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Night sky from eye to telescope: Milky Way panaroma at 800 mega-pixel [swf]
- yu 17y ago* ESO GigaGalaxy Zoom http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/about.html http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/about.html * NASA Astronomy Picture of the day http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090926.html http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090926.html
- idm 17y agoReally cool, but why is the progress indicator right in the middle of the display!?
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- sotzing 17y agoi want to see well known constellations highlighted! maybe I'm just spoiled by Google SkyMap http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/planetarium-in-your-pocket.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/planetarium-in-your-p...
- zoba 17y agoDoes any one have any idea why there would be 14 "rays" coming off each of the bigger stars? Also, Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope is one of the best "Google Earth for outer space" things I've seen. http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/
- abecedarius 17y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike
- keltex 17y agoThis has taught me that if I want to show 800 million pixels then I need a CDN.
- gcheong 17y agoI get a permission error when I click the link.
- fname 17y agoMe too, but here's the APOD story from that day: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090926.html http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090926.html
- Andi 17y agoWhat about zooming in?
- pleiades 17y agoThis image of the sky is really a mosaic consisted of about 300 photographed fields each four times, what represents right by 1200 photos there. All were taken with a digital case Nikon D3 and its objective of 50 mm of focal diaphragmé in 5,6. Every image was exposed for 6 minutes, the visible movement of the sky, due to the rotation of the Earth, being corrected by a small equatorial frame, the axis of rotation of which, turning in 24 hours, in the inverse direction of the movement of the Earth, was strictly aligned on the axis of rotation of our planet. http://sergebrunier.com/gallerie/pleinciel/ http://sergebrunier.com/gallerie/pleinciel/