Publications and Press Releases
Milky Way Panorama 2.0 (Fully Digital)
- October 2011: The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas is out!
- November 2010: Sky and Telescope's Beautiful Universe 2011 contains a bonus CD with the interactive Milky Way Panorama.
- Sept. 23, 2010: A photographic star atlas based on my Milky Way panorama was published
by Oculum in Germany.
- May 2010: A new Flash-based viewer is available, which offers smooth scrolling and hotspots for Deep-Sky objects.
- May 2010: Bonus poster in Astronomy Magazine
- Dec. 2009: Sections of the image are available through NASA's Skyview.
- Nov. 25, 2009: The Milky Way panorama is featured as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Nov. 24, 2009: Scientist Takes Pictures of Entire Sky on ABC News
- Nov. 6, 2009: Press release and video by Central Michigan University
- Oct. 28, 2009: Press release by University of Chicago Press.
- Oct. 16, 2009: A. Mellinger, "A Color All-Sky Panorama Image of the Milky Way", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 121, 1180-1187 (2009), published by University of Chicaco Press.
Milky Way Panorama 1.0 (Film-Based)
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Sky Publishing Corporation
is selling two different poster versions of the panorama:
- A galactic projection called "The Milky Way", showing the sky within +/-40 degrees of the galactic equator
- An equidistant azimuthal projection (called "The Celestial Sphere") showing the entire northern and southern hemisphere of the sky.
- For high-quality custom size prints, check out Hutech's web site.
- For high-resolution electronic files, please email me.
- In 2002, Kosmos published
a star atlas (in German) based on the panorama image.
New 2008 edition:
Axel Mellinger, Susanne M. Hoffmann:
Der große Kosmos-Himmelsatlas - English edition published by Firefly Books
Ltd.:
Axel Mellinger, Susanne M. Hoffmann:
The New Atlas of the Stars - An article about the (film-based) panorama (Star Forming Regions along the Milky Way: A Panoramic View) is the first chapter in the Handbook of Star Forming Regions, Bo Reipurth (ed.), Vol. I, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2008.
- K. Kizer Whitt and A. Mellinger, "The Milky Way from the
inside'', Astronomy 29(11), 58 - 63 (2001).
- A. Mellinger, "Die Milchstraße im Computer: Entstehung eines Himmelspanoramas", Sterne und Weltraum, p. 174, Feb./March 2000.
- D. di Cicco, "There's No Place Like Home", Sky and Telescope, Nov. 1999, pp. 137-140.
- An article describing the digital processing steps of the film-based panorama is available as HTML for online viewing and PDF for printing.