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Photographs June 2015 4

Posted on Tuesday, 30 June, 2015Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Photography June 2015 4

The winners of the 6th International Earth and Sky Photo Contest on Dark Skies Importance have been announced. Organized by the World at Night, about 1000 entries were received, from 54 countries, and 839 of them were approved for the contest judging. The contest began in 2007, running annually. The first prize in Against the Lights category (and the overall contest winner) goes to Eric Nathan, for his image “Star Trails Above Table Mountain” taken in June 2014 from South Africa. “The image juxtaposes a moonlit Table Mountain and the star trails above it with the artificial lights of Cape Town, a stack of over nine hundred 30-second exposures,” explains Eric.

The Enchanted Forest Lyubov Trifonova

The Dome Sigurdur Brynjarsson

Star Trail Above Table Mountain Eric Nathan

Strolls In The Star River Caren Zhao

Star Trails Over Bromo Hui Chieh Teoh

Night Sky Over Pyatigorsk Evyeny Trisko

Moonlit Darklings Brad Goldpaint

Bloodmoon Rises Over Chongqing Zhou Yannan

Above The Light Pollution Evgeny Trisko

A Raising Of The Hackles Ben Coffman

Credit: World At Night

Arp 188 and the Tadpole's Tail.
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing: Faus Márquez (AAE). Distant galaxies form a dramatic backdrop for this disrupted spiral galaxy Arp 188, the Tadpole Galaxy. It is 420 million light-years distant toward the northern constellation of the Dragon (Draco), with its eye-catching tail of about 280 thousand light-years long, featuring massive, bright blue star clusters. It is theorised that a more compact intruder galaxy crossed in front of Arp 188 - from right to left in this view - and was slung around behind the Tadpole by their gravitational attraction, with tidal forces drawing out the spiral galaxy's stars, gas, and dust forming the spectacular tail. The intruder galaxy, 300,000 light-years behind the Tadpole, is seen through foreground spiral arms at the upper right.

Sunflowers (Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind, both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. On March 30, 1987, Japanese insurance magnate, Yasuo Goto, paid the equivalent of US $39,921,750 for van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London. The painting currently resides at Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

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