Our 2026 Photo Competition is open
The UK Astronomy photo competition is an annual event which closes on the 1st November each year. Enter your best photo for a chance to win a 2027 UK
Astronomy calander with your photo featured on one of the months, or the cover. It's for fun and completely free to enter. The idea is to get you out looking
up, trying different things, learning and having a good time.
There are a host of different categories for you to enter your photo into. Each category is chosen to make it more fun. So there's something for everyone from
professionals to amateurs to enjoy! Please note that we have now added a Smart Scope category, so any photos taken by a smart scope must be added to this category.
Any smart scope photos added to other categories will not be counted.
There are fourteen different categories in total. In our 2026 competition, they are :
• The Moon
• Nebula
• Free 4 All
• Clusters and Stars
• The Sun
• Constellations
• Aurora
• Comets and Meteors
• Planets
• The Milky Way
• Smart Phones Only
• International Space Station (ISS)
• Smart Scopes Only
• Galaxies
Our panel of team members will select the 13 winning photos after the competicion closes.
The competition is only open to UK residents and only one photo entry per person is permitted.
Entry will be by completing an entry form at the bottom of this page, which will be made available when the competition opens each year. Once your photo entry is approved, it
will then appear in our competition gallery.
UK Astronomy are extremely thankful to, Dominic Guerney, from EPSON UK, who has sponsored all the prints in this competition.
There will be fourteen categories in which to enter, making the competition more fun with a good range of subjects. So there's something for everyone from the professional to the amateur to enjoy! We're looking forward to receiving your best pictures, but most of all, have fun!
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The winner of the selected categories will win a UK Astronomy calendar with their image printed on the category they won after the year is up. |
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Winning photographs will also be featured on our website. |
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The UK Astronomy photo competition is open to UK residents only. We cannot accept any entries from persons living outside of the United Kingdom. |
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The competition is open to ALL amateur and professional photographers. |
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Photographs must be the original work of the entrant. |
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Competition entries will be accepted from 1st January until the closing date on 31st October of each year. |
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You may submit only one photo entry for the competition year, so choose wisely. |
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Competition entry submissions must be made using the online entry form at the bottom of this page. |
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Photos should be submitted to the particular category they relate to, or as close to it as possible. Entries that do not fit or that do not closely relate to the category selected on the competition entry form will be rejected. |
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Entries must be of a high resolution and between 150KB and 15MB - and must be suitable to be digitally printed. If your entry does not meet this criteria, we may reject your entry and request that you submit a higher resolution version of your photo. |
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Competition winners will be notified at end of the year. Prizes should be sent to the winners in January the following year. |
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Copyright of all photo entries will remain with the photographer. However, all participants grant UK Astronomy the right to use submitted photographs and give express permission to exhibit and / or use them in publicity material for the purpose of promoting UK Astronomy and / or its photography competition. All participants additionally grant UK Astronomy the right to edit or use any submitted images in combination with others. |
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Once you have agreed to these terms and submitted your photo into the competition, your granted express permission for UK Astronomy to use your photo entries cannot be revoked. |
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With the exception of the 'space selfies' category, all photo entries must not feature any identifiable people. |
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Winners will be chosen by UK Astronomy judges. The judges decision is final. |
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Competition entries that do not conform to these Terms and Conditions will be rejected. |
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Ian McLintock,
Founder,
Charity Excellence.
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