Thanks!

Yes processing the image plays a huge role.

But at the end you can only work with the information provided by your equipment as there are physical limitations on what one can capture.

To me the most interesting part of this hobby is to learn what you physically really have to do to get good images. Physics not only plays a role on understanding what we see in these images but also on how to make them.

Truly fascinating!

While there are tools like generative AI models to invent images like this, in astrophotography it is very important only to use tools which don‘t invent any new information.

The only tool which is debatable is denoising with AI, as it really creates information learned from other images. But even here there are ways to prevent this.

Imo at the end we want to capture whats really out there, not what there could be

I mean, I literally just put the phone on the roof of my car and leaned it against my wallet. It was just an experiment because I wanted to know whats possible with just a phone

Ha thanks, didn’t expect such nice comments for such a bad image. Yes I also was blown away that the nebula is barely noticeable, even with smartphones strong IR filters

Yes, I used Siril for stacking/ stretching, Starnett++ for star removal (to edit the glimpse of orion nebula a little better), GraXpert for gradient and noise, and BlurXTerminator for deconvolution. Final editing was done in Photoshop.

So heavy editing indeed…

Very special diffraction lens used…

Thanks :)

Ahh, thanks!

The surface is very rough as we don’t have the right tools to achieve a smooth finish. As it is very rustic we just leave it as

Yes that’s true, and I think at least in this case the imperfections are acceptable because the desired look was to feature the organic look of the wood. At least it’s a good excuse for the lack of woodworking skills

Thanks, yes there is a very thin sheet of plywood attached at the bottom of each disk. The disks themselves where completely dried before of course

Thanks! There is one anker point at the top with an dowel in the wall. The rest is fairly stable as one piece

Thanks! No the wood isn’t treated in any way

Beautiful!

Thanks!

Thanks! With this focal length the star adventurer is more than sufficient.

Since people are commenting this image is „fake“ or „ai“, here is the same scene shot from a similar location with a cheap smartphone:

I take this as a compliment, as I tried to imitate a miniature model town. The village is photographed with a tele lens from a mountain. Then with very tedious post processing several layers of blur was added to amplify the tilt shift effect.

It is actually a real village. The blur was added in post processing to imitate the tilt shift effect.