Photographer Spends 12 Years, 1250 Hours, Exposing Photo of Milky Way

[D'z Nutz]

Jesus, this is incredible!



Bigger version:
https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads...egreesLONG.jpg



https://petapixel.com/2021/03/16/pho...-of-milky-way/

Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsavainio has released a Milky Way photo that took him nearly 12 years to create. The 1.7-gigapixel image has a cumulative exposure time of 1,250 hours.

Metsavainio began shooting for the project back in 2009. For the next 12 years, he focused on different areas and objects in the Milky Way, shooting stitched mosaics of them as individual artworks. To complete the ultra-high-resolution view of the Milky Way as a whole, Metsavainio then set out to fill in the gaps that weren’t covered by his original artworks.

“I think this is a first image ever showing the Milky Way in this resolution and depth at all three color channels (H-a, S-II, and O-III),” Metsavainio tells PetaPixel.

The photo is 100,000 pixels wide and comprises 234 individual panels stitched together.

[Mitsu3000gt]

That's crazy. I have seen these before on reddit with multi-hour exposures but nowhere near 1,250 hours.

[ExtraSlow]

mother of god.

[rx7boi]

There's a joke in there about the size of someone's mom but I'm too in awe of our cosmos right now.

[TomcoPDR]

Impressive. Wonder what the NFT value would be

[revelations]

Those fucking finns again .... oh wait.

But wow, I cant even begin to properly appreciate something like this as a non-astronomer.

[Kloubek]

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Those fucking finns again .... oh wait.

But wow, I cant even begin to properly appreciate something like this as a non-astronomer.

All those planets. And according to the religious: No other life.

[revelations]

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All those planets. And according to the religious: No other life.

haha, humans are the only special ones apparently .... yea right

[ExtraSlow]

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All those planets. And according to the religious: No other life.

Correction, just life for us to eat.

[AndyL]

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Correction, just life for us to eat.

PETA - People Eating Tasty Aliens!

[D'z Nutz]

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Those fucking finns again .... oh wait.

But wow, I cant even begin to properly appreciate something like this as a non-astronomer.

To put the mosaic into perspective, the bigger version of the image has a moon for scale (from our point of view) in the lower left.

Here's how many images it took to put the whole mosaic together, and each image would have taken a several hours each, most photographed at least 3 times with different filters to bring out colours not normally visible. It wouldn't surprise me if many of the mini images themselves were also composites.