But blatantly Photoshopped. No way in hell could you get such an image with M31 so close to the "horizon".
I did not realize. I do not like photoshopping my images. As far as I take it is cropping else it’s not photography. My opinion.
“Also known as M31, the Andromeda Galaxy dominates the center of the featured zoomed image, taken from the Sahara Desert in Morocco last month. The featured image is a combination of three background and one foreground exposure — all taken with the same camera and from the same location and on the same calendar day — with the foreground image taken during the evening blue hour”
Part of my fascination with the stars is that’s the actual size of that galaxy in the sky. When you look up towards the big dipper where andromeda is, that’s what you’d see. The limitation being the light pollution, pollen and particulates in the atmosphere, and our eyes aren’t designed to collect light that way.
The california nebula loops all around the constellation orion, it’s HUGE. There’s so much out there if only we had the eyes, or the imagination I guess, to see it.
Of course it is. I don’t begrudge the photographer taking some artistic license.
Most of us know it’s photoshopped. It does add an air of fantasy, a science fiction type atmosphere.
It also shows off the photographer’s skills with his hardware and software.
I have two nice scopes, but I don’t have the skills or a camera capable of taking such a picture of M31. I wish I did.🔭🙂
The featured image is a combination of three background and one foreground exposure — all taken with the same camera and from the same location and on the same calendar day — with the foreground image taken during the evening blue hour.
You seem to have failed reading comprehension, FRiend.
APOD is no better than todays Media... putting out so much fake photography, a child to adults have no clue what is real, and what is fake. which means they learn nothing of importance.