Interested in the Images?
- Check out the various publications.
- 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 my business partner for license information and pricing (provide as much information as possible on the intended use, as well as your preferred projection and resolution):
EKTECH Köhler GmbH
Werrastr. 1a
12059 Berlin
Germany
Email: 
HRB 31686, AG Berlin-Charlottenburg
Geschäftsführer: Dipl.-Phys. Eberhard Köhler
Umsatzsteuer-ID-Nr. (VAT-ID-No.): DE 136 778 723