3000 Images Form Panoramic Portrait of the Milky Way

Osiris · 11-01-2009, 07:54 PM

3000 Images Form Panoramic Portrait of the Milky Way

Talk about a labor of love. Axel Mellinger of Central Michigan University spent 22 months and traveled over 26,000 miles to get the 3,000 shots used to make this incredible panorama of the Milky Way. Thanks to AceGoober for sending it in!

Mellinger describes the image-making process in the November issue of the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The result is an image of our home galaxy that no star-gazer could ever see from a single spot on earth. Mellinger plans to make the giant 648 megapixel image available to planetariums around the world.

95BlackGA · 11-02-2009, 12:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Osiris

3000 Images Form Panoramic Portrait of the Milky Way

Talk about a labor of love. Axel Mellinger of Central Michigan University spent 22 months and traveled over 26,000 miles to get the 3,000 shots used to make this incredible panorama of the Milky Way. Thanks to AceGoober for sending it in!

Mellinger describes the image-making process in the November issue of the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The result is an image of our home galaxy that no star-gazer could ever see from a single spot on earth. Mellinger plans to make the giant 648 megapixel image available to planetariums around the world.

I was personally hoping to see the full image, which would have been amazing. I hope this does get uploaded somewhere (the full 648MP image), that way we can look at it in our own time. How big would a 648MP image file be?

zedman3d · 11-02-2009, 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by 95BlackGA

I was personally hoping to see the full image, which would have been amazing. I hope this does get uploaded somewhere (the full 648MP image), that way we can look at it in our own time. How big would a 648MP image file be?

Depends on aspect ratio, but around 32200 x 20128. File size wise i dunno.