So how did Nick Risinger create this masterpiece of an image? First of all, it is composed of 37,440 images, leading to a full resolution of 5,000 megapixels. It is the largest ever true color photograph of the night sky. Risinger lugged six synchronized cameras about 60,000miles to capture all these images. This wasn’t an overnight project by any means. He had to make a schedule for capturing the images from both the northern and southern hemispheres. He split the sky into 624 sections and entered the coordinates for each one of them into a computer.