Fantastic Image of Milky Way that took two years in the making

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It took two years to get the perfect image from an Island close to Madagascar. God has blessed this universe with magnificent sights for us to behold.

I'M SIGNIFICANT!!!


.... Ahem.... Great picture.

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Truly a sight to see, And one of infite.

Thanks very much for sharing.

it goes alright ay for a medium sized galaxy, which wouldn't be here if we weren't.

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Wow! What an absolutely amazing part of the universe we live in to see such beauty!

Great pic

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It didn't take two years to make.
He waited two years to get the perfect light conditions.

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Impressive, to say the least.

Imagine trying to capture an image for two years!
I hardly have patience for the timer on my microwave let alone a picture.

Just goes to show what a little dedication and preserverance will get you!



Nice picture!

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If he has a plan to take the picture, he's actively searching / waiting for the right lighting conditions, and he then takes the picture then I'd say it took two years to make it.

Kind of like cooking something, you plan to cook it, have the recipe, and have to let something sit two hours, it still took you two hours to make it.

It's still a great picture though, whether it took him two years or two minutes to take it!

We are just protons and electrons in the vastness of space.... we are tiny.

Thanks for posting

Here is a link to a slideshow of the other photos that were taken on the island by astrophotographer Luc Perot.

This is some pretty amazing work.

Luc Perot Slideshow

This is beautiful.

I can only imagine what it would be like to witness this with my own eyes.

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Wow folks check out this guys photo gallery... there are so many beautiful pictures like this one, many of them are even better than the one pictured by the OP in my opinion. Awesome stuff.

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nice
star for you

God has blessed this universe with magnificent sights for us to behold.

There is no god.

lol!!

Thats an amazing shot from Earth, No wonder he had to go to an island to get the perfect light conditions, most people cant even see the Milky way, due to light pollution. Nice pic
Dont want to sound stupid, but is the very bright section of the pic, the center of our galaxy, or is this just part of a spiral arm???

Nevermind, just read the link, its part of Orions arm, and is the central band of our galaxy

Originally posted by spore

God has blessed this universe with magnificent sights for us to behold.

There is no god.

lol!!

The universe is god imho!
Very nice pic OP tar and flag

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Awesome pic......just like the Milky Way Youtube videos you can find. I wish we could really see it like that!!

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Thanks for saving me the reading.
I was like Whahhhhh?!?! Two YEARS?!?!

I am a photographer and can not concieve of any way for a pic to take TWO years to make.
Cool pic though. I think that most people would be surprised at the quality of pics they could take of the milky way with their own cameras and a tripod.

I have plenty.
I'll post them sometime.
Pretty cool stuff.

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you cant look at the milky way because we are part of it, when will people understand this...

the only way we could look at the milky way is if we are right now still eating another galaxy that we had a tug of war with and we are still eating the smaller galaxy... and i doubt it is ...

so this isnt the milky way

very very nice photo. I find it interesting to try to picture the idea that the darker spots you see are actually MASSIVE dust-clouds that are obscuring the real, extremely-bright center of the galaxy. The one part that is the brightest is the part that is unobscured in the longest line-of-sight.

Thank you for sharing!!!