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After being stunned by the close-up of the stars I'm tempted to download the 4.3GB original [1]. The scale was unexpected having mostly seen only resized photos before.

[1] http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/origina...

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If anyone has succeeded in downloading the original from here or elsewhere...care to provide a mirror/torrent magnet link?

What program can open such file?

From previous experiments, any program that stores image data in quad-tree order (or even just tiles, but I hate tiles) should be able to pan around such an image with little effort even if you have only a fraction of the RAM but plenty of swap space. Of course zooming out will require either the full RAM or MIP maps. But IDK a specific app.

That's a Photoshop Big file, which can be opened with Photoshop, obviously, provided your computer has sufficient RAM.

So I guess it won't be of much use with my linux box...

If the psb format can be converted to ppm format (via ImageMagick?), and image size is the issue, maybe NASA's BigView could be an option:

BigView allows for interactive panning and zooming of images of arbitrary size on desktop PCs running linux. Additionally, it can work in a multi-screen environment where multiple PCs cooperate to view a single large image. Using this software, one can explore -- on relatively modest machines -- images such as the Mars Orbiter Camera mosaic [92160x33280 pixels].

http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/opensource/projects/bigview/

I've done some searching, but I haven't found any software that supports .PSB on Linux. Perhaps there's a plugin for The GIMP that would work, but I was unable to find one, sorry...

It's probably more trouble than it's worth, but you could install Wine and Photoshop on your Linux box, or find someone with a Windows machine and Photoshop who could convert the file to another format that you're able to use, like .PNG for example.

ImageMagick?:

http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=...

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