Northern Hemisphere 2026 Winners
As always picking the winners in the nPAE Northern Hemisphere Championship was not an easy task. All 12 of finalists show individual merit and it’s an achievement to make the final stage.
However, there has to be winner. Here we present the awards in reverse order!
In 3rd Place, Is Artemi from Bulgaria with his Home Beneath Orion. It is a stack of 10 exposures – ISO: 2500, f1/8, 13″ using a Sony A7 III (Astro modified) with a Sony FE 20mm f/1.8 G lens mounted with a Silence Corner ATOLL S+ rotating collar all atop a Benro Tortoise TTOR35CGX35 tripod. Edited with Photoshop and Sequator. The judges loved the composition here with the internally illuminated building (with it’s own observation tower!) appearing from the mist with a glowing Orion constellation showing the colours of Betelgeuse and the nebula peeking out from behind some low level clouds.
Wins: nPAE Gift Pack (Large +Small torch + carbon fibre pen)
In 2nd Place, is Imre from Hungary with his Jupiter Io Transit. It was taken with a Celestron C11XLT, Baader 2.25x barlow, ZWO ADC, ZWO ASI585MC and SvBony UV/IR cut. The judges were awed by this King of Planets photo and very impressed by the Io surface colouration detail.
Wins: £50 nPAE Voucher
The 1st Place and nPAE Northern Hemisphere Champion 2026 is Lorand for his Planetary Project of 2025. Taken with a 400/1820 DIY Newtonian Astrograph and Fornax 150 mount with 16 hours of exposure. This is very much an astrophotographer’s astro photograph! The detail here is extreme with deep fields showing distant galaxies! The judges were stunned by the comparative composition at 1:1 scale and the individual beauty of each planetary nebula. Congratulations Lorand! A well won competition.
Wins: £200 and entry into the nPAE 2026 World Championship
