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![AJamesMcCarthy Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::2492039959.png) Andrew McCarthy [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/twitter/AJamesMcCarthy) on x 411.6K followers
Created: 2025-07-11 15:18:50 UTC

Here’s a time-lapse of one of my telescopes working, the mount it’s on precisely compensates for Earth’s rotation, allowing me to keep the stars stationary and take repeated long exposures. 

The deep sky images I’m working on take weeks or even months of doing this nightly

![](https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/1943691366032392192/img/P67ckTT1xf_ac208.jpg)

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