2012 May 9: The winners of the Third International Earth and Sky Photo Contest on Dark Skies Importance are announced. International projects The World at Night and Global Astronomy Month along with the National Optical Astronomy Observatory are the organizers of the Earth and Sky Photo Contest. The contest was founded by TWAN and Dark Skies Awareness project in 2008 as a regional program. It was expanded to an international effort in 2009 during the International Year of Astronomy.
The winners and notable photos of the third International Earth and Sky
Photo Contest, (twanight.org/contest), a program by The World at Night
(TWAN) in collaboration with the Global Astronomy Month (www.astrowb.org)
and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO). The music is a remix
of Thomas Nordwest (www.thomasnordwest.com) - Galaxy Of Obscured Lovestars,
Carbon Based Lifeforms (www.carbonbasedlifeforms.net) - Twentythree, Aes
Dana – Perimeters, Ultimae Records (www.ultimae.com). More information on
the contest page: www.twanight.org/contest
