Astronomy Photographer of the Year

Astronomy Photographer of the Year is an annual astronomy photography competition and exhibition that is organised by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (part of Royal Museums Greenwich).

[2] In 2018 the exhibition moved to the Photography Gallery at the National Maritime Museum, where the exhibition showed a 10-year retrospective of the competition's 31 winning images alongside 69 of the best winning images from the past nine years.

In the young competition, a winner, runner-up and three highly commended images are chosen.

The panels of judges have included:[6] The astrophotography website Skies & Scopes conducted a data analysis of equipment data made public from all 685 shortlisted images for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition from 2018 to 2022.

For telescopes, Celestron models are most successful, and for mounts, Sky-Watcher dominates.