A 1250 hour exposure of the Milky Way

[Pikaia]

"Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsavainio has released a Milky Way photo that took him nearly 12 years to create. The 1.7-gigapixel image has a cumulative exposure time of 1,250 hours."

https://petapixel.com/2021/03/16/photog ... qC6LYVGlRA

[messier 111]

superb work , thx for the tip .

[John Donne]

Fantastic !
I have enjoyed this post as much as any other I have read here. I would love to see these image on an 8 X10 ft wall, or whatever size wall that would do.
I have often wondered if one could expose long enough and with precision so that the image would be so filled with stars that there would be no dark spaces between them.
He has almost done this.
Imagine the density ...
Well my imagination runs away with me.
Thank you for this post.

[SparWeb]

I just found this on Space.com - no surprise it would inspire a post on TSS, too. It's incredible!

To attribute this properly, it's the work of J-P Metsävainio, from Finland.
https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/

[mikemarotta]

"Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsavainio has released a Milky Way photo that took him nearly 12 years to create. The 1.7-gigapixel image has a cumulative exposure time of 1,250 hours."

Obviously, not the presentation we usually get. I wonder exactly what is revealed. It would be interesting to know what we are looking at.