A LAMPETER photography student’s atmospheric shot of the moon has booked her a place on the shortlist for a national award.

Katherine “Eva” Young, a MA in cultural astronomy and astrology distance student in the Sophia Centre at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David’s campus in Lampeter, is in the running for the 2016 Insight Astronomy of the Year Photographer award for her photograph ‘Rise Lunation’.

This year’s competition drew 4,500 entries and only 140 photographs were shortlisted.

Katherine’s photo submission ‘Rise Lunation’ included her quote: “There is little clarity through the atmospherics that can intensify horizons - to portray it as such would be unnatural. As the Moon emerges, I relish the ripples and surprising shimmers - it extends and reaches through its seeming climb, out of this world!”

Turner Prize-winning artist Wolfgang Tillmans and Oana Sandu of the European Southern Observatory join the judging panel this year and the overall winner will be announced on Thursday, 15 September at a special ceremony at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

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