Interested in the Images?
- Check out the various publications.
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Poster prints available through Zazzle.
- Science users: here is a medium-resolution (3600×1800) FITS cube with WCS header. For higher resolution, please email me, stating the intended use of the image. Please allow a few days for my reply.
If you use my image in a publication, please acknowledge the source as follows:
Axel Mellinger, A Color All-Sky Panorama Image of the Milky Way, Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 121, 1180-1187
(2009).
- Personal use: Follow the download links for Mercator and
Hammer-Aitoff projections (each 2000 pixels wide).
- Higher resolutions, commercial & educational use: In most cases, this will require payment of a license fee (unfortunately, camera equipment and intercontinental travel do not come for free…). Please contact me at info@milkywaysky.com for license information and pricing. Please provide as much information as possible on the intended use, as well as your preferred projection and resolution.