PROJECT CONSTELLATION / THE OBSERVED SKY

Observed CORONA BOREALIS sky.

This is real near-infrared survey imagery from 2MASS. Its J, H and Ks measurements are shown in false color and registered to the same north-up, east-left projection as our constellation figure. It is an archival survey view, not a real-time sky camera.

Observed near-infrared sky field of CORONA BOREALIS, shown in false color — 2MASS / University of Massachusetts & IPAC/Caltech; NASA/NSF. HiPS: CDS (CNRS/Unistra).

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Real stars. A considered frame.

The selected constellation stars keep their catalog positions. Connecting lines and orbital accents are design guides. The survey background and diagram share a fixed registration; the light effect changes brightness only.

Contains information from 2MASS color HiPS, made available under the Open Database License. The underlying survey is credited above. This view used HiPS2FITS, a service provided by CDS.

Source and projection details

Scientific reprojection of observed J/H/Ks data. K is mapped to red, H to green and J to blue by the survey service. A native 7680 × 7680 output is assembled from sixteen adjacent, equally scaled survey cutouts. Web copies are reduced from that master; no smaller picture is enlarged to create the 8K view.

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