Moon Pic Shot By 16-Year-Old Pune Boy Is Made Of 55,000 Images And 186 GB

While browsing through Reddit I stumbled upon an image that has to be one of the most detailed and most beautiful images of the Moon ever captured.

Prathamesh Jaju

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The image of the moon was captured by one Prathamesh Jaju -- a 16-year-old teenager from Pune, Maharashtra. The image is a result of 55,000 images comprising data of over 186 gigabytes.

Jaju in the comments explained how he managed to capture this beautiful image, ¡°This is my most detailed and clearest shot and my best work of the third quarter Mineral Moon. I captured around 50,000+ images over 186 GigaBytes of Data which almost killed my laptop with the processing.¡±

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He added, ¡°I first captured them by capturing multiple videos on different small areas of the Moon. Each video contains around 2000 frames, first, we stabilize them, then we merge and stack each video into one image. So I took around 38 videos. Now we have 38 images. We sharpen each one of them manually and then stitch them together in Photoshop like a big mosaic. Once the mosaic is done, some more adjustments are made and some final touch-ups and boom!¡±

For capturing this image he made use of Celestron 5 Cassegrain OTA (telescope), a ZWO ASI120MC-S super-speed USB camera, SkyWatcher EQ3-2 tripod/mount, GSO 2X BARLOW lens. In software, he used Sharpcap for capturing the image, stabilised and debaytered in PIPP, stacked in AutoStakkert, Sharpened in Registax and IMPPG, Stitched and Post-processed in Adobe Photoshop. Local Adjustments made in Lightroom and Snapseed.

In case you were wondering that the Moon that we¡¯re used to seeing looks a lot different in this image (with an entirely different colour palette) you¡¯re not wrong.

Facebook/Prathamesh Jaju

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Jaju, in the comments, explains the science behind this phenomenon, ¡°The colours represent the minerals on the moon. Our eyes can't resolve them but DSLR cameras and other specific cameras. The blue tones reveal areas rich in ilmenite, which contains iron, titanium and oxygen, mainly titanium, while the orange and purple colours show regions relatively poor in titanium and iron. The white/gray tones refer to areas of greater exposure to sunlight.¡±

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