Largest true-color photograph of the night sky ever
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Largest true-color photograph of the night sky ever
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#2From the author:
http://skysurvey.org/blog/2011/2/17/for-all-the-nights-stars
I was surprised to find that this wasn't a compilation of Sloan images, or one of the larger sky survey collaborations. This appears to be a one-person project.
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#3iPad / iPhone version not available? Come on.
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#4Is there a reason why it appears more populated and dense in the middle as opposed to the upper or lower regions? Is that the plane of our galaxy, or something to do with the light?
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#5Is there a reason why it appears more populated and dense in the middle as opposed to the upper or lower regions? Is that the plane of our galaxy, or something to do with the light?
Yes, it's the plane of our galaxy. If you click show constellations and objects, you can see where we are in the spiral, bottom left.
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#6This looks amazing. I wish the app was available to us foreigners as well.
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#7Is there a reason why it appears more populated and dense in the middle as opposed to the upper or lower regions? Is that the plane of our galaxy, or something to do with the light?
Yes, it's the plane of our galaxy. If you click show constellations and objects, you can see where we are in the spiral, bottom left.
Interesting, I haven't seen this clustering from looking at the sky before - is it because this is more sensitive than the naked eye?
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#8I guess because the title here says "photograph" it didn't occur to me until the second visit that I could click and drag to look around. When I did though I got hit with the "Oh wow. That's incredible." sensation.
I love this.
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#9iPad / iPhone version not available? Come on.
I know, I'm sick of websites that do things like this.
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#10No WP/Android version => failure.