Little Planet Lovejoy


Eine stereografische Projektion der Erde mit Komet Lovejoy, der sich gerade aus dem Staub macht:
Once a bright apparition in the southern hemisphere dawn Comet Lovejoy is fading, but its long tail still stretches across skies near the south celestial pole. Captured on the morning of December 30th ... the image was created from a 12 frame mosaic used to construct a spherical panorama. The type of stereographic projection used to map the image pixels is centered directly below the camera and is known as the little planet projection ...
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