The 1.3-gigabyte image is perhaps the clearest image of the Moon ever captured.
Photographer’s Incredible ‘GigaMoon’ Image is Made From 280,000 PhotosAstrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has captured a “GigaMoon” — a 1.3-gigapixel highly-detailed image of the Moon made from 280,000 photos.
McCarthy used an 11-inch telescope with a 2.5x powermate which ultimately gave him a focal length of 7000mm, variances in temperature between atmospheric layers can cause the Moon to look blurry and shaky when viewed through that kind of magnification.But on the evening of April 29, the forecast was good so McCarthy decided to take another crack at it.
“For that reason, I capture about 2,000 images at a time. Doing this on each section, then slewing my telescope and doing it again and again eventually covering the full moon is how these images are captured.” “For that, I used my 12-inch Newtonian telescope equipped with a full-frame CMOS camera. While it was monochrome as well, it has a filter wheel, allowing me to cycle through red, green, and blue filters during capture to get high-quality color data I could add to the final image.”
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