The MAS Astro Photo Competition is run every year. The winner's (and runner up's) images will be posed on this page, along with any additional information provided by the member as part of their entry.
Entries for the 2025 Competition are now open.
NOTE. The Competition is open to members only, for images taken on their own equipment during the current competition year. All photos must feature an extra-terrestrial subject :-) Further details available on joining (and in the Members (login) section).
Maidenhead Astronomical Society photo competition 2025
Categories :- 1. Moon 2. Sun 3. Planets / Solar System (including Comets, Asteroids, Meteors etc) 4. Deep Sky 5. 'Art image' (any object with sky or astral object in view. This must be a single frame image and not a composite or edited image)
The winner in each category will be short-listed for the Susan Flinders Memorial Award as 'Overall Winner' to be voted on by the members present at the Quiz Night meeting in December 2024 and awarded during that meeting.
Judging The Photographic Competition judged by an independent expert chosen by the Committee (eg Associate of the Royal Photographic Society etc).
Rules 1) The image must have been taken by a full member of MAS 2) Each image should be given a description (name, date, where it was taken and what equipment was used e.g. digital camera, scope, mobile phone etc.) in the body of the email (see 4) 3) Images must have been taken between November 2023 and November 2024 4) The image should be submitted as a jpeg or PNG no larger than 5 MB to photo2024@maidenhead-astro.net. Entries will not be accepted in any other medium or to any other email address. At a minimum please name the file as category, image title and your name (for example '1-Lunar-eclipse-Andy-N-Other.jpg') NOTE - the spam filters only accept emails from a members registered eMail address. To update your eMail address, Contact the Chair or WebAdmin 5) A maximum of 3 images per category per member 6) The images remain the property/copyright of the entrant 7) The winning images will be posted to the MAS website (at reduced resolution). The WebAdmin reserves the right to enhance contrast, brightness and re-crop to enhance appearance and fit to the format of the web page. The original aspect ratio (portrait, square, landscape) will be preserved (if possible). A watermark will (only) be added on request.
All rights reserved, all photos Copyright individual members of MAS
(-) 4 Apr 2025 2024 Photo Competition Winners - (all categories)
Winner, Sun Category - AdrianD, SeeStar s50 with supplied filter.
(right) Runner Up, Sun Category - JamesQ, telescope with white light Solar Filter.
Winner, Solar System Category - Peter P, Saturn, 925" SCT on a GEM45 mount with a Barlow lens.
(right) Runner Up, Solar System - JamesQ, "Mercury in the spotlight" Olympus OM10 with 300mm lens, 2s exposure.
Winner, Moon Category - Colin A, 10" Skywatcher, 290c Altair 5000 frames (around 50% stacked).
(right) Runner Up, Moon Category - Colin A - same set up but now with 2.5x Barlow.
Winner, Deep Sky - Peter H, M51 10" F4 Newtonian, UVIRx Triband 11400s, 4 to 5 hours of 5 minute exposures stacked.
(right) Runner Up, Deep Sky - Adrian D, M42, Seestar s50, 3 Hrs of 10s exp. (reprocessed using PixInsight).
Winner, Art Category - David M, Aurora from Winter Hill, 304s exp. with DSLR voted overall Winner of 2024 and the Susan Flinders Trophy
(right) Runner Up, Art Category - Tony T, Supermoon, SonyX DSLR with 600mm telephoto.Note that the 2025 Competition is open, images must be taken after Saturday 8th March 2025 (end date tba, likely end Nov. 2025
This note last modified: 8th Apr 2025 13:10.