For astrophotography, lightpollutionis the worst enemy, so you better get away from bright city lights.
Also, it is quite dry, with the most clear nights per year in Europe.
Later in post-production those images were stacked together to create the finalmaster imageto edit.
Greg tracked down the remarkable celestial object to just 12 degrees above the horizon.
I had only 1 night to grab this shot, and only about 1 hour to do it.
It was sinking fast below the horizon after sunset, Greg shared in an interview withSpace.com.
This relatively isolated spiral galaxy is located 17 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices.
Check out the results:
