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So what does space look like at 0.99c ?
Ya got aberration firstly .. so all stars appear to be in the direction you're travelling, yeah ? (All scrunched up together .. little/no separation between them). The whole universe looks like its coming from one point ahead of you, eh ?
Then you have doppler shifting, so red stars appear closer to blue, blue go to X or gamma ray wavelengths. So some stars would get closer to human eye sensitive wavelengths .. some would disappear as they move beyond visible wavelengths .. (Need radiation shielding/screens !)
So, it looks like we also need a nifty wideband (variable sensitivity) telescope with us with really high resolving power (to separate those scrunched together stars) …
And all that's even before we've started thinking about relativistic effects !
Cheers
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