About Tom Rae
Born 2005. Tom Rae is a photographer.
Tom Rae (born ) is a New Zealand astro-photographer.
Born in , Rae has been interested in photography and astronomy since he was 13. Rae won the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year award in the Skyscapes category twice in a row, in 2024 and 2025.
Rae works with Nikon cameras that have been "astro-modified" to allow in wavelengths of light that would normally be filtered in camera optics. Celestial Radiance (2023), which was recognised in that year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year award, was taken at Lake Tekapo.
Rae's photography has been published in National Geographic, The Guardian, Forbes and by NASA.
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