the beauty of mapping


Kode Iklan Disini

Friday, December 11, 2020

Interactive Map Of The Southern Sky


The Australian National University has released the well-nigh detailed interactive map of the southern sky. The Southern Sky Viewer allows you lot to explore nearly 300 1000000 stars as well as galaxies that tin live on seen from the southern hemisphere.

The map is made from images captured yesteryear a specially-built, wide-field survey telescope at Siding Spring Observatory close Coonabarabran. The basemap is made upwards of 70,000 ultra-high-resolution images, which agency that you lot tin zoom-in on the map to show stars, nebula as well as galaxies inwards unopen detail.

The map doesn't look to include an selection to link to specific views on the map. However the map does include a search selection which allows you lot to search for features yesteryear lift or yesteryear position. Try searching for these:

Centaurus A
Horsehead Nebula
Carina Nebula
Alpha Carinae
Helix Nebula