Image: Colin Legg/SV Studios
above the Earth with a Space Shuttle orbiter and as tronomy Photo of the Day and went viral. Two million
plays later, a team of more than 35 have volunteered
they enjoy a front row seat to the Big Bang.
Images don’t just come from NASA and the Eu- their time and talents in processing images after seeing
those early clips.
ropean Space Agency. AsIt all comes together in the basetrophotographer Colin Legg
ment of Van Vuuren’s Greensboro,
ventured hundreds of miles
North Carolina condominium on an
into Australia’s Gibson Desert
array of computers, most built by Steto capture the night sky free
phen himself.
of any light pollution. Over 11
“In Saturn’s Rings” is scheduled to
days and nights the custom
premier July 2014 and will be rolled out
built rig consisting of 5 digito planetariums, museums, science
tal SLR cameras tracked the
sky producing over 111,000
IMAX film is about 10 times larger than centers and other large screen theaters
images. Back in Greensboro
standard 35-millimeter film. Image: SV Studios for years to come. It is dedicated to
the memory of Carl Sagan and Stanley
eight computers are spending
six weeks stitching those individual photos together in Kubrick.
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