Starry Starry Night

In: Interactive Maps Science

3 May 2011

The Photopic Sky Survey is an interactive 5000 megapixel photograph of the entire night sky stitched together from 37,000+ photos. A beautiful example of data aggregation, annotation, and exploration. One of the coolest parts? It was done by an “amateur” photographer, just because he wanted to. (project site)

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