Here is a video made by Sky at night magazine of the award ceremony in London. A short explanation of my nominated image by me is shown around 3:36.
Barnard 344 is a dark nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. It’s located close to the star Sadr in the Gamma Cygni Nebula (RA: 20h18m57.4s DEC: +40º 40′ 01″). Barnard 344 is located on the bottom of the image. This region is very rich of dark and emission nebulae. On the image also VanDenBergh 130, …
On September 19 the book of the Astronomy photographer of the year 2013 competition was published: In this book all nominated images of the competition are shown. Also one of my images was published in here: For the true colors of the image look here.
“The bright star cluster [known as an “open cluster”] is known as Melotte15 after its discover, Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880-1961). Melotte 15 is embedded within and illuminates the central portion of the much larger glowing nebula identified as IC 1805. The three bright stars in an arc at the center of this image are type …