aapod2 2021 image of the year pole winner!
All the votes have been counted and we have a winner!
congratulations Mehmet Ergün for your amazing transit image, titled “iss Transit” originally submitted on April 11th 2021.
This amazing capture by Mehmet Ergün shows great timing, focus and planning… all the necessary ingredients to make for a winning astrophotography image. Mehmet Ergün is a fantastic photographer out of Germany and encourage to to check his Facebook and website pages.
We congratulate all our finalists and hope they continue to submit great astrophotography in 2022!
We are excited to see what is next!
This years prizes from our great sponsors:
Sidereal Trading Company has donated a Skywatcher Star Adventurer. Owned and operated by Astro-photographers, the staff at Sidereal Trading understands the equipment and has the knowledge to give the best informed customer service around.
Rogelio Bernal Andreo has donated a digital copy of his new book, “Mastering PixInsight". Mastering Pixinsight does much more than covering PixInsight from A to Z. In addition to including the most complete PixInsight Reference Guide on the planet to date, the book takes an intimate look at RBA's huge private repository of countless personal processing tips, "tricks", methods and know-how accrued over more than ten years.
AAPOD2.com will be donating a meteorite from AEROLITE METEORITES INC, and an Eagle DSLR wifi computer. We also have a nice 2021 Image of the Year Plaque.
Optolong will be donating an L- Extreme Filter. Unlike the Optolong L-eNhance filter which is a tri-band (transmits Hb, Ha, and OIII), the L-eXtreme filter is dual band that passes Ha and OIII emission lines.
NPAE Will be donating of one their Theia Astro Imaging Filter Changer Kits. Load your imaging filters in advance into our quick change filter sleds and you can rapidly swap from one to the other.
AstroDoc , by Ron Breacher, will be donating 1 hour of tutoring. Whether you need help with Pixinsight or Image processing Ron can navigate you though each step and provide a detailed explanation as to what each process does to enhance your image.
We have a beautiful Astro art work created by award wining contemporary artist Cathrin Manchin.
2021 was another tough year for everyone and we continue to believe that our showcasing the cosmos with your fantastic images help us all to see the bigger picture!
2022 has started out great with some amazing opportunities for AAPOD2, as always we are actively seeking sponsorships and donations for the 2022 prize package, so if you’re company that wants to be where your customer are, please give us the opportunity to promote your company and or products.
We will continue to grow our website and our social media traffic exponentially and look forward to exceeding our goals and your expectations in 2022.
Thanks again for your continued support!
