More stars then grains of sand on the entire planet

Thread: More stars than grains of sand on the entire planet

Check out this pic - awesome.
[link to www.katu.com]

To capture billions of stars, it takes some pretty impressive numbers. The photo isn't just one click -- it's made up of 37 ,000 photos and has a resolution of 5000 megapixels.

To get the rich colors, his shutters had to stay open for seven minutes.

"As anybody has shot with their point-and-shoot would know, stars are almost impossible to capture," he said. "It was a lot of, you know, sitting out in the cold out under the stars waiting."

After that, it took months to piece together the thousands of pictures into the largest true-color sky survey. You can see the photo and even interact and zoom in on particular stars at his website, skysurvey.org



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