Astrophoto: Starry Night by Lon Seidman

There are many pictures in Universe Today such as the above with star trails showing the night sky in ways in which it is not normally seen. But one kind of view is never shown. I would like to see the night’s sky with landscape below photoshopped with deep sky objects as if they were not too faint to be seen. The Andromeda Galaxy stretches beyond its bright core 190? across the constellation Andromedan — that is nearly six times the diameter of the moon. Yet I have never seen a photo of the Andromedan constellation with the Andromeda Galaxy as it would appear if we could see the faintest detail of its spiral structure including satellite galaxies. What would it look like rising above the horizon? Likewise, the Orion Nebula stretches 65′×60′ covering an area of sky four times that of the moon. It would be good to see what the Orion constellation would look like if we could look up at it and see that nebula to its faintest detail and color.

Which Nikon 50mm do you have? The key is to take hundreds of shorter exposures as opposed to a single long one.