Assuming that this image will be released with a Commons-compatible
license, sooner or later (maybe many years later), there will be a use case
for increasing the Commons file size limit to 194GB:
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/5817599570/astronomers-create-46-gigapixel…
Perhaps in a timeframe in the nearer future, could MediaViewer be tweaked
to download and show only small portions at a time of large images and/or
tiled sets of of images? I think this feature might get a lot of use from
the moment of deployment.
Thanks!
Pine