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Image itself in high resolution can be found here: https://orion2020v5b.spaceforeverybody.com/ https://orion2020v5b.spaceforeverybody.com/
by SXX 6y ago
Image itself in high resolution can be found here:
https://orion2020v5b.spaceforeverybody.com/ https://orion2020v5b.spaceforeverybody.com/
- iso1210 6y agoMy brain always thinks of Orion being orientated with Betelgeuse in the top left, it's really weird seeing it 'sideways'
- Taniwha 6y agoYou guys in the Northern hemisphere see it upside down, we call his belt "the pot"
- kzrdude 6y agoI was looking for galaxies, and then I turned on annotations. There's a ton of PGC annoations (galaxy catalogue) and it helps you see many of them; however many of them don't seem to be visible at all in the picture (there's too many of those PGC annotations?) Either way, very cool, that helps getting the eyes up for the galaxies scattered in the picture.
- ra 6y agoI've just zoomed in randomly on a couple of places and in each frame there's a handful of side on spiral galaxies... it's very cool - take another look?
- blackwater 6y agoCan I download the full scale image from somewhere?
- dylan604 6y agoHow big of a wall would that require to display at 1:1? I have a wall I'm willing to donate to the cause.
- Retric 6y agoAssuming a 50,000^2 pixel image at 600 dpi it’s just under 7 foot by 7 foot. You can likely play around with the DPI to fit most any wall, but I don’t know the aspect ratio.
- db48x 6y agoIt's 65k×35k pixels: https://space4everybody.com/about-the-image/ https://space4everybody.com/about-the-image/ There are some really nice printing processes for images of this magnitude, such as https://www.whitewall.com/us/metal-prints/aluminum-mounted-print https://www.whitewall.com/us/metal-prints/aluminum-mounted-p... and https://www.whitewall.com/us/acrylic-prints/masterprint https://www.whitewall.com/us/acrylic-prints/masterprint (the exact same processes are available from many printing companies; I have no idea how good this one is but it was easy to find). I have a print on this scale of the center of the Milky Way, and it's amazing: http://sguisard.astrosurf.com/Pagim/GC.html http://sguisard.astrosurf.com/Pagim/GC.html
- dylan604 6y ago>http://sguisard.astrosurf.com/Pagim/GC.html http://sguisard.astrosurf.com/Pagim/GC.html Welcome back 1999. Holy cow. Comments in good humor: 1) No preview image of what you are selling. 2) Several links are broken. One is a Flash based website!?!? Others are just no longer hosted. 3) Owww, my eyes!!! Also, Yay! Tables! I get it. If it's not broken, don't fix it. However, you are making it difficult for an interested person to make an informed purchase. I am looking exactly for this kind of art to fill up my astronomy room, so this has piqued my interest. It's not like I don't know what the galactic center looks like, but not buying something sight unseen
- db48x 6y agoYes, it's pretty unfortunate. It was a flash-based pan-and-zoom interface for the image, since it's obviously too big for your browser to handle all at once. Now that flash is gone he does need to redo the work to host it, but that is non−trivial. You can see a very small thumbnail at http://sguisard.astrosurf.com/mini/mini-Guisard_MilkyWay_4_8bit_dse.jpg http://sguisard.astrosurf.com/mini/mini-Guisard_MilkyWay_4_8.... I have the 70"×40" print on my wall right now, and it's worth it.
- iruoy 6y agoI am wondering about this too. Maybe not the full resolution, but I'd like to stretch this over 3 4K monitors.
- WizzleKake 6y agoTry something like this. https://ophir.alwaysdata.net/dezoomify/dezoomify.html https://ophir.alwaysdata.net/dezoomify/dezoomify.html
- kzrdude 6y agoI'd like to do that, but it would make sense if he reserves it so that he can sell prints
- anamexis 6y agoIt's funny – at such high fidelity, the glow from all of the distant stars and galaxies make it look like light pollution.
- crazygringo 6y agoGood observation. I assume that's because it's "overexposed" to bring out the nebulas etc.? Zooming in all the way, the pure "black" areas between stars also seem to have a fair bit of sensor noise that probably plays a part too.
- Tuna-Fish 6y agoThere are no pure black areas between stars, and that's not (just) sensor noise. It's not very wrong to say that every single pixel in that image holds at least one galaxy. If you collect enough light, you will find something interesting to look at.
- irrational 6y agohttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2015/04/24/when-hubble-stared-at-nothing-for-100-hours/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2015/04...
- crazygringo 6y agoAt some point the sensor noise swamps any signal, given your setup and processing. So from a philosophical view every pixel holds a galaxy, but from a practical point of view sensor noise obliterates it. I think it's reasonable to call the area in between visible stars "black" when received light is below the noise floor.
- autoexec 6y agoAnyone have a direct link to the full image?