{"id":6974,"date":"2012-08-08T11:34:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T01:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=6974"},"modified":"2012-08-14T10:14:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T00:14:15","slug":"australian-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/arts-science\/australian-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian skies: David Malin Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6988\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6988\" title=\"Melbourne\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Melbourne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Melbourne.jpg 605w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Melbourne-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Melbourne-250x147.jpg 250w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Melbourne-136x80.jpg 136w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Melbourne Moon&quot; by Phil Hart, winner of the Solar System (Wide-Field) category and Overall Winner. Image: Phil Hart<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This image won the David Malin Award, a prestigious astrophotography contest organised by the Central West Astronomical Society. Astrophotographer David Malin declared &#8220;Melbourne Moon&#8221;\u009d the overall winner. Photographer Phil Hart captured this image on November 12, 2011, using a 300 mm lens and 1.4x teleconverter.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Ward&#8217;s &#8220;King of Pain,&#8221;\u009d which captures the Transit of Venus of June 6, 2012, also won in the Solar System-Hires category. Ward used an Astro-Physics AP130 refractor telescope, a Coronado H-alpha filter and Skynyx 2-2 camera to create this fantastic image that combines 1,500 frames.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7054\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7054\" title=\"TransitofVenus\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TransitofVenus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TransitofVenus.jpg 605w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TransitofVenus-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TransitofVenus-250x178.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">High-resolution view of Venus against the Sun in Hydrogen Alpha light. Image: Peter Ward<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition <strong>Winning Sky: David Malin Awards 2010<\/strong> will be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneyobservatory.com.au\/2012\/2012-08-17-winning-sky-photos-david-malin-awards-launch-event\/\">Sydney Observatory <\/a>in the Rocks from August 17 until October 29, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image won the David Malin Award, a prestigious astrophotography contest organised by the Central West Astronomical Society. Astrophotographer David Malin declared &#8220;Melbourne Moon&#8221;\u009d the overall winner. Photographer Phil Hart captured this image&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-science","category-bulls-eye"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6974"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7057,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974\/revisions\/7057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}