I captured an 85 megapixel photo of our moon last night. Zoom in to properly experience it!

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ajamesmccarthy on August 27th, 2020 at 00:16 UTC »

This is my latest effort to show you how our moon looks through a telescope. It was done by using a telescope at 2000mm and capturing 24,000 individual photos. 4 panels with 6,000 photos each (my camera works at crazy high framerates) allowed me to take the best frames where the atmosphere disturbed the image the least and combine them, stitching together a mosaic of all the images. This allowed me to get crazy details and contrast on a relatively noise-free image.

If you want to learn more about what kind of gear I use to take my photos, I put together a little youtube video walking through it.

To see more of my work, links to less compressed versions, and the behind the scenes of this stuff- check out my insta @ cosmic_background

RiggyNo on August 27th, 2020 at 00:17 UTC »

Wow, ngl was expecting something to be hidden on it.

Brandiblank on August 27th, 2020 at 01:41 UTC »

Really wish my brain could grasp the size of the craters in scale to us. Giant empty lake? Giant empty country? Would it be like walking up to an edge or like climbing up a mountain to look into a Grand Canyon