Imaging of astronomical objects or large regions of the sky.
Questions tagged [astrophotography]
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How can we take pictures of something billion of light years away?
I have had this question in my mind for a long time, I thought you guys might enlighten me easily.
I am confused about some space photographs and claims like "this galaxy is 13 billions light years away from us.": how we can take the photograph of…

Tolga Evcimen
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Considerations about a mathematically accurate calculation of astrophotography exposure times
Dear StackExchange community,
I hope this is the right place for my question. This question is motivated by the photographical topic, but is about a purely mathematical issue.
In astrophotography, a common problem is the "trailing" of stars in…

edfrank
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