I can imagine that the public perception of this project focuses on the challenge of saving all the images to a hard drive and then figuring out how to stitch them together. While that is indeed part of the project, it is actually one of the easier tasks. The true essence of this project lies in solving the unexpected problems that arise, and they appear at every turn. Some of the challenges include:

• Designing a rigid rig capable of holding the heavy lens and camera without excessive wobbling.
• Capturing 20 RAW images per second, hour after hour, couping with moving parts, cables, betteries, memory cards etc.
• Developing a storage system capable of continuously storing and moving hundreds of thousands of small files non-stop for several days.
• Keeping a computer running at full capacity, utilizing two RTX 4090s at it’s full speed.
• Developing software which is capable of processing more than 380.000 images of all kind. Some algorithms struggle when there are no details in the images that can be processed.
• Correcting colors and removing haze from images captured on several days with warying light condition is a challenge.
• This panorama is made of 4 smaller panoramas. Most work in post was done on each of the 4 panoramas. But even editing 1/4th of the panorama of this size is quite a challenge. Almost every picture had to be corrected. To fit images side by side from 1/4th of the panorama you need 8K display to fit most of the images and you even need to run virtual desktop which makes your workspace even bigger.
• Working with images of this size requiers a vast amount of local fast storage. There actually is practial limit how much fast storage you can fit in a standard PC and this is a challenge. The cost for stepping up to pro grade servers utilizing huge amount of fast local storage is astronomical. This solution is not for our wallets.

These are just few of the problems but there are many more. As we see in the final result, all of the problems can be solved.