2025 Competition

MaccAstro Trophy Competitions 2025

There are eight trophies in the competition to encourage and reward more members.

The top three in each category were as follows:

Ivor Townshend Lunar Trophy

  • 1st Place: Mike Tyrrell with Buck Moon Rising
  • 2nd Place: Mike Tyrell with Mare Humorum & Gassendi
  • 3rd Place: Paul Smith with Lunistice from moonrise to moonset
Willcox Wide Sky Trophy
  • 1st Place: David Tolliday with Milky Way over a volcano
  • 2nd Place: Paul Smith with Flamborough Head Milky Way Arch (with aurora)
  • 3rd Place: David Tolliday with Milky Way over a cloud inversion

Paul Cannon Creative Trophy:

  • 1st Place: Lynne Hargreaves with ‘La Luna’
  • 2nd Place: Steve Warbis with Aurora reflections – pastels
  • 3rd Place: Steve Warbis with Solar eyepiece sketch – watercolour pens

Ian Morison Imaging Trophy (Deep Sky)

  • 1st Place: Paul Bouchier with M101 Pinweel Galaxy
  • 2nd Place: Paul Smith with IC1396 Elephant’s Trunk Nebula -SHO
  • 3rd Place: David Tolliday with Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex

Steve Warbis Solar System Trophy:

  • 1st Place: Mike Tyrrell with Solar Timelapse – 2 hours
  • 2nd Place: Paul Bouchier with Comet c2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
  • 3rd Place: John Tipping with Mars

Electronic Imaging Trophy:

  • 1st Place: Steve Warbis with Horsehead & Flame Nebulae
  • 2nd Place: Dave Berry with Elephants Trunk
  • 3rd Place: Paul Rugman with M51
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Remote Imaging Trophy:

  • Winner: Paul Smith with Crescent Nebula Processed from free data from the Moana Project

MaccAstro Chairman’s Trophy

  • Winner: Richard Jackson with M13

Well done to all the winners and also to everyone who entered.