StAnD Image Competition!

M27, the Dumbbell Nebula, (AiM Münster/The Schools’ Observatory)

Start this new school term with a competition for your students!

Enable your students to create their own astronomy images with professional robotic telescopes – the best images will be printed in the StAnD Calendar 2027!

And all selected entries will appear in the StAnD Image Gallery on the project website, including full credit to the student(s) and school.

This is another way to help your classes engage with astronomy and learn how to use The Schools Observatory.

Categories of the image competition

  • Gas Nebulae
  • Galaxies
  • The Moon
  • Comets and Asteroids
  • Meteor Camera Images
Moon - Liverpool Telescope (La Palma)

The Moon is covered in craters showing the impact of asteroids, and the 2m Liverpool Telescope (La Palma) can help students to capture images of this surface.

How to enter the competition

Full details on how to enter the competition

Click Here

And your national StAnD contact can help answer any questions.

❊ Deadline for entries: 29 May 2026 ❊

The students’ work and their calendar will be presented at the COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Florence, Italy, 1-9 August 2026 to an audience of international space scientists.