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10/02/2009 06:20:01 AM · #1
You may enjoy this Photo It does take a bit of time to load and when you use the zoom feature give it a little time to refocus. Details are above the photo.
10/02/2009 06:27:02 AM · #2
Thats pretty cool, Thank You..
10/02/2009 08:28:52 AM · #3
Wow. Thats amazing
10/02/2009 08:31:15 AM · #4
Thanks for the link - very cool stuff. My son spent about 30 minutes looking at this image this morning before school - he was mesmorized.
10/02/2009 09:18:56 AM · #5
so... how can we figure out which of those stars have planets around them with some form of life...

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10/02/2009 09:37:01 AM · #6
What an AWESOME find...thanks for sharing!

It's better then looking through these...



and 1 Billion times better then my attempt of photographing basically the same area...



Ya'll should check out that link Bugzeye found for us!
10/02/2009 01:43:53 PM · #7
Look way down in the lower left hand corner. There is someone or something waving at the camera!!!!!!!!
10/02/2009 04:56:15 PM · #8
Very cool, but it's not a photo. It's a mosaic made from 1200 separate photos.
10/07/2009 03:38:22 PM · #9
Amazing!!!
It always gives me a feeling how tiny we are in this universe. :)


10/07/2009 04:09:53 PM · #10
That would look great here on DPC with our massive 640 pixel allowance :)
10/07/2009 04:18:52 PM · #11
Glad all of you enjoy my work! I spent some time on that.... Seriously, AWESOME photo. Gives you something to live up to.
10/07/2009 06:11:36 PM · #12
Originally posted by Mick:

Very cool, but it's not a photo. It's a mosaic made from 1200 separate photos.

I think that 90% of people here would still agree it's a "photo"...
10/07/2009 06:27:18 PM · #13
Originally posted by hanserik:

so... how can we figure out which of those stars have planets around them with some for of life...


they are already working on it
Kepler mission

They have found that most stars have planets orbiting them. We have only been able to accurately pick up traces of the largest ones closest to the stars, which are very large and sometimes orbit their star in less than a day (very fast and hot). I think there have been something like 380 extrasolar system planets discovered in the last 10 years. I honestly don't think that there is any way that we are the only form of life in our universe, let alone our galaxy.

Message edited by author 2009-10-07 18:27:35.
10/07/2009 06:43:56 PM · #14
Originally posted by Blue Moon:

I honestly don't think that there is any way that we are the only form of life in our universe, let alone our galaxy.


You got that backwards, I think: try "in our galaxy, let alone the universe" — the universe being comprised of countless galaxies, of course.

(exit pedant-mode now)

R.
10/07/2009 08:40:47 PM · #15
Originally posted by george917:

Originally posted by Mick:

Very cool, but it's not a photo. It's a mosaic made from 1200 separate photos.

I think that 90% of people here would still agree it's a "photo"...

Nonsense. You couldn't get 90% of the people here to agree that the sky is blue. Especially when many of them are trying to win ribbons by making their skies purple. :)

And even if you could get them all to agree, it wouldn't make them right.

10/07/2009 10:48:45 PM · #16
I know this is a stitched pano shot, However if you were to print the file to paper it would indeed be a photograph. No sense getting technical about it.

Originally posted by Mick:

Originally posted by george917:

Originally posted by Mick:

Very cool, but it's not a photo. It's a mosaic made from 1200 separate photos.

I think that 90% of people here would still agree it's a "photo"...

Nonsense. You couldn't get 90% of the people here to agree that the sky is blue. Especially when many of them are trying to win ribbons by making their skies purple. :)

And even if you could get them all to agree, it wouldn't make them right.
10/08/2009 03:11:12 AM · #17
Originally posted by Bugzeye:

I know this is a stitched pano shot, However if you were to print the file to paper it would indeed be a photograph.

No, it would be a print of a digital composite image (if you can find something to print it with).

Originally posted by Bugzeye:

No sense getting technical about it.

Why not simply call it what it is, a gigapixel mosaic image? Calling it a photograph is misleading because it implies the use of a gigapixel camera, which is not true.

A photograph is made with a camera. A composite image is made with software.

BTW, there are other images out there that are much larger than this one. And if you do some research you will find that no one involved in making these large images attempts to pass them off as "photographs".

However, if you want to call it a photo, have at it. :)


10/08/2009 03:30:49 AM · #18
This particular one is refered to as a Gigapan Stitch, I have made several of these large images myself. When it is presented as a whole it is looked at as a picture. And yes I pass them off as photographs. You can see one of mine in the image comment box below this photo If everyone who clicks the link reads the info above the photo Gigapan Picture which I mentioned in first post, They will know exactly what it is. So I am not really misleading anyone.

Originally posted by Mick:

Originally posted by Bugzeye:

I know this is a stitched pano shot, However if you were to print the file to paper it would indeed be a photograph.

No, it would be a print of a digital composite image (if you can find something to print it with).

Originally posted by Bugzeye:

No sense getting technical about it.

Why not simply call it what it is, a gigapixel mosaic image? Calling it a photograph is misleading because it implies the use of a gigapixel camera, which is not true.

A photograph is made with a camera. A composite image is made with software.

BTW, there are other images out there that are much larger than this one. And if you do some research you will find that no one involved in making these large images attempts to pass them off as "photographs".

However, if you want to call it a photo, have at it. :)


Message edited by author 2009-10-08 04:08:22.
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