Largest Ever True Color Photo of the Night Sky

[Guest BigTfromNotts]

Amateur Photographer Shoots Largest Ever True Color Photo of the Night Sky

What you see above is the largest true-color photograph of the night sky ever created, shot by 28-year-old amateur astrophotographer Nick Risinger using six astronomical cameras. It’s not just the view of the sky from one location, but is instead a 360-panoramic view of the sky taken by trekking 60,000 miles across the western United States and South Africa starting in March 2010. The final image is composed of 37,000 separate photographs. Check out the massive zoomable high-definition version of the photo here: http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html

A trukly magnificent image.

Cheers

Tony

[Guest Eddy]

Wow the zoomable one is just stunning.

[Craig]

Incredible!

[Mark Harper.]

Wow, lucky guy....

[Doc]

Now that's dedication.

[Brantuk]

Fabulous pic - I've seen it before but didn't realise it was zoomable - the nadr and sadr region is very interesting (as is the rest of it lol)

[Rusty Strings]

Wow, you could lose yourself in that for a while

[Daz Type-R]

O.M.G

[BAZ]

Staggering.

[Guest Fluke]

Brilliant and bookmarked.

Defo one to go back and have a look at time & time again!

[Celeste]

That's just awesome love it

[Guest wisewoman]

Wow that's amazing especially the interactive version that shows you where all the constealltions etc are!

Well done that man!

Melissa

[glider]

Just zoomed in on M42 and Horse Head, amazing.