check out THIS incredibly cool photo

[chris jordan]

This guy is an amateur astronomer who took nighttime 35mm photos from numerous p laces around the world and pieced them together using some very sophisticated ma thematical mapping to take lens distortion into account, and ended up with a hig h-resolution photograph of the milky way that looks like it was taken with a pan oramic camera from space. Click on the "virtual reality" version on his site, a nd you can zoom around in the image. VERY cool stuff.

http://home.arcor-online.de/axel.mellinger/

[Mike Mahoney]

Now that's something you don't see everyday. A lot of work went into producing this.

[Scott Walton]

Nice stuff Chris! Have him go to www.space.com and see if they will display them also.