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I tried to zoom in, and it only went a few clicks.. I was like cool. Then I started zooming out and out and out. The scale is just insane.. Im sure if we had a

I tried to zoom in, and it only went a few clicks.. I was like cool. Then I started zooming out and out and out. The scale is just insane.. Im sure if we had a better camera and a medium to store the pixels, it would be like a Mandelbrot basically.

mattkevan 6y ago
Perhaps it should have a tiny tiny marker with the legend, ‘You are here’.
- 01acheru 6y ago
  Where would you place that marker? We're behind the camera :P
- h2odragon 6y ago
  it does. it covers the whole planet.
sixstringtheory 6y ago
Agreed, I was a bit confused at first! Also, I found it helpful to turn on constellation overlays to get a sense for how much of the night sky is covered.
DiogenesKynikos 6y ago
The max zoom of the website is pretty much the maximum resolution seen by the telescope. You can tell because you can see the point-spread functions of the stars (i.e., they look like blobs) at the maximum zoom. In order to get better resolution, you need to put your telescope at a better site (on a higher, drier mountain with a more laminar airflow; or in space), or you need adaptive optics (which limits your field of view, making it unsuited to large surveys of the sky like this).