<story><title>Ultra Deep look at Messier 81 and 82</title><url>https://theuberger.ch/post/astrophotography/20230507-m81m82-collab/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmreedy</author><text>&amp;#x27;With grave joy we, the cosmical explorers, who were already gathered up into the communal mind of our own galaxy, now found ourselves in intimate union with a score of other galactic minds, We, or rather I, now experienced the slow drift of the galaxies much as a man feels the swing of his own limbs. From my score of viewpoints I observed the great snow-storm of many millions of galaxies, streaming and circling, and ever withdrawing farther apart from one another with the relentless &amp;quot;expansion&amp;quot; of space. But though the vastness of space was increasing in relation to the size of galaxies and stars and worlds, to me, with my composite, scattered body, space seemed no bigger than a great vaulted hall.&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;- Olaf Stapledon, &lt;i&gt;Star Maker&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not much inspires a sense of meaning in me these days like the sheer scope and scale and depth of creation.&lt;p&gt;Beautiful work.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ultra Deep look at Messier 81 and 82</title><url>https://theuberger.ch/post/astrophotography/20230507-m81m82-collab/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mnw21cam</author><text>See also: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.astrobin.com&amp;#x2F;7ez0pl&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.astrobin.com&amp;#x2F;7ez0pl&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.astrobin.com&amp;#x2F;hhegwl&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.astrobin.com&amp;#x2F;hhegwl&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;
They were also taken by a group of amateurs across the world collaborating.</text></comment>