Andromeda Galaxy by AstronomyMan
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
2.25 million light years away and closing on our galaxy at several hundred miles a second. Do not panic, it will not be colliding with us for another 5 billion years (thats a long time for those of you still using digital watches).
This is a complicated picture. Four pictures mosaiced with iMerge. Each quadrant is a stack of 40x3 minute exposures using an 80 mm telescope and an Orion Starshoot CCD camera. Post processing in Paintshop Pro X. Takes 8 hours to take the picture and another 8 hours to process, merge and adjust.
I am exhausted.
Comments (14)
I recon your time spend on this shot is well worth. Amazing colors, truly a fascinating shot. Thanks to share the picture and the info what you go through to have this shot.
Your work is very impressive! Bravo!!!
Very nice. Time weel spent
Thank you very much for sharing! this shot is incredible, but only lovers of the stars can understand the difficulty, the time spending to capture this light so far away, bravo! ^__^
Sitting in stunned silence! Amazing!
Gorgeous, I feel like I could pop over for visit! Well worth your effort! ;']
amazing capture!!! WOW!!! spectacular infact!!
Impressive technical skills!!
Congrats! This is a fitting choice for Last Week in the Gallery, and you certainly worked hard enough to warrant it!
Impressive work (capturing and postworking) !
Congratulations for the selection of your image in LwitG (Last Week in the Gallery – week 39-2007 ) 
curious- is it really less dense on the left hand third? and what is the cloud layer along the top of the galexy? VERY neat picture :)
Curious is good. The cloudy band across the top is one of the spiral arms of the galaxy and is separated from the bulk of the stars by a dust band. Yes it always appears to be more dense on the left (in this picture).
Very nice. My curious is - How do you compensate for the movement blurring resulting from time exposure's on these distance shots?
Wow, fantastic, so beautiful.