New Photo of The Earth's Night Sky: Northern & Southern Hemispheres | NOIRLab
All-sky photo of the night sky
All-sky photo of the night sky: 88 star constellations marked (annotated)
This image represents the largest open-source, freely available all-sky photo of the night sky. With 40,000 pixels, this is arguably one of the best such images ever made. This colossal sky-scape was compiled using images taken by German astrophotographer Eckhard Slawik from the best and darkest locations around the globe: Germany (Waldenburg), Spain (Tenerife, La Palma), Namibia and Chile.
Free download of open source all-sky image:
Higher-resolution JPEG version (198 MB) here:
Highest resolution TIF version (1 GB) here:
The images were taken on film and each panel comprises two separate exposures, one with and one without a diffuser filter to allow the stars’ colors to shine through.
Image Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/E. Slawik/M. Zamani
Release Date: Dec. 23, 2024
Release Date: Dec. 23, 2024
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