petrana_batik

It's a nice composite of two images.

(Unless the person was walking on a wall, this capture is simply impossible. Note the profiles of the birds. They are perpendicular to the plane of capture. Still, very original).

"He has obtained a better photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy than the large obervatories used to get with much larger instruments, longer exposures, tedious guiding, and less sensitive media (slow films)."

.. you base this on a 1 megapixel capture shown through a web browser. Sure, the process is tedious, and Howard shows that it is rewarding.. but Andromeda has been photographed a thousand times already; where is the originality in that?