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Markcb750

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360 deg interactive sky photograph.
« on: April 30, 2011, 03:38:12 AM »
This is work by Nick Risinger, it is one of the neatest things I have found on the net.

Virtually the entire sky visible through a complete year from both the northern and southern hemispheres.   The band across the center is the Milky Way our Galaxy.

The view of the Large & Small Magellanic clouds ( small companion galaxies) is great!

If you click on the links there are pan & zoom capabilities to see detail.


He stitched this together from thousands of photographs taken around the world.

Great work, some people just have crazy skills.






http://media.skysurvey.org/openzoom.html


http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html
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Re: 360 deg interactive sky photograph.
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2011, 10:58:52 AM »
That is so cool.  I think that must be Andromeda, but Cassiopia or other constellations don't stand out quite as well from the other billions of points of light. At least not like watching  a clear night sky.
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Re: 360 deg interactive sky photograph.
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2011, 05:08:51 PM »
Quote from: tree fiddy of industry on April 30, 2011, 10:58:52 AM
That is so cool.  I think that must be Andromeda, but Cassiopia or other constellations don't stand out quite as well from the other billions of points of light. At least not like watching  a clear night sky.

I rewrote my post, hopefully this will make it clearer what you are looking at.

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Re: 360 deg interactive sky photograph.
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2011, 06:56:55 PM »
I know a fair bit of constellations, perhaps enough to navigate by on a clear night. I would just assume that the spiral galaxy would be Andromeda, the furthest thing you can see with the naked eye. But then again,  none of this is done with a naked eye so more spiral galaxies might appear visible here.

I agreee, it's awesome.Knowing the little you explained how it was done, I think I would most accurately call it an digital image mosaic if anything.
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Re: 360 deg interactive sky photograph.
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2011, 01:54:15 AM »
If you click on the lower link and let it load you will find an icon on the left end of the navigation tools that will overlay the constellations.

He has the great Nebula in Andromeda there just below the plane of the Milky Way. 

Keep an eye on it:  in 4,500,000,000 years it is going to collide with the Milky Way!
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Re: 360 deg interactive sky photograph.
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2011, 06:13:47 AM »
that is awesome to look at
kinda makes you feel small
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Re: 360 deg interactive sky photograph.
« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2011, 03:23:00 PM »
We have a solution to the collision in 4.5 billion years!

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2233
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