Sigvald1 OP t1_iy2mipy wrote on November 28, 2022 at 7:15 AM

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Optimistic nihilism. Exactly. Thank you for commenting!

Sigvald1 OP t1_ixzorvj wrote on November 27, 2022 at 5:29 PM

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I use star adventurer GTI.

Sigvald1 OP t1_ixzoq2p wrote on November 27, 2022 at 5:29 PM

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Wow… wow what a description, our life truly is meaningless on a cosmic scale. But that is what makes it amazing, us being to able look and wonder.

Sigvald1 OP t1_ixzipob wrote on November 27, 2022 at 4:47 PM

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Thank you!

Sigvald1 OP t1_ixzey3n wrote on November 27, 2022 at 4:21 PM

Reply to Andromeda galaxy taken with just a normal Camera, lens and a tracker by Sigvald1

ANDROMEDA GALAXY

My first ever tracked image!! 🤯 Previously I have only ever done untracked

It is 2.5 million light years away and contains about a trillion stars, each and every star has a high probability of planets orbiting around them. There has to be life out there…

It’s just so mindblowing to me, that I am able to photograph a whole different galaxy, a different world, 2.5 million years in the past. All this with a normal camera and tracker.

So last weekend I went to my cabin near steinkjer (Norway) in bortle 3 (low light pollution). It was -14 outside and prime conditions for seeing/photographing. The total integration time for this Image is 30 minutes.

I stacked all the pictures in deepskystacker together with the calibration frames. After i imported the file i got out of DSS into Photoshop. There i used levels to stretch out the image and curves to make galaxy be more visible. Then i used a script called starnet++ to remove the stars of the image, this is because with the stars on a seperate layer I can work on the galaxy without distorting stars. This is also how I reduce the stars to make the galaxy pop out more.

If you are fascinated by space as much i am, please check out My Instagram: sigurd_photo instagram

INFO: Lights: 43x40s, Darks: 15, Flats: 15, Biases: 20, Camera: fujifilm xt30 (APS-C), Lens: 55-200mm F4.6, ISO: 1250, Bortle: 3, Tracker: star adventurer gtI