This stunning 360 ° panorama is the night by the United States astronomical photographer Nike·leisige synthesis using 37,000 pictures.
Lei Sige and his brother with the 6 professional astronomical camera composed of a set of equipment into the Nevada desert, started the project
Beijing, April 29 , This stunning 360 ° panorama is the night by the United States astronomical photographer Nike·leisige synthesis using 37,000 pictures.
United States Seattle Lei Sige, 28 years old in the United States and the Western South Africa travel around more than 60,000 miles (96,600 km), shooting a lot of the night sky, Star ball color chart made by far the largest. He shows the final results of the full around the Galaxy, stars, planets, galaxies and nebulae. Lei Sige says: "the purpose of making this picture is education and inspire people, make them aware of the hidden in the natural beauty around us. "In March 2010, Lei Sige and his brother with the 6 professional astronomical camera composed of a set of equipment into the Nevada desert, started this project. By June, Lei Sige resigned his company's Marketing Manager as a table top, start looking for him to find the darkest sky.
every night he would install the camera on a tripod and father. Every evening from 3 different colors of these camera automatic exposure wavelength range 20 to 70. Previous professional sky detection activities (included in the 1980 of the 20th century "digitized Sky Survey" project, it is "telescope in the world" and the main source of Google Sky) can only be shot from a range of red and blue light. Lei Sige says, with a third filter the sky detection seems more real. He said: "I would like to create some works, authentically showing how we see these celestial bodies, even though it brightness of 3,000 times times higher than the actual situation. "
Lei Sige keep looking for dry area away from the urban light pollution. Most of the night sky in the North was shot in Northern Arizona, Texas and California, but Lei Sige also have a cold, clear night in Colorado.
Lei Sige says: "in January we stayed in Liu Laide, waiting for the Arizona or Texas, the weather turned fine. Finally we realized that these areas of southern weather is not going well, but our place is hot. "They drove a 1-hour, came to a frozen lake, they sat in switching off heating car for up to 12 hours, when the outdoor temperature drops to lingxia6huashidu (lingxia14.44sheshidu). He said: "I want to start the car, warm the body, but I worry about exhaust gas is liquefied on the device, causes the shutter to be frost or ice on the lens. That obviously is my experience one of the coldest nights, but also in all of the toes and fingers. "
photos in the southern hemisphere is going to South Africa's two trips taken in filming locations from South Africa large telescope does not exceed 11 m. In South Africa Shi, Lei Sige and stay with father and a sheep rancher, who is also in the use of amateur telescopes observing the night sky.
after returning to Seattle, Lei Sige use a customized standard astronomical photography software to remove the noise of the camera, picture overlays with 3 colors, stitching them together in sequence. These techniques at his disposal, mostly through self-study online learning guide. Lei Sige aims to use his Web site selling poster size prints of this image, and look forward to someone will buy his camera, but he did not intend to use this work to earn money. He hoped that the Museum and Planetarium can be this panorama, or stretch it out, as a teaching tool. He said: "the Hubble Space Telescope pictures is only a small part of a big puzzle. This project aims to demonstrate the big puzzle. This is shut their eyes see. Astronomers spend a lot of time to observe the ' bark ' in the ' bugs '. And this picture more focus on the entire ' forest '. ”
