The Andromeda Galaxy is the most distant object that is visible to the naked eye. At 2.5 million light-years away from the Earth, it is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It can only be seen if the sky is extremely dark, reports BBC.
However, one guy named Vedant Pratap Singh Jadon made a marvellous attempt at capturing the Andromeda Galaxy from Bhopal and it wasn’t simple at all! He didn’t go to the darkest spot available with a telescope. Instead, he used a basic camera which is over 10 years old and captured the beauty from his roof. Now here’s the catch – he took 3,000 pictures of the sky and later “stacked” them together!
“I couldn’t afford a telescope or a tracker, so I spent 3 nights taking over 3000 exposures of the Andromeda Galaxy using just an entry-level camera from a fairly light-polluted city in Central India,” he writes.
In a Reddit post which has now gone viral, Vedant explains what “Stacking” means:
“Stacking means taking lots of images of the same subject, align them together and take an average of all the frames. This increases the Signal to Noise Ratio(SNR) of the image and reduces the random noise that creeps up in your photos. Bottom line: You can get really high details by stacking multiple images than using just one image.”
This is how the galaxy looked like before:
Here’s the final picture. Doesn’t it look absolutely stunning?
People online, including fellow photographers, were left stunned by the picture! Many lauded him for inspiring people to take beautiful pictures on a budget. Here’s what they said:
This goes on to prove 2 important things:
1) You don’t always need fancy equipment to get the job done.
2) Indians are pros at ‘jugaad’!
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