18 Jan 16
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Originally posted by sonhouseIt incorporates photos, but overall still takes a lot of artistic licence. I am sure the outer edge (a quarter of the diameter) is not based directly on photos. The rest of it is just photos put in the approximately right places but not necessarily correctly to scale.
http://www.zmescience.com/other/astropicture/logarithmic-map-universe/
These are not drawings but photos made by dozens of telescopes on Earth and in orbit.
Certainly the scale of the sun in proportion to the planets is wrong as are the sizes of the planets in relation to each other.
It does look nice though.
18 Jan 16
Originally posted by twhiteheadIt was meant to be a work of art, not an exact replica of the universe. How could you do that accurately in one piece maybe 2 feet across, whatever the size is. He could do a decent job if it was full size however🙂
It incorporates photos, but overall still takes a lot of artistic licence. I am sure the outer edge (a quarter of the diameter) is not based directly on photos. The rest of it is just photos put in the approximately right places but not necessarily correctly to scale.
Certainly the scale of the sun in proportion to the planets is wrong as are the sizes of the planets in relation to each other.
It does look nice though.