This Will Astound You . . . Composite Picture Of The Entire Night Sky!

[Smee]

Nick Risinger has always gazed up at the sky. But last year the amateur astronomer and photographer quit his day job as a Seattle marketing director and lugged six synchronized cameras about 60,000 miles to capture an image of the entire night sky.

Article here: http://www.nola.com/weather/index.ssf/2011/05/the_night_sky_in_37440_exposur.html

Hosting Site: http://skysurvey.org/

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

PSSsstt: You really must zoom in on this picture!

 

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[JABBERWOCKY]

VERY COOL!!.....makes me wish we could just keep zooming in!

 

[Sky Pilot]

Great post and cool link, Smee!


Sky Pilot

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

Smee *****

Don Jose de La Mancha

 

[Smee]

. . . I sure hope that doesn't mean I'm being "mooned" by 5 folks

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

Nah smee, it is just that I had a momentary bit of homsickness , nostalgia in seeing my home in the upper right at full magnification . Superman came from the one just to the left.

Don Jose de La Mancha

 

[allen]

wow, that is so cool !

 

[ashleen]

Cool! Thanks Smee

 

[Daedalus]

Now that is awesome to see !
Thanks for the post .

 

[Smee]

Cool! Thanks Smee

Better than my animated spider avatar I used to have?

 

[21stTNCav]

Very Cool!!

 

[ashleen]

Better than my animated spider avatar I used to have?

waaaaaaaaay I'm still seeing those creepy lookin things

 

[TheHarleyMan2]

If you zoom in and look almost to the center on the right. You can see an aliens head, eyes, mouth, and face unless it is Homer Simpson!