I took an 8k shot of the supermoon as it cut through the clouds. Try zooming in on the surface details. [OC]

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image showing I took an 8k shot of the supermoon as it cut through the clouds. Try zooming in on the surface details. [OC]

ajamesmccarthy on March 24th, 2019 at 00:01 UTC »

My shot of the "Super Worm Moon" the other night. The clouds broke just long enough for me to get this. This is a composite- I used different settings for the clouds and the moon, but this is very close to how it looked through the eyepiece of my telescope.

Equipment:

Orion XT10

Skywatcher eq6-r pro

ZWO asi 224mc

Sony a7ii

Process:

Clouds, moon position and orientation captured with the Sony, Detail on the lunar surface captured with the zwo and aligned with the Sony data and added as an HDR layer. Minor contrast/color adjustments in photoshop.

You have my blessing to use this as a wallpaper if you like it. For any other use please DM me.

For more moon pics- come find me on instagram @cosmic_background. I give live updates during my projects and share tips in my stories!

Since I love you, here's a link to the HQ jpg: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FJiYTw2Rb5ag2OhrjSBAIfUq41sW7DEG/view?usp=sharing

If this post looks familiar, I posted it to r/pics 2 days ago. r/space is my favorite community, so I reposted it here. I hope that's okay with you.

Selina074 on March 24th, 2019 at 00:19 UTC »

That's amazing. The more I zoom in, the sharper the details become. I feel like if there wasn't a limit on how much I could zoom in on the picture I would have zoomed all the way down to the surface and have a Google maps POV of the moon.

Idler- on March 24th, 2019 at 00:56 UTC »

That crater in the upper right makes me SO happy we have an atmosphere. Like. Fuck.