The panoramas include more than 50 times more stars those detected with the naked eye.In addition to the allsky panoramas, we embedded higher resolution images of specific regions of interest such as: emission nebulae and dark, open and globular clusters and galaxies which can be zoomed.The photographs have been acquiring since December 2014 in a dark place with low light pollution in the countryside of Uruguay which allows us to achieve deep sky objects.These panoramas will be available on a website and can be accessed with any browser.This tool will be available for teaching purposes, astronomy popularization or introductory research. The images are then processed and stitched to create the gigantic panorama, with typical weight of several GBytes.The limiting magnitude is V~8. These devices and a autoguiding telescope are mounted in a equatorial telescope mount, which allows us to have exposure of several tens seconds. We are preparing 4 sets of panoramas corresponding to the four seasons.The individual images are taken with a 16 Mpixels DLSR camera with a 50 mm lens mounted on a Gigapan EPIC robotic camera mounts. The panoramas are accessible with a web-browser and the public is able to zoom on them and to see the sky with better quality than the naked eye. Each allsky panorama is a giant image composed by hundreds of high-resolution photos taken in the course of one night. We are conducting a project to make available panoramas of the night sky of the southern hemisphere, based on a mosaic of hundred of photographs.
Tancredi, Gonzalo Da Rosa, Fernando Roland, Santiago Almenares, Luciano Gomez, Fernando The interactive sky: a browsable allsky image
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