Posted on 05/04/2015 11:40:20 AM PDT by Heartlander
It’s amazing the kinds of space photos that amateur photographers can create from their own backyards these days. Case in point: the high-resolution moon photo above was captured last week by Polish photographer Bartosz Wojczyński. It was stitched together using 32000 separate photos.
Wojczyński tells us that he used “advanced image acquisition and processing techniques,” mapping violet and infrared images of the moon to blue and red channels in the final shot.
It took him about 28 minutes to shoot 32000 photos weighing 73.5 gigabytes using his ZWO ASI174MM monochrome camera, a couple of filters, his Sky-Watcher HEQ5 mount, and his Celestron C9.25 telescope (which is equivalent to a 2350mm f/10 camera lens) — equipment that cost him about $3500 total.
The photography was done from the balcony of his apartment in Piekary Śląskie, Poland:
The equipment a few hours prior to when the photos were shot.
After the thousands of images were captured, Wojczyński spent 5-6 hours processing and stitching the images together into the 14 megapixel final image. Click here to see the original image in all its full-res glory. Here are some crops showing the details of the photo:
“Thanks to the enhanced coloration, it’s possible to examine the differences in the chemical composition of the lunar surface,” Wojczyński tells us. “For example, the bluish tint of several areas indicates a titanium-rich soil.”
P.S. Wojczyński is the same photographer that made the six-hour exposure of the celestial north pole that we featured last month.
Oh, wow, I didn't notice the topic name. Thanks martin_fierro. Extra to APoD.
Wow!
You should see the backside. It’s even worse by a factor of 1000!............
The dark side of the moon.............it's not really dark, though............
Hi-res moon photo bookmark
Did you know that there are a half-MILLION meteor craters in North and South Carolina?
73.5 gb?
I don’t have enough RAM for that
I might not have enough hdd for that
Someone check the full res and see if you can find the Apollo landing sites
What program did he use to paint the moon?
Excellent.
It took him about 28 minutes to shoot 32000 photos weighing 73.5 gigabytes using his ZWO ASI174MM monochrome camera, a couple of filters, his Sky-Watcher HEQ5 mount, and his Celestron C9.25 telescope (which is equivalent to a 2350mm f/10 camera lens) — equipment that cost him about $3500 total.
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Not bad, but I still doubt a wife or girlfriend would approve it.
Good catch ; )
Those can’t all be by accident. Somebody’s shooting at us!
Haven't found the landing sites yet, they're probably too small to see.
His photo is a jpg so it doesn’t like any resizing over 100%. You can lay over the landing sites on top of his image and see the 6 landing spots clearly (but not to the point where you can actually see physical signs of the landings).
darn
Fantastic pictures!
Bookmark.
There are concentrated clusters of impact craters on the south pole. I wonder if that tells astronomers anything about common paths of travel for large impact objects?
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