Time to upgrade your wallpapers, people. Two astrophotographers have just dropped what they call "the most ridiculously detailed picture" of the Moon - the result of a painstaking, neck-craning effort roughly two years and over 200,000 frames in the making. For millennia, humans have looked up and.
In Arizona, McCarthy shot 200,000 frames of the moon to capture every detail, and in Louisiana, Matherne took 500 color images to give the final image incredible vibrancy. A viral post has revealed an incredible new image of the moon - but it wasn't captured by NASA. "The most ridiculously detailed" image of Earth's lunar neighbor was a two.
Two astrophotographers, Andrew McCarthy and Connor Matherne, took almost a full year to create a spectacularly detailed and colorful image of the Moon. The result was a hyper-detailed image of the Tycho Crater with 16.4-foot (5-meter) resolution. Two astrophotographers have just released what they describe as the 'most ridiculously detailed picture' of the Moon yet, comprising 200,000+ images.
A two. This stunning high-res moon image reveals the moon's surface, craters, and lunar topography in incredible detail. Following four days of continuous observation, Darya Kawa Mirza captured the moon and its rugged surface in exceptional detail.
The self-taught Kurdish astrophotographer amassed 81,000 images, which he stitched into a 708. Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy created GigaMoon, a 1.3-gigapixel highly detailed photo of the Moon made from 280 thousand individual photographs. McCarthy spent a lot of time creating gigaphoto, and several times his work was almost disrupted due to bad weather conditions.
Detailed view of GigaMoon. Photo: Andrew McCarthy "My hard drive is filled with dozens of failed attempts at GigaMoon. Earth's Moon Moon Galleries Moon Home Facts Inside & Out Moon in Motion Observe Exploration More The Solar System Moon Galleries.