It's a little out of the way.



Nicely done!

Congratulations! You must be so proud of this image.

Really makes you stop and think. And wonder…

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Simply amazing!

You must have a very smooth mount!!

The mount is more important for astrophotography.
Unlike visual work where minor wiggles are ok astrophotography doesn’t really have tolerance for it. I really want a 4-5” refractor around 5-60mm of focal length and fast
Plus a dedicated Astro cam. And better filters and….

Amazing work.

Impressive at every level

I don’t have the patience.
I considered a career in astronomy.
Decided that getting paid was a better option.

ENJOY. HAVE A BLAST.
Awesome to share these works.
✨🔭

Added a link to my 20mm camera lens photo
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1036136930

once i set up i can program a little device i have to take x number of exposures of 5 length. then once it starts shooting i can ignore it until its done x hours later. In the morning I take a series of calibration exposures and then download the whole group onto my computer for processing. thats where the real work is.
stacking all these frames (over 300) took almost 200gb of hard drive space and about 4 hours for my computer to process. then i work on bringing out teh details

But I get a tiny fuzzy patch instead of your great photo.

Fantastic skill and patience.

I sure hope so, would be fun to meet them

The Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light years from us. You could fit about 25 Milky Way galaxies between us and them.

Stellar photo. Thank you for posting it.

Thank you

i just have to figure out how to control matter anti matter reactions using dilithium crystals

Stunning pic.

What a triumph!!

Thank you for sharing this.

You get to read great posts like this.

How dark sky does it need to be to take this?
I know we probably can’t see with the naked eye, can we?

it will appear as just a smudge though.
as for taking the picture it can be done in pretty light polluted areas. theres a scale that can be used for how dark teh sky is called teh bortle scale. it goes from 1 (darkest skies in the middle of nowhere like big bend national park) to 9 ( a bright urban area like in the downtown area of a major city)
my skies are bortle 7+ mIm in the first suburb north of austin texas and right by the suburbs downtown area

Or is it with-in the Milky Way?

its M110. the bright spot just below andromeda is another satellite M32

By the way, I love that adorable logo on your photos.

Doesn't look a day over 1 million!