A photo capturing the eclipse phases over a frozen landscape in Norway has won a Thai photographer an award in this year’s Earth & Sky Photo Contest organized by The World at Night astrophotography association.
The photo “Total Solar Eclipse from Svalbard,” by Thanakrit Sanitkunaporn, won the award in the photo sequence category in the annual photo contest. The sequence captured the eclipse phases every three minutes throughout its duration in Svalbard, Norway in March 2015.
The 39 overlapping shots were combined to make a total photograph of the solar eclipse.
Judge Jim Richardson notes: “I found this image riveting. Seeing the course of the sun and moon, low across the sky in Svalbard, dancing their way towards the moment of eclipse and then slipping away while people in the darkness below stood transfixed; it made a fascinating scene”
Thanakrit Sanitkunaporn. Photo: NARIT
The Earth & Sky Photo Contest is a collaboration with the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and Global Astronomy Month, a program of Astronomers Without Borders.
In Thailand, however, there’s also an annual astrography contest hosted by the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT). Photographs are accepted in June – July. For those who are interested, check out the NARIT’s website.
