GigaGalaxy Zoom - An Amateur Telescope Look At The Milky Way
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 01:49
in Astronomy & Space
Stéphane Guisard, world-renowned astrophotographer and ESO engineer, has created a 340-million-pixel, 34 by 20-degree wide image from Paranal, the site of the Very Large Telescope, as it looks through an amateur telescope. Guisard is head of the optical engineering team at Paranal. To create this true-color mosaic of the Galactic Centre region, Guisard assembled about 1200 individual images, totalling more than 200 hours of exposure time, collected over 29 nights, during Guisard's free time, while working during the day at Paranal. read more