Poster The Milky Way

The Milky Way - a high resolution A0 large format

A complete panorama of the heavens with the Milky Way in the center - this view shows a 360 ° panoramic view of Axel Mellinger. Professor of physics and astro-photographer toured for two years before traveling to South Africa, Texas and Michigan to accommodate the more than 3,000 individual images for it. The photographs created with an SBIG STL-11000 CCD camera and a 50mm lens were processed on a computer, equalized and assembled into a seamless mosaic image. A particularly tricky problem was different from recording to recording sky background. 10 and 11 from the 1970s to eliminate stray light disturbing earthly achieved only through the use of image data of a sky survey of the space probes Pioneer.

To map the celestial sphere on the plane poster surface, a projection was chosen type Kavrayskiy VII that our galaxy - shows with dark clouds, star clusters, emission and reflection nebulae such as the viewer would look at the Milky Way from outside edge position - while minimizing the inevitable distortions : This dream can always hang on the wall now. Posters in all relevant visible nebulae, star clusters and galaxies and the most important constellations are for identification besides all 110 Messier objects named.