The "great nebula in Andromeda" as Hubble used to call it, before we knew enough to call those faint fuzzy things galaxies. Taken with the 70-200 f4 riding piggyback on a tracking telescope for tracking and stability.
This is a single frame of several I shot that night, processed for sky darkness and star illumination using curves and levels only. Used KODAK GEM for noise removal. Cropped to center galaxy, rotated 180 degrees.
Due to an accident of celestial alignments, our Milky Way would look much like this to an observer living in the Andromeda galaxy, thus, it represents in an extreme sense "our corner of the world."
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i dont know how your average can be so low, this is one of the best astrophotos ive seen! Sorry i didnt vote i was feeling lazy that week. How much did your setup cost curiously?
It's too bad this didn't score higher; perhaps it's because of the challenge topic (look at all those under-5 scores). Anyway, I thought it was mind blowing!
Is that Andromeda? - Nice idea for the challenge. Although I didn't score it very highly as I have seen better astrophotographs of Andromeda than this one; and that's all I have to compare it to. But I do know how difficult these shots are to get right - and it is a good effort. I'd like to hear what setup/processing you used for this.
Wow! Now that is one stunning shot of Andromeda! I've tried to capture the same view several times with an 8" SCT and Canon 350D, but haven't managed anything close to this. I demand the details! 10
This is excellent from a single frame and great for this challenge. It must be very dark where you are, mine are always orange from streetlights. 10, out of this world.
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