Tim's Weather World: Say Cheese Milky Way!

French photographers have painstakingly stitched together 1200 digital images to put together an amazing panoramic view of the Milky Way galaxy.

The image was produced by the European Southern Observatory's GigaGalaxy Zoom project.  The original image contains about 800 million pixels.  A zoomable image can be found by clicking here.  It has a measly 18 million pixels.

For you photographers, a Nikon D3 digital camera (50 mm lens open at f5.6) was used for the photos used to piece together this awesome view.