Physicist Makes New High-resolution Panorama Of Milky Way

Sciens Daily ^ | Axel Mellinger

[Frenchtown Dan]

Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at Central Michigan University, describes the process of making the panorama in the November issue of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

[Frenchtown Dan]

Can't seem to copy the picture, but there's one in the link

[wastedyears]

I wish they would’ve made the picture larger. I’d use it as my desktop background.

[concentric circles]

Axel Mellinger's web page

[Frenchtown Dan]

If you can get it into Powerpoint or some other software, you can probably blow it up a bit without too much distortion.

[Frenchtown Dan]

Awesome !!!

Thanks. I live way way over there...

[SunkenCiv]

There's also one of Milky Way Dark. ;')

· join · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post new topic · subscribe ·

Google news searches: exoplanet · exosolar · extrasolar ·

[Daffynition]

Vary cool

Clickable:The new Milky Way panorama in Hammer-Aitoff projection. Click on the image to see a zoomable Mercator projection.

[sten]

i can almost see my house from here

[Frenchtown Dan]

Really makes you feel small doesn’t it?

On clear nights we can see the Milkey way from where I live in western Jersey. Just a few miles to the east, there is so much light pollution, you can hardly see stars.

I remember camping in north western Quebec in the 60’s when I was a young man, I was amazed at how clear it could be seen. I also saw the Northern Lights during the same trip.
I had the sensation for the first time of being on on a starship.

[JoeProBono]

Ceenter>

[Frenchtown Dan]

Ha, Ha!
I gotta learn this photo shop stuff.