Older, but no wiser

This image would be remarkable enough if it had been taken with the Hubble or Hale telescope, but it wasn’t. It was taken by an amateur, without even a “proper” observatory. Admittedly he has some rather nice looking kit, but the results are staggering - as beautiful and awe-inspiring as any astronomical shots I’ve seen. And I rather suspect it takes more than just a lot of expensive equipment to produce shots like this.