Passing h&x Persei by lordgoron
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Description
Hello,
many thanks to all who commented on my recent upload :)
To give the alien ship a chance to fly before going to my harddisk-nirvana I did this one. The background is a photo I took myself 3 weeks ago by making a 30 second exposure through my 4 inch refractor (500mm focallength) with an EOS 400D, it shows the famous double cluster h&x (h & chi ot simply NGC 869 & NGC 884) within the constellation Perseus. In clear nights a few miles away from large, lightpolluting cities the two starclusters can easily be seen with your naked eye - truly a fine object, and a nice background, though I am not really an astrophotographic expert so these photos are far away from being as perfect as those released by NASA :)
Hope you like it.

Comments (9)
Very cool image...photo works well with your model...excellent mood and lighting!
Great work...
Fantastic mood and scene.
Cool space scene and modeling. Nice work!
Very cool scene, made even more cool that the star cluster was shot by you on your own telescope!
Great work!!
Cool space scene!
Nice integration of photo and rendered elements; terrific flare effects along with an interesting model. I too used to do a fair amount of astrophotography, but living in NYC does not provide much opportunity these days what with the titanic levels of light pollution. Nice image!
I love this ! very cool :) Neat model :)