Incredible lunar eclipse photo wins Astronomy Photographer of the Year

Incredible lunar eclipse photo wins Astronomy Photographer of the Year
(Image credit: László Francsics)

Hungarian photographer László Francsics has won the Royal Observatory Greenwich's title of Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019 and the top prize of £10,000 with his jaw-dropping photo of the 35 phases of January's lunar eclipse. 

Fracsics's image astounded the judges, with judge Ed Robinson saying, "For a single multiple-exposure image to capture this even with such positional precision, creative innovation and beauty is nothing short of masterful. The colors of our atmosphere projected onto the Moon's disc during the eclipse are not only artistically pleasing, but also offer an understanding of such events that can reveal aspects of our own, thin, yet essential part of our atmosphere."

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