american astrophotographer andrew maccarthy snaps 280000 images create one incredible photo of Moon see here
American photographer McCarthy has created an amazing image by taking 2,80,000 photographs of the moon. The photographer has also shared this image on his Twitter handle. In a normal photo, the surface of the moon appears to be gray in color, on which it is not possible to understand much. But in this photo, lava lakes present on the surface of the moon, lava tubes that look like the marks of crawling insects, valleys and impact craters can also be seen. Also, the photo is so beautiful to look at that everyone keeps looking at it. See this amazing picture-
Using two telescopes and over 280,000 individual photos, I captured my most detailed image of our moon. The full size is over a gigapixel. Trust me, you’ll want to zoom in on this one. pic.twitter.com/JQNAEVvmG1
—Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) May 11, 2023
The photo shows great clarity. Describing this feat, McCarthy has written that he used two telescopes for this. He took more than 2 lakh 80 thousand photos. This fullsize image is expressed in gigapixels. It took McCarthy more than 2 weeks to do this work. Even before this he had prepared photographs of the moon in this manner. But the photo prepared earlier was made by combining 50 thousand different photos.
Apart from sharing the photo on Twitter, he has also posted a timelapse video of it on his Instagram. In which it is rapidly shown how they accomplished this. In this he has also shown his camera setup and the entire process. Apart from the Moon, photographer McCarthy has also captured Venus, Nebula etc. on camera.