Can I buy a large print of this somewhere?
If you can get this printed on metal, it would look amazing. My wife is IT for an astronomy dept and they have metal prints all over the place that are just stunning!
Milky Way, 12 years, 1250 hours of exposures and 125 x 22 degrees of sky
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#52Wow amazing work! The scale of this project reminds me of another photographer's five year project of creating a 2.5 gigapixel photo of Orion: https://orion2020v5b.spaceforeverybody.com/
Looking at these pictures, I've began to ponder how much of an influence the night sky has been in religion and mythology throughout the millennia.
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#53Re: Milky Way, 12 years, 1250 hours of exposures and 125 x 22 degrees of sky
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would have been a much better species? Bright lights are a very recent part of our species’ history. It’s not like humanity had a reputation for being particularly civilized before the invention of electric light.
Depends on what you mean by "civilized", but I take your point. I do wonder, however, if there isn't a correlation between the increase of light pollution and the trend away from reverence for gods. In other words, does the ability to see the grandeur of the heavens on a daily basis influence us to believe in greater beings?
On a side note: there is a great documentary on light pollution called “Saving the Dark” (it's on Youtube). This really has a big impact on us and the environment.
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#55Wow amazing work! The scale of this project reminds me of another photographer's five year project of creating a 2.5 gigapixel photo of Orion: https://orion2020v5b.spaceforeverybody.com/
Looking at these pictures, I've began to ponder how much of an influence the night sky has been in religion and mythology throughout the millennia.
And in the modern world, we are blind to it because of light pollution. It's sad. One of the most amazing experiences ever, a truly dark, clear sky at night, is only accessible if you travel off-continent.
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#56It looks a little grainy / too much sharpening to my eye. Natural images tend have more blended features instead of looking like sand.
It has a distinctly HDR-y look to it but no meaningful sharpening. I think the grain is just a fruit of having noisier sensors back in 2009
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have the same question! Related question: If someone wanted to print something like this for themselves, how would they go about it? Say, I have an image or photo and I wanted to make a high quality print suitable for framing and hanging on, say, my office wall. Is this an 'Ask HN' question?
Do you want the cheapest way to do it or the highest quality, or something in between? If you have an image that fits in less than 20x30", CostCo or another mass printing service can do it for $10. They won't do any adjustment, so the colors may be off a little. They'll print on canvas to 30x40" for $120. That's only 150dpi; it doesn't look great up close, but is pretty good from 3+ feet away. Again, colors are what…
More like the highest quality, but probably price sensitive which means 'somewhere in between.' I've thought about taking a test image to Costco to see how it comes out on metal, but figured that there might be higher quality options. Thanks for your examples, looking to see what others post.
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#58> My observatory is located in the very center of the city Oulu in Finland. Due to massive Light Pollution I mainly do ... Well I guess most of us live in filthy cesspools of light. Seriously I wonder what humanity misses out on. I think we would have been a much better species if only we could see our place in the universe every night.
There was this one time where in some city in the US, cannot remember which, there was a city wide power outage, and some people were freaking out because they've never seen a non-polluted sky before.
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#59Wow amazing work! The scale of this project reminds me of another photographer's five year project of creating a 2.5 gigapixel photo of Orion: https://orion2020v5b.spaceforeverybody.com/
Looking at these pictures, I've began to ponder how much of an influence the night sky has been in religion and mythology throughout the millennia.
The path to modern astronomy went like this: cultures that lasted a long time (Multiple hundreds of years) typically developed observatories that defined the yearly calendar as well as dates of religious observances. Many times, their observations got very accurate and they could predict various things, although surprising stuff still happened. Eventually, civilizations lasted through multiple solar eclipse cycles and noticed they were periodic (keeping great records for hundreds of years and maintaing a class of people who can work with them is nontrivial). This eventually led to people being able to predict nearly all planet's motions with surprising accuracy (see the antikythera mechanism).
So I think it's had a huge influence ,and one that ultimately led to a scientific understanding of the cosmos. At this point, JPL can predict the location of nearly every major solar object for decades into the future and the main challenege is determining whether object movement is truly chaotic.
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#60Wow amazing work! The scale of this project reminds me of another photographer's five year project of creating a 2.5 gigapixel photo of Orion: https://orion2020v5b.spaceforeverybody.com/
Something about that Orion photo in particular makes it seem beyond belief that there is not other life around other stars in the galaxy.