The Magellan Nebula captured by amateur astronomers

The Magellan Nebula, located 163,000 light-years from Earth, is located right next to the Milky Way galaxy. Named after the milestone of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, the galaxy cannot be seen here because it lies in the southern sky. There is an amateur photographer who photographed such a Magellanic Cloud over several months. It was filmed over a whopping 1,060 hours. Only the original image is over 80MB.

When taking a picture in a bright day, the shutter is pressed as soon as it clicks. However, in order to capture the light from the stars in the night sky, you have to open the shutter for a long time and take long exposure shots that keep the camera lit. The long exposure shooting time is usually from a few minutes to tens of minutes, no matter how long it is, even hours. However, the photographs of the Magellanic Cloud were taken over several months, and the total exposure time reached 1,060 hours as previously described.

The picture was taken by Cielaustral, an amateur astronomer made up of five French. The filming location is the European Southern Observatory located in Chile. They moved to Chile altogether, minus one, and filmed the night sky for a year and a half from July 24, 2017 to January 31, 2019. All the recorded data is 620GB. Related information can be found here .