National Geographic Photo Contest 2012 - In Focus - The Atlantic In Focus is featuring 50 images from this year’s National Geographic Photo Contest.  Image Description:  Crater Lake Storm at Sunset: A thunderstorm swirls across the water at Crater Lake National Park, as the setting sun creates a rare double rainbow. Taken from Rim Village, approximately 1,000 feet above the lake’s surface, providing a straight-on vantage point of the storm. (© Duke Miller/National Geographic Photo Contest)
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National Geographic Photo Contest 2012 - In Focus - The Atlantic

In Focus is featuring 50 images from this year’s National Geographic Photo Contest. 

Image Description: 

Crater Lake Storm at Sunset: A thunderstorm swirls across the water at Crater Lake National Park, as the setting sun creates a rare double rainbow. Taken from Rim Village, approximately 1,000 feet above the lake’s surface, providing a straight-on vantage point of the storm.

(© Duke Miller/National Geographic Photo Contest)

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2012 Winners The winners of the 4th Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition were announced yesterday evening at the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London.  The image above is one of my favourites. It is an image of the Pleiades Cluster. The photo was taken by 15-year-old Canadian boy named Jacob von Chorus – winner of the Young Astronomy Photographer category. See Also: BBC NEWS: Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2012
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Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2012 Winners

The winners of the 4th Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition were announced yesterday evening at the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London. 

The image above is one of my favourites. It is an image of the Pleiades Cluster. The photo was taken by 15-year-old Canadian boy named Jacob von Chorus – winner of the Young Astronomy Photographer category.

See Also:

BBC NEWS: Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2012

Source: rmg.co.uk