Starship Asterisk*

Thanks Chris for the precise and useful information, and the accompanying explanation. Much appreciated. This makes the APOD pictures even more remarkable.
Adrian

Last week’ s lovely Umbrella N GC4651 galaxy shown on APOD: is there a place in space where, if a human were viewing, presumably form a spaceship, they would see what is seen in this image , or is this image in part determined by the optics etc of telescopes and their capacity to capture light with ...