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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"

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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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