This is a composite from over 100k individual photos of the moon, which were aligned and stacked to create this image. This photo has been compressed miserably, as I could not get the original image to upload to reddit without an error message (400 megabyte PNG files tend to do that) but the original files have no banding and less noise. I use a telescope and a special camera to take these pictures.
A lot of my shots look similar, but each is unique. If you compare this to other shots with the same phase you can see how different features along the terminator are highlighted. This one has a grainy aesthetic visible when you zoom in that I kind of like, but was the result of sharpening when the seeing conditions were terrible.
For more space photography, check out my instagram @cosmic_background All my images acre captured from my backyard in Sacramento, California.
LazyRider32 on September 29th, 2019 at 13:14 UTC »
Sorry if these might be stupid question but:
Which instruments& image software did you use? And how did you get to 100k photos? How long did it took you to get all those images?
@all those who ask about the fact that theres a lot of craters along a line at the center, its just because its where the sun impacts at the lowest angle, making craters more visible
![image showing My latest shot of the moon in 81 megapixels. [OC]](5b82b3c8-2c09-5956-b583-05008a0ddf92.jpg)
ajamesmccarthy on September 29th, 2019 at 11:36 UTC »
This is a composite from over 100k individual photos of the moon, which were aligned and stacked to create this image. This photo has been compressed miserably, as I could not get the original image to upload to reddit without an error message (400 megabyte PNG files tend to do that) but the original files have no banding and less noise. I use a telescope and a special camera to take these pictures.
A lot of my shots look similar, but each is unique. If you compare this to other shots with the same phase you can see how different features along the terminator are highlighted. This one has a grainy aesthetic visible when you zoom in that I kind of like, but was the result of sharpening when the seeing conditions were terrible.
For more space photography, check out my instagram @cosmic_background All my images acre captured from my backyard in Sacramento, California.
LazyRider32 on September 29th, 2019 at 13:14 UTC »
Sorry if these might be stupid question but:
Which instruments& image software did you use? And how did you get to 100k photos? How long did it took you to get all those images?
slightly_mental on September 29th, 2019 at 13:47 UTC »
@all those who ask about the fact that theres a lot of craters along a line at the center, its just because its where the sun impacts at the lowest angle, making craters more visible