Where can i get a image map of the night sky or universe?

[ManuelHayse]

I would like to wrap an image map on a sky_sphere and thereby have a realistic looking night sky in my POVRay images. Thanks

[LeroyWilliams]

That will be in any book of universe and space
which has images

[MarthaBatie]

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and books

[LutherPhillips]

That depends on what resolution you want. There are no high resolution image maps of the entire sky. Starry Night has a composite that is generated/rendered by software on the fly but most other planetariums paint the sky n the fly by co-ordinates and object type.

There are lots of hemispherical images available - but they tend to be somewhat distorted and very low resolution.