chris jordan
2-Jan-2002, 17:02
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/
http://home.arcor-online.de/axel.mellinger/