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Topic: Photographer Nick Risinger's Photopic Sky Survey
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Philip Member Posts: 5952 From: Brussels, Belgium Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 05-11-2011 01:30 PM
Check it out: Nick Risinger took the complete Milky Way (our galaxy) in one photo. The Photopic Sky Survey is a 5,000 megapixel photograph of the entire night sky stitched together from 37,440 exposures. Large in size and scope, it portrays a world far beyond the one beneath our feet and reveals our familiar Milky Way with unfamiliar clarity. When we look upon this image, we are in fact peering back in time, as much of the light—having traveled such vast distances—predates civilization itself.Seen at a depth thousands of times more faint than the dimmest visible star, tens of millions of other suns appear, still perhaps only a hundredth of one percent thought to exist in our galaxy alone. Our Milky Way galaxy is the dominant feature, its dusty arms sweeping through the frame, punctuated by red clouds of glowing hydrogen. To the lower right are our nearest neighbors, each small galaxies themselves with their own hundreds of millions of stars. |
Philip Member Posts: 5952 From: Brussels, Belgium Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 06-16-2011 09:55 AM
Also check Milky Way, Night Time Lapse.You don't need to be an amateur astronomer to enjoy the beauty of it all. |
Philip Member Posts: 5952 From: Brussels, Belgium Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 12-13-2012 10:24 AM
I know some cS forum members are keen amateur astronomers... so I would like to point out the 12/12/12 APOD. |
nasamad Member Posts: 2121 From: Essex, UK Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 12-13-2012 12:35 PM
I have the Sky Survey app on our iPad at home, its worth every single penny, absolutely amazing to use. | |
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