Moon universe

Photographer Andrew McCarthy has transformed 50,000 individual images of the night sky into one very large and detailed photo of the moon. Every crater and lunar mare on the “light” side looks like it was shot from within the natural satellite’s orbit, when the image was actually created from a telescope and two camera setup 239,000Continue reading "50,000 Photographs Combine to Form a Detailed Image of the Moon and Stars"

Moon Surface

Is there anything more breathtaking and surreal than outer space? Often, I feel like there absolutely isn't. Maybe it's because of all the celestial masterpieces stars, galaxies, and planets paint, effortlessly sweeping us off our feet?

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Crescent moon - 100% crop from 8(?) stacked subexposures Image Scale = 1.11 arc-second/pixel Date: 2011/05/07 Exposure: 8(?) out of 13 x 1/80 sec at approximately f/9, ISO 100 Lens: Nikon 800mm f/5.6 ED AI-S at about f/9 (seemed sharper than f/5.6, f/8, or f/11) Camera : unmodified Canon T2i = 550D Mount: Astro-Physics AP900 -- rough polar alignment (no drift alignment) Processing: Focusing via EOS utility live view, exposures made from live view mode (EFSC active, so no mirror slap or first…

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You probably know that feeling when you‘re trying to understand how big the universe really is, but you end up with your head about to explode. It gets slightly easier when there‘s some kind of context available, so we can make comparisons and get an idea of scale. A while ago, a guy behind the Youtube channel named Yeti Dynamics created a video showing how big the planets in our solar system actually are, by placing them in a context we are familiar with: sky.