Imaging contests
AstroBin supports imaging contests, both to let you discover amazing new astrophotographs every day and to entertain you during those long cloudy streaks.
As a member of AstroBin Lite, Premium or Ultimate, you can participate in the Top Picks and Image of the Day processes.
The “AstroBin Image of the Day and Top Picks” is a long-running system to promote beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing astrophotographs, with a focus on technical excellence.
Anybody can volunteer to enter a voting jury, called the IOTD Staff, that selects the most beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing images on AstroBin, daily.
Plans for the near future (estimated late 2024) include a community driven, generic contests module, that will allow anyone to create custom contests. Here's some ideas:
Lunar terminator yearly contest
Best Southern deep sky object
Comet of the month
ISS transit yearly contest
Weekly/monthly/yearly contests with whatever theme
… anything your imagination can come up with!