Deadvlei tree - Gigalaxy M57 Michael was working mostly alone

Michael was working mostly alone

Chapter two: The challenge of stitching the images

This is why Michael had to run a process called normalization: adjusting the images so that they all look as identical as possible in terms of color and brightness

star-forming spiral galaxy NGC 2936

Anville crater and surroundings seen from Apollo 11

Deadvlei tree - Gigalaxy M57 Michael was working mostly aloneThere are places in the world that each of us has seen inphotographs before. One of those places is Deadvlei in Namibia Naukluft National Park in Namibia. An iconic oasis, dried up for several hundred years, cut of from the water source by sand in the middle of the highest dunes in the world. On the flat, dry lake remained some dried branches of trees of the species Vachellia erioloba, also known as camel thorn, giraffe thorn or camel doring, which