The Deepest Photo Ever Taken

Astroturtle writes "Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope's powerful new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) have taken the deepest visible-light image ever made of the sky. The 3.5-day (84-hour) exposure captures stars as faint as 31st magnitude, according to Tom M. Brown (Space Telescope Science Institute), who headed the eight-person team that took the picture."

Comments

and NASA couldn't afford 1600...

[neurostar]

And, to think I used to complain about having to get the tripod out for exposures that were longer than 1/8th of a second! I'll never comlpain about slow film or lenses again!

Yeah, and you'd think NASA could afford 1600 ASA film for the price they paid for hubble...
I mean geez!

...hubblesite.org collapses into a singularity

[Leeji]

For the love of all things scientific, have mercy on their 122MB TIFF image.

And to think that we've turned servers into slag by Slashdotting a 43kb page.

Re:Shameless karma whoring:

[Biogenesis]

Thanks for the links, i've got it downloading in a new tab ri Segmentation Fault

This has to be the most expensive

[jkauzlar]

desktop background ever created :) Its sure worth the effort, however!

Damn,

[fireman sam]

I'd hate to have to hold my finger on the button for that long without shaking the camera.

*This is a lame joke*

Holy cow!

[polymath69]

Is that a Klingon Bird of Prey out in the distance?

Unretouched excerpt from full-resolution image.