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Our Sister Galaxy -- Andromeda
Our Sister Galaxy -- Andromeda
jlanoue


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Best of 2007 (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Location: Bedford, NH
Date: Sep 14, 2007
Aperture: 160mm
ISO: 800
Shutter: b
Galleries: Astrophotography
Date Uploaded: Jan 16, 2008

This is a composite of 10 4 minute exposures of the andromeda galaxy. Located 2.3 million light years away from our home galaxy (the milky way), this galaxy is the only consistently visible object in the night time sky that's not part of our galaxy. This shot was taken this past September, Canon 350xt, ISO800, tracked with a Losmandy G11 mount, lens was a Tak e-160 telescope.

Processing: each of the individual sub exposures needs to be aligned to a single master, as there is a tiny amount of movement from subexposure to subexposure, if you didn’t do this, the end product would show stars as arcs. I used registar to align the subexposures, then brought all 10 into ps7, layered all 10 and set the transparency for each sub in descending order, the first is 100%, second is 50%, third is 33%, fourth is 25%, etc… for each individual sub exposure I did color correction pulling down the red midtones and bumping up the blue and greens, selective contrast enhancement and finally selective curves. Flatten image and repeat selective contrast enhancements and curves.

Statistics
Place: 47 out of 484
Avg (all users): 6.5435
Avg (commenters): 7.8824
Avg (participants): 6.4024
Avg (non-participants): 6.8939
Views since voting: 3614
Views during voting: 402
Votes: 230
Comments: 18
Favorites: 6 (view)


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03/21/2008 07:55:52 PM
Have you ever heard of Alex Collier? he claims to be from there! What a great shot, and this galaxy looks rounder than ours.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/27/2008 09:44:43 PM
Love this shot. Dying to see what you used to capture it.
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01/27/2008 09:05:42 PM
Stunningly captured!
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01/27/2008 07:44:42 PM
This is such a cool shot. I could venture a guess...maybe 900-1000 sec?! You have great color and framing here. It makes me think of the DVD Louie Giglio produced that is called "How Great Is Our God". I like this alot -BB

P.S. Is this jlanoue?
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01/27/2008 06:25:31 PM
what is this like a 300mm lens or something? ;)
beautiful.
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01/26/2008 01:39:45 PM
I have passed over this image a few times now and although I really like astronomy, this really does nothing for me. Sorry. Good Luck. 4.
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01/26/2008 01:26:57 PM
geez...thanks for reminding me who crappy my lens is. ;)
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01/26/2008 09:24:55 AM
awesome.
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01/25/2008 08:51:52 PM
Nice astrophotography Incredibly tough stuff. Beautiful exposure control. 10
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01/25/2008 02:50:22 PM
You must have some wicked equipment!
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01/24/2008 05:39:29 PM
Quite an impressive "Best of" :)
I bet it's even better at full resolution.

The purple hue lends to femininity, making it more sisterly.
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01/23/2008 09:27:16 PM
Simply amazing that you can capture this, well done.
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01/23/2008 10:54:09 AM
Wow! What an amazig capture. I have tried so hard (unsuccessfully)to capture a sky full of stars like that. I am incredibly impressed, and will definitely be going back after the challenge to see what settings you used, and to see if you gave any tips on how to accomplish something this stunning! Hopefully this will be in the top few so it will be easy to find :)
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01/23/2008 02:03:12 AM
I didn't realize the Hubble telescope had sold. One hell of a telephoto lens is all I can say...
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01/21/2008 07:03:45 PM
Lovely view indeed. I look forward to reading more about how your photo was taken when the challenge ends. 8.
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01/21/2008 03:43:24 PM
Ah, my favourite galaxy :)

Beautiful image. I wonder if a bit more post-processing could have made it pop even more though?
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01/21/2008 12:55:39 PM
Very nice ... exposure info will be interesting to see!
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01/21/2008 12:38:24 AM
Wow how cool is this shot! 9
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