My 5th time trying to image a seemingly easy target with something being off… This time I must have nudged the lens out of focus slightly and there was some dew forming on the lens that I hadn’t noticed. This hobby sure has a steep learning curve!

Still, decided to not throw away the whole attempt and did a quick processing. It’s about 45 minutes worth of 30 sec exposures at 500mm f6.3.

Feedback appreciated!

  • niktemadur@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    To think that all those individual stars are much, much closer to us, around a few hundred light years at most, while that thing in the background thousands of times more distant, at least two-and-a-half million lightyears behind.

    Let’s put it this way:
    Let’s say that with your telescope you can see stars that are around 3000 lightyears away. That’s about a kiloparsec, give or take.
    Meanwhile, Andromeda is around 780 kiloparsecs behind that.