oh my, this is something special...

[tingting44]

http://astro.vm.rub.de/

[Mr Spock]

That is some image!

[wasteland]

It takes an awful long time to load properly once you zoom in to a certain spot.

Is this OIII? It looks like a narrowband photo.

[tingting44]

It takes an awful long time to load properly once you zoom in to a certain spot.

Is this OIII? It looks like a narrowband photo.

yes it might take a while to load up by the size of it lol

http://www.iflscience.com/space/46-billion-pixel-view-milky-way-largest-space-image-ever-created

[wasteland]

It's basically just the galaxy center region and its immediate surrounding. I wouldn't have minded a proper crazy high resolution picture of the Cygnus region!

Still, this is extremely impressive. It can almost quench my thirst for the stars in these interminable weeks away from home

[wasteland]

Edit: I just found out it goes on through the other region of the galactic plane! It failed to load them altogether before! Ok, this is now officially priceless.