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)

 

Images featured 79 times by the NASA website "Astronomy Picture of the Day".

 

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