Processing the raw images decides whether the accumulated photons become pretty pictures or rather rubbish. Here you can see the miraculous transformation from the raw image to an astrophoto.
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Light pollution is an increasingly annoyance for astrophotographers. The conditions are not optimal in Bremen. At my location on the outskirts, the location is borderline, but not hopeless.
Light pollution map ...

Almost exactly one year after I bought my first telescope, the preparations for the construction of my permanent obervatory started. If I had been told 12 months ago, I would not have believed it.
Building my observatory ...