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Two Galaxies (M81 and M82)
Two Galaxies (M81 and M82)
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study 2007-03 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Location: My backyard
Date: Mar 11, 2007
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 800
Shutter: 300s three times
Date Uploaded: Mar 29, 2007

 It is astrophotography shot taken on 11.03.2007.

Orion Optics Europa f/4.5 telescope was used and Vixe GP-DX mount with autoguding.

Hope you like it...

Composition was made in Photoshop CS2 with layers.

Statistics
Place: 70 out of 561
Avg (all users): 6.3376
Avg (commenters): 7.3636
Avg (participants): 6.3554
Avg (non-participants): 6.2778
Views since voting: 1064
Views during voting: 248
Votes: 157
Comments: 12
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 04/13/2007 09:16:13 PM
Very nice Astrophotograph ! Check out Slooh.com Remote Telescopes in the Canary Islands and soon Chile.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/06/2007 11:15:35 PM
It always amazes me to look at these kind of shots...so unreal.
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 04/05/2007 10:22:42 AM
that is quite the powerful lens you have there 1
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 04/05/2007 02:36:45 AM
God is amazing!
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 04/03/2007 07:18:10 PM
uh oh... someone on dpc has commandeered the hubble space telescope!

seriously, i cant wait to see what the focal length of this bad boy is...
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 04/03/2007 05:02:42 AM
Lovely:P
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 04/03/2007 03:02:01 AM
I really enjoy this photograph. I vote a 10.
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 04/02/2007 08:49:24 PM
Outstanding image of M81 & M82. Really good detail. the exposure and color balance are right on.
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 04/02/2007 07:38:11 PM
This is incredible!!! What type of leans did you use?
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 04/02/2007 05:06:10 PM
Right then, joke's on me as I now have to plough through 564 images and bump them all (yes, all of them) up. There'll be a third run through for fine tuning. It's day two now and I'm running late, sorry.

Grandma, what a big lens you have...
Impressive. Hard to score (compare) 6
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 04/01/2007 09:04:25 PM
Holy cow....Awesome!!!
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 04/01/2007 06:29:28 PM
Wow. Just wow. How do you take these?! Is that Andromeda on the left?
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