank everybody that entered, voted or followed the competition and we’re sure it won’t be long until we do it all again.