Also this is a 3d animation of our setup used to shoot this image:

Austria ;)

Full resolution image and more details here

Also this is what our setup looks like to shoot such an image:

The equipment put together:

Since people are commenting this image is „fake“ or „ai“, here is the same scene shot from a similar location with a cheap smartphone:

Tl;DR The EU makes sure that third party developers gain access to connectivity features to develop devices like smartwatches, headphones or VR headsets that have a deep integration to the OS.

It is crucial that the request process is transparent, timely, and fair so that all developers have an effective and predictable path to interoperability and are enabled to innovate.

Yes, I used Siril for stacking/ stretching, Starnett++ for star removal (to edit the glimpse of orion nebula a little better), GraXpert for gradient and noise, and BlurXTerminator for deconvolution. Final editing was done in Photoshop.

So heavy editing indeed…

I take this as a compliment, as I tried to imitate a miniature model town. The village is photographed with a tele lens from a mountain. Then with very tedious post processing several layers of blur was added to amplify the tilt shift effect.

Glueing and screwing the parts:

One result shot with this mount (and many other accessories):

Very special diffraction lens used…