Some Milestones in Astrophotography

 

 

September 2003; Image of the Andromeda Galaxy selected as one of the greatest astronomical images of the last 30 years by Astronomy Magazine

 

October 2006; Published "A Year in the Life of the Universe" in 4 languages (English, Polish, Greek, Spanish)

 

2006; Image of IC405 selected as one of six images to appear on a commemorative stamp issued by the UK Royal Mail

 

September 2007; one of several featured amateur astronomers in Timothy Ferris's PBS documentary "Seeing in the Dark"

 

2007; Selected into the SBIG astroimaging "Hall of Fame"

 

October 2007; Awarded the "Hubble Prize" for contributions to astrophotography at the Advanced Imaging Conference in San Jose, California

 

2008; Mosaic of the Andromeda Galaxy sited in the Guiness Book of World Records as the Largest image (in pixel dimensions) ever taken of a spiral galaxy

 

June, 2009: Published "Capturing the Stars: Astrophotography by the Masters", Published by Voyageur Press

 

August 2011: Image of the "Pleiades" appears in 2011 German "Astronomy" postal stamp series.

 

September 2011: Published "Treasures of the Southern Sky" (Springer)

 

March 2012: Image of NGC 3190 bought by "Apple" as the background for OS X "Mountain Lion" 10.8.

 

Images featured 82 times by the NASA website "Astronomy Picture of the Day".

 

Over 400 book and magazine publications including over 40 "cover" images.