How do people take photos of galaxies with 50 hours of exposure? How is it possible to aim at the same spot while earth is doing more that 2 rotations in that time?

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How do people take photos of galaxies with 50 hours of exposure? How is it possible to aim at the same spot while earth is doing more that 2 rotations in that time?

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To slightly clarify what others said, because the distances between us and those galaxies involved are so huge, the difficulties in aligning shots spread 2-3 days apart is arguably less difficult than aligning two images taken 2-3 hours apart.

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