{"id":135484,"date":"2025-09-13T22:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T22:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/135484\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T22:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T22:02:07","slug":"aurorae-2025-zwo-astronomy-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/135484\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurorae 2025 \u2013 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Category winner<\/p>\n<p>Crown of Light by Kavan Chay<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Taken during the G5 storm [the most extreme level of geomagnetic storm] in May 2024, I knew this shot would work out the moment I stumbled upon the big, distinctly red auroral display that morning. The reds were a level of intensity I had never experienced,&#8221; recalls photographer Kavan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was excited as I drove to the location, wired and not feeling the lack of sleep as I set up my camera alongside flocks of people who had also decided to come out and chase the elusive Aurora Australis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I eventually called it a night, exhausted but very satisfied, after 24 hours of being awake. While shooting this, I captured panorama after panorama, hoping for a display that would line up compositionally with this foreground element.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taken in Tumbledown Bay, Little River, Banks Peninsula Community, New Zealand, 10 May 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Category winner Crown of Light by Kavan Chay &#8220;Taken during the G5 storm [the most extreme level of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-135484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}