HTTP:: New Panorama of the Milky Way Created
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Central Michigan University professor Axel Mellinger has recently compiled a new groundbreaking image of the night sky, with the Milky Way at its center, by stitching up more than 3,000 individual photographs. The high-resolution panoramic view, presented in an interactive manner here, can be used by professional and amateur astronomers alike, and shows known features of our galaxies in great detail. The creation process for the new image is described in the November issue of the respected journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. “This panorama image shows stars 1,000 times fainter than the human eye can see, as well as hundreds of galaxies, star clusters and nebulae,†Mellinger reveals, adding that his panorama is fitted for both scientific and educational purposes. He says that the real work on the project started just after the thousands of pictures he needed were collected, from dark-sky locations in South Africa, Texas and Michigan. Mellin!
ger traveled more than 26,000 miles in order to capture all the images he needed for a complete panorama. “Due to artificial light pollution, natural air glow, as well as sunlight scattered by dust in our solar system, it is virtually impossible to take a wide-field astronomical photograph that has a perfectly uniform background,...
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