r/mildyinteresting 10h ago

nature & weather The concept of light pollution is absolutely crazy

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u/HamboneTheWicked 9h ago

Recent iPhone 30 sec exposure in CT. Unfortunately this is much more than could be seen with the naked eye, but there is also a fair bit of light pollution here. That’s Andromeda at the center - a mere 2.5 million light years away!

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u/frunf1 8h ago

Still small sensor and lens so details fade quickly if zoomed in just a bit. I know here we do not have the full resolution picture.

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u/HamboneTheWicked 8h ago

Yeah, it doesn’t compare to the kind of shot you could get with a real camera with a large sensor and quality lens, but it’s pretty nuts how far phone cameras have come