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Good morning RP. Today's image is a compiled mosaic of the Milky Way from the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (PAN-STARRS) Observatory, located at the summit of Haleakala Volcano (on the island of Maui). It is appropriately titled "Pan-STARRS Across the Sky."
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Thank you, my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for sharing the NASA picture of the day for April 5 entitled "Pan-STARRS Across the Sky."
Image" Pan-STARRS Across the Sky - image credit R. White (STScI) and the PS1 Science Consortium
"Explanation: This astronomical sky spanning view is a mosaic from the Pan-STARRS observatory. The images were recorded with its 1.8 meter telescope at the summit of Haleakala on planet Earth's island of Maui. In fact, Earth's north celestial pole is centered in this across-the-sky projection. A declination of -30 degrees, the southern horizon limit as seen from the Hawaiian Valley Isle, defines the circular outer edge. Crowded starfields and cosmic dust clouds along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy stretch across the scene with the bright bulge of the galactic center at the bottom. Compiled over four years, the image data represent the second edition of data from Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System), currently the planet's largest digital sky survey. In 2017 Pan-STARRS was used to first recognize the interstellar voyage of 'Oumuamua, visitor to our Solar System."
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Image" Pan-STARRS Across the Sky - image credit R. White (STScI) and the PS1 Science Consortium
"Explanation: This astronomical sky spanning view is a mosaic from the Pan-STARRS observatory. The images were recorded with its 1.8 meter telescope at the summit of Haleakala on planet Earth's island of Maui. In fact, Earth's north celestial pole is centered in this across-the-sky projection. A declination of -30 degrees, the southern horizon limit as seen from the Hawaiian Valley Isle, defines the circular outer edge. Crowded starfields and cosmic dust clouds along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy stretch across the scene with the bright bulge of the galactic center at the bottom. Compiled over four years, the image data represent the second edition of data from Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System), currently the planet's largest digital sky survey. In 2017 Pan-STARRS was used to first recognize the interstellar voyage of 'Oumuamua, visitor to our Solar System."
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I am in absolute AWE Maj William W. 'Bill' Price of this absolutely unimaginable, mesmerizing and glorious Circular Panoramic vista of Our Space, Our Milky Way Galaxy!!! I am stunningly without adequate words to simply describe in detail what I see in this image!!!
Thank you for Choosing this as your Astronomy Picture of the Day!!! This will be on my mind the entire day!!! I hope you have an Awesome day, Bill!!!
Thank you for Choosing this as your Astronomy Picture of the Day!!! This will be on my mind the entire day!!! I hope you have an Awesome day, Bill!!!
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Maj William W. 'Bill' Price
Glad you enjoy the daily selections Sgt (Join to see). But I can only take credit for sharing what someone else already posted. APOD was one of my customers when I worked at NASA. I'm just helping drive their traffic numbers.
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Maj William W. 'Bill' Price Thank you, but you still have to pull it together each day and keep abreast of what is going to be posted... What you Post are the most stunning images of Space, anyone could hope want... I devour everything I read and see!!! For me it is a wonderful learning experience... At my age, there are far too many years behind me and so relatively few ahead...but I keep pushing for more and savor everything I can each day... Have a great afternoon & evening, Bill.
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