Milkyway:
Amateur astronomy
2.9 million years ago in the outer atmosphere of a star similar to the sun, an atom in a thermally excited state liberates a photon. The photon traverses through
space to a nearby planet orbiting the star, it reflects on the skin of a species of an alien life form not know to mankind and travels through space
towards Earth. After a dazling journey over 2.9 million Earth years the photon passes into our solar system, enter Earth atmosphere and is
captured in the telescope pointed at the Andromeda galaxy from my backyard. The photon finally meets its fate being registred
in the retina of my eye.
It's always a great experience to get out under a clear dark sky observing and recording as many others have done earlier
the faint light from distant worlds. Theres no substitute for being out there yourself collecting those ancient records of the vast universe that
surrounds us and wonder about what other worlds out there might look like.
Andromeda galaxy, C8 at F6.3 w. Alan Gee, Canon EOS 450D mod. 1h25min (19x300sec) at 1600 ISO.
Link to my old web pages, with info on Cookbook camera and some modifications for the original C8 setup.
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