Photographer Creates Incredible Night-Sky Image : Othor Games

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 1:50 pm

The amazing scope of this project has resulted in a fascinating image showing tens of millions of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. The zoom views and interactive views are pretty neat.
Also, there are some interesting media articles in the Latest News section. It took this guy a whole year to create this image:

http://skysurvey.org/

Nice image for a desktop. There is a download link there with up 3000x1500, and he will sell you some pretty huge high quality prints as well.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 2:53 pm

That's really awesome.

I love looking at stuff like that.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:31 pm

That is awesome!

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:03 am

With all of the apparently expensive equipment this guy lists you will notice at the very bottom, he lists:

"GIMP—final assembly, curve & saturation tweaks".

There you go. GIMPin' to the max.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:28 pm

Reminds me of the http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Hubble_ultra_deep_field_high_rez_edit1.jpg

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 1:03 pm

Loss of confidence: We are so small...
Gain of confidence: How ever could we be alone?

There you go. GIMPin' to the max.

Ha. Take that, Photoshop! ^_^

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 4:49 pm

Truly astonishing!

Hmm, maybe I need to update my night sky mod...

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:43 pm

http://brian.hoover.net.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Hubble_Ultra_Deep_Field.jpg

If you look at OP's picture and go "Woah", then the Hubble Deep Field should make your mind explode.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 2:04 pm

i wish we didn't have so much light pollution. sometimes at night you can't even see a single star around here, and i don't live in a big city

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:12 pm

http://brian.hoover.net.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Hubble_Ultra_Deep_Field.jpg

If you look at OP's picture and go "Woah", then the Hubble Deep Field should make your mind explode.

Old news, though.

What's remarkable about this compilation is the breadth of the shot, being a panoramic mosaic of such detail.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:45 am

Loss of confidence: We are so small...

And ours is only one galaxy out of ...billions? :blink:

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:21 pm

Very nice, especially the 360 degree rotation thing

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 4:00 am

It is important to remember that it is a panorama. The Interactive 360 feature on his site makes it easy to understand and visualize.
The Hubble image is astounding, although a very deep "slice" of space using of course the telescope.

Risinger states in the http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/seattle-photographer-captures-the-entire-night-sky-in-37440-exposures/2011/05/12/AFnuGIxG_story.html:
“This is not a scientifically useful image. This is for educational and artistic appreciation,”

Not bad for an "amateur", which actually means "for the love" of something. So it is a labor of love.

[edit]...and I hope he makes a lot of money from the prints he's offering...BTW.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:00 pm

Is there a full map with constellations outlined?

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:39 pm

Is there a full map with constellations outlined?

http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html...the constellations are outlined.

I think I know what you meant...no...only the 360 Interactive...that I can find.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:18 pm

Whoa. There's no way we're alone out there.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:14 pm

http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html...the constellations are outlined.

I think I know what you meant...no...only the 360 Interactive...that I can find.

Looks wonderful. Makes you amzaed even more by the vastness of the stars.

Now to plot my wicca curse on the scaley kitten people of Sigma-6.

:P

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:46 pm

Looks wonderful. Makes you amzaed even more by the vastness of the stars.

Now to plot my wicca curse on the scaley kitten people of Sigma-6.

:P

You might try saying "Betelgeuse" three times...Maybe not Wiccan, but I've heard that can be pretty effective...

I just noticed that in the Interactive view, he has some Wikipedia Links you can click on for the various Nebula clusters and other features which makes it even more interesting.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:13 pm

You might try saying "Betelgeuse" three times...Maybe not Wiccan, but I've heard that can be pretty effective...

I just noticed that in the Interactive view, he has Wikipedia Links you can click on for the various Nebula clusters and other features which makes it even more interesting.

I'll check it out as soon as I'm done playing around with the scroll map.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 3:34 pm

Looks wonderful. Makes you amzaed even more by the vastness of the stars.

Now to plot my wicca curse on the scaley kitten people of Sigma-6.

:P

You leave my people alone. :biggrin:

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 4:47 pm

http://brian.hoover.net.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Hubble_Ultra_Deep_Field.jpg

If you look at OP's picture and go "Woah", then the Hubble Deep Field should make your mind explode.

I prefer the one the OP posted :shrug:

Anyway really awesome

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:31 am

It took this guy a whole year to create this image:

http://skysurvey.org/

I'd like to do something that intensive.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:25 pm

Love stuff like this, time to drift into deep though on how massively expansive the universe is and try to wrap my mind around that fact.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:48 pm

I prefer the one the OP posted :shrug:

Anyway really awesome

The hubble deep field was taken by focusing on just on small patch of sky for a few weeks.
If you take the OPs pic, then the deep field probably represents what would happen if you chose a single black pixel and continued to zoom in more and more and more.
There are no individual stars visible, every point of light in the Deep Field represents an entire galaxy.

Thousands and thousands of galaxies, in every single patch of seemingly empty sky.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:59 am

Thousands and thousands of galaxies, in every single patch of seemingly empty sky.

Well I thought it was much cooler. Like staring into the depths of the universe. So many different shapes and sizes!