above Esfahan. About 240 entries were submitted to the Second Annual Earth and Sky Photo Contest. “The selected images are those most effective in impressing people on both how important and amazing the starry sky is and how it effects our lives, and also how bad the problem of light pollution has become,” states The World At Night (TWAN) website. Mehdi Momenzadeh won a $400 prize with this photo showing the Milky Way with the lights of Esfahan blotting out the stars at both ends.
