Mapa do céu estrelado / Starry Sky Map

uau, uau uau!!!!!
uma brutal fotografia do céu estrelado com as constelações e uma possibilidade de zoom bem interessante..

http://skysurvey.org/
está disponível um interactivo de 360º.

e por curiosidade, o equipamento utilizado.

"For those interested in the specifics and tools used to make the survey, a list follows.
Hardware:
Cameras—Finger Lakes ML-8300 monochrome
Lenses—Zeiss Sonnar 85mm f2.8
Filters—Astronomik LRGB, Astrodon Ha
Mount—Takahashi EM-11 Temma 2 w/ custom armature
Generator—Yamaha EF1000iS for USA trips
Laptop—Intel Core i7-820QM running Linux Fedora, 8GB RAM w/ 4TB external storage

Software:
MaximDL—mount control, image capture, and creation of calibration frames (dark, bias, flat)
IRAF—many scripted tasks such as up-scaling, registration, saturated pixel replacements with scaled exposures, stacking, and median background modeling
SExtractor—building each frames list of objects
SCAMP—cross referencing to create position and distortion headers
Swarp—reprojection and stitching of frames
PixInsight—generate final LRGBHa color composite, midtones transfer function, noise reduction
GIMP—final assembly, curve & saturation tweaks"