NIAG - Great Lakes Region -
The Astronomical League 2005

Astrophotography Competition


* First Place MASTERS (Solar System Photo)
  (Mars)

* Third Place MASTERS (Solar System Photo)
   (Moon crater Plato & Alpine Valley)

* First Place MASTERS (Deep Sky Color Photo)
   (m31 - Andromeda Galaxy)

* Second Place MASTERS (Deep Sky Color Photo)
   (m42 - Orion Nebula)

* First Place MASTERS (Webcam/Digital image)
   (Comet Machholz)

* Second Place MASTERS (wide field Photo)
   (Mars Approaching Scorpius)

* Third Place MASTERS (wide field Photo)
   (Circumpolar Star Trails & Sporadic Bolide Meteor)

* First Place MASTERS (Digitally Processed Image)
   (Full Moon Over Sooke Harbour, Vancouver Island, British Columbia)

* Second Place MASTERS (Digitally Processed Image)
   (Quarter Moon Behind Icy Tree)

* First Place MASTERS - OVERALL WINNER MASTERS

   Nov. 21, 2001
* (Astronomes De Luxembourg) (website)
   (Luxembourg)(Front page) (Leonid "smoke" rings)

   Nov., 2001
* (Y K Chia) (website) (Singapore) (Front page)
   (Leonid "smoke" rings)

   Nov., 2001
* NASA (SpaceWeather.com) (website) (Front page) (Leonid "smoke" rings)

   Nov., 2001
* Muncie Astronomy Club (website)
   (Leonid "smoke" rings)

   Nov., 2001
* NAMN - North American Meteor Network (website) (Front page) (Leonid"smoke"rings)

   Feb. 6, 2002
* WISH TV (Indianapolis) Channel 8 News with Leslie Olsen (Front page on website) ...also...(Television interview) (Images - Space Shuttle Columbia's last    visible pass over Indiana)

   Mar. 11, 2002
* Muncie Indiana Star/Press (newspaper) (Front page) ("Muncie Man Keeps His Eye...And Camera - On The Sky")

   April 21, 2002
* SkyChasers.net (website) (Front page)
   (Meteor Over Mars)

   June 27, 2002
* ABAN (Christian website) (Muncie, Indiana)
   (Featuring multiple images)

   Oct. 29, 2002
* Space.com (Website / on-line newspaper) (Front page  article by staff writer Diana Jong) (Light Shows: The Science and Scenes of Near Space") (Featuring :    Leonid "smoke" rings)

   Nov. 24, 2002
* AstroGallery ("Leonidi Di Fumo") (Italy) (Front page) (Leonid "smoke" rings)

   Nov. 29, 2002
* SkyChasers.net (Website) (Front page) (Venus at sunset over Portage Lake, Michigan)

   Feb. 4, 2003
* www.nightskyevents (website) (Iowa) (Stan Richard  -  professional photographer) (Front page) (Space Shuttle Columbia's last visible pass over Indiana)

   Feb. 5, 2003
* SkyChasers.net (Website) (Front page) (Space Shuttle Columbia's last visible pass over Indiana)

   Feb. 12, 2003
* Muncie Community Schools (website) (Space Shuttle Columbia image displayed at Muncie Mall)

   Aug. 24, 2003    (Sunday)
* Muncie Indiana Star/Press (newspaper) (Front page) ("Mars Rising")

   Mar. 29, 2004
* NASA (SpaceWeather.com) (Front page) (Jupiter with moon and 2 shadows)

   June 8, 2004
* NewsLink Indiana (Front page of website) ...also... (television interview) ("Venus Parades Across Sun, Indiana Sky) (Muncie Indiana Astronomy Club Imaging Team) (Mike Hutchinson, Terry Rhoades, Lou Church) (Transit of Venus)
 
   June 8, 2004
* NASA (Website) (Venus Transit - 2004 - Sun-Earth Day)   

   Feb. 3, 2005
* NASA (SpaceWeather.com) (website) (Front page) (Comet Machholz)

   May 1, 2005
* The Cloud Appreciation Society (Great Brittain) (website) Cloud Gallery - Front Page - featured sunsets, rainbow & Cumulus clouds.

   May 2, 2005 (Monday)
* Muncie Star Press (newspaper) Feature article... "His Head is in the Clouds".

   October 8, 2005
* Skychasers.net (website) (lightning strikes)

  
   May 8, 2006
* Spaceweather.com (website) comet near Ring Nebula

 December 11, 2006
* Spaceweather.com Jupiter/Mercury/Mars conjunction

  May, 2008
* Astronomy Magazine (June, 2008 issue) Photos and descriptions of 2001 Leonid Meteor Shower "smoke rings".