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The Andromeda galaxy setting over a farm in Indiana about two weeks ago. This majestic galaxy with its faint spiral arms would appear as large as 6 full moons in the sky if only our eyes could see it in its entirety. This galaxy cannot be photographed with any detail at this focal length with a foreground in a single exposure. This is a 1:1 photographic blend of two photos giving a true perspective, both taken after 200mm on a Nikon D850 from the same location. The first being a stack of 20 - 2 minute tracked exposures just as Andromeda appears above this farm. The second is a single 13 second foreground exposure taken at blue hour that morning.

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