VSn Wednesday at 7 p.m., the museum of the University of Mons (Mumons) will unveil a never-before-seen photo of the Milky Way. In 2023, two astrophotographers, Julien De Winter and Victor Sabet, decided to arm themselves with two focal lengths approaching 450 mm to produce a very high definition gigamosaic (400 million pixels) of the Milky Way.
It took record installation time and hundreds of hours of assembly for an exceptional result. “It may seem a little vague said like that, but imagine: 27 tiles, or 27 photos, captured in record time with the attention to detail of a lacemaker! Hours of shooting in the wind, at 3000 meters altitude, where the sky is pure and deep black, then hundreds of hours of assembly to obtain a maximum resolution of 400 million pixels! A technological feat which will, moreover, add beauty to the current exhibition at the museum, “Exploring the Invisible”, by integrating this new 18 m² work into our collection of “the infinitely far””, explains the Mumons in a press release.
