Night Sky (photographed)

Nick Risinger is an astronomer who went nuts and decided to photograph ~all~ of the night's sky. (yea.. with no clouds) Well the end result is very cool, with a fantastic webpage that lets you pan and zoom of his huge mosaic photograph.

Notes from his website skysurvey.org:

The Photopic Sky Survey is a 5,000 megapixel photograph of the entire night sky stitched together from 37,440 exposures.

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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. Through it I was able to enjoy not only the wonders of the natural world but also the company of my retired father whom I was able to convince had nothing better to do