Interactive Panoramic Entire Sky Survey

[Thunder Chicken]

This might be better posted in the Astronomy thread, but I am putting it here just to spread the pure awesomeness.

This is an interactive panorama of a complete sky image (north and south hemispheres, the cosmos as seen from the viewpoint of Earth). Here is the main page:

http://skysurvey.org/

And here is the interactive panorama:

http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html

:thumbup:

 

[Sunhillow]

Thank you for this link! Looks great

 

[george7378]

That's great - thanks! I love the paragraph about how it was made:

On a journey that covered 45,000 miles by air and 15,000 by land—the equivalent of nearly 2½ passes around the equator—I toured much of the American west and twice visited the western Cape of South Africa.

That must be the life

 

[agentgonzo]

This would be awesome if someone can make a background sky image for orbiter out of it