Award received
Comet-like success for the “star hunter”
When Gerald Rhemann looks up at the night sky, he sees lots of photo motifs. Now the astrophotographer has received a prestigious award!
This year, Gerald Rhemann brought the globally coveted title of Astronomy Photographer of the Year from the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London to Austria for the first time with his picture "Disconnection Event". He beat off competition from more than 3000 entries from 67 countries.
The retired technician and telescope salesman discovered the hobby of astrophotography 35 years ago and set up a small observatory in his little house in Eichgraben in the Vienna Woods. "My winning picture shows the comet 'Leonard', whose plasma tail was detached by an interplanetary shock wave," explains the 67-year-old proudly.
"The sight is simply overwhelming"
However, the camera was located in an observatory in Namibia. Rhemann had mounted it on the telescope there and adapted it so that he could control it from his living room at home. Why Namibia? - "The country is one of the darkest spots in the world. In addition, the center of the Milky Way is at its zenith in the southern hemisphere, and the view is simply overwhelming," enthuses this year's world champion of astrophotography.
Incidentally, astrophotography is only remotely related to normal photography. Rhemann set an exposure time of 52 minutes for the winning image. "Not only does the Earth's rotation have to be compensated for, but also the comet's own movement in front of the celestial background," reports Rhemann.
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