Credit & Copyright: Knut Lundmark
(Copyright: Lund Observatory)
Explanation:
This panorama
view of the sky
is really a drawing.
It was made in the 1950s under the supervision
of astronomer Knut Lundmark at the
Lund Observatory in Sweden.
To create the picture, draftsmen used
a mathematical distortion to map
the entire sky onto an oval shaped image with
the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy
along the center and the north galactic
pole at the top.
7,000 individual stars are shown as white dots, size
indicating brightness.
The "Milky Way" clouds, actually the combined
light of dim, unresolved stars in the
densely populated galactic plane, are
accurately painted on, interrupted by
dramatic dark dust lanes.
The overall effect is photographic in quality and represents the visible
sky.
Can you identify any familiar
landmarks or constellations?
For starters,
Orion
is at the right edge of the picture, just below the galactic plane
and the Large and
Small Magellanic Clouds are visible as
fuzzy patches in the lower right quadrant.
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