For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and right side of the image.
I looked at one of the enlarged versions on the web site and noticed that the background was peppered with numerous small dots. I assume that some might be dim and distant stars in our own Milky Way. Others might simply be very distant galaxies that only show up as dots in the picture.
My question is: How many of such tiny dots have ever received any attention by mankind? Is there information collected, cataloged, or recorded for every faint dot in the picture?
Humans couldn't do this. But is there a way looking up, for example, the brightness or red shift of any of these dots? Or is it possible that I am the only person to ever pay any attention to the very small faint dot I spotted in that picture?
Magnificent.
The moon was amazing here, tonight - the biggest, brightest first quarter I’ve ever seen.