Capture the Cosmos – Exploring the Night Sky through Astrophotography by Marty McCormack in Drogheda Library, Marty from Glasnevin is one of Irelands top deep sky astrophotographer’s. Marty is also a leading member of the new Boyne Valley Astronomical Society see

Marty image: ‘The Jewels of the Swan’ was recently awarded the top prize in the 2024 Reach for the Stars astrophotography competitions for the ‘Out of this World – Deep Sky’ category.

This category called for images of celestial objects that exist outside our solar system such as nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies. The winning image captures the Crescent Nebula, a twenty-five light-year-wide emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. Featured in the image is a star at the centre of the nebula shedding its outer layers into space resulting in a dense shell of scorching hot material giving the nebula its shape.

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