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It’s just a photoshop composite of some picture of the andromeda scaled to match the size of the moon, not a well principled simulation of a wide field survey t

It’s just a photoshop composite of some picture of the andromeda scaled to match the size of the moon, not a well principled simulation of a wide field survey telescope with otherworldly dynamic range. Don’t worry about it.

vl 7y ago
The point of the article is that it’s not scaled, it’s brightened. Angular sizes are correct.
- mkl 7y ago
  It needed to be scaled to be correct. The moon and Andromeda images were taken separately, scaled to match each other, and composited together.