This trippy photo took six hours to create

Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 7:21 AM - It took six hours and 620 separate photographs to create this one stunning image of the Celestial North Pole. Here's how Polish photographer Bartosz Wojczyński pulled it off.

In a post on Reddit, Wojczyński said he simply pointed his camera at the northern sky and continuously shot 35-second exposures from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., capturing a total of 620 images in all. He then stacked the individual photos in Photoshop and did some light editing to produce the final incredible image. The photograph clearly shows the Celestial North Pole, the point around which all the stars visible in the Northern hemisphere rotate. (The North Star, also called Polaris, is located almost exactly at this point in the sky.)

Of course, it helps that Wojczyński did his shooting at the Teide Observatory, a major astronomical observatory located on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, giving him a clear, unobstructed view of the night sky. Here is one of the single frames he captured during the six hours:

And here you can watch a timelapse created using the same frames.

For the photography gearheads out there, Wojczyński used a Nikon D5100 with a Samyang 10 mm lens at f/4.8 and ISO 1600.

Photos republished with permission from Bartosz Wojczyński.