While browsing through Reddit, I stumbled upon the image of our Moon, however, there was something rather amazing about it.?
The image wasn¡¯t grey and monochromatic as the Moon images that we see often. Instead, this moon image had brown and bluish-grey tones along with the light grey we¡¯re used to seeing, resulting in a rather breathtaking image of our satellite.?
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The heading surprised me further -- the image was captured by someone from Pune, Maharashtra and posted on Reddit by Prathamesh Jaju.?
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I wanted to learn a bit more about this photographer, so I did what any curious photographer would do, look him up on Instagram and not only did I find this exact image there but a few other masterpieces that look crazy good.
The 16-year old astrophotographer captured this image last year in November 2020. For this image, Jaju, in the caption has stated that he made use of a NexStar 5" Reflector with Zwoasi ASI120MC for capturing the stunning details whereas a SkyWatcher 8¡± Collapsible Reflector Dobsonian with a Canon EOS 90D (with an APS-C CMOS sensor) was used for the colours. He used software like PIPP, Autostakkert, IMPPG, Registax 6, Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom for post-processing.?
In the caption, he¡¯s also tagged popular astrophotographers like Cosmic_Background, Curtis Morgan and others for the inspiration behind this pic. We¡¯ve already seen quite a few stunning creations by Cosmic_Backgrounds in the past.
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And even though this image was truly amazing,?there was another picture of the Moon that took my breath away. The moon was glowing in pink-blue hues that made it look like an entirely unique celestial object.?
This image was also captured using a Skywatcher 8¡± Collapsible Reflector Dobsonian, however, this time with a Nikon D5200. This image was exported out of a 1000 frames from a 4K video.?
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He¡¯s also captured images of our galaxy, with one captured from the Himalayas. In the caption, he¡¯s revealed that the image was captured without trackers and completely handheld, without the need of a tripod on a Canon 1300D budget DSLR and 18-55mm kit lens.
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He said, ¡°I took the support of a rock and kept the camera steady to take around 40 images of 25 seconds each at ISO 1600 at 18 mm f/3.5.¡± The image is an amalgamation of multiple images stacked together in Photoshop and he¡¯s also used software like PixInight.??