The Areddit image recently appeared on social media which is probably one of the most detailed images of the Moon ever captured. Captured by 16-year-old Prathamesh Jaju of Pune, Maharashtra, the image is made up of 55,000 images involving data of more than 186 gigabytes.
In a comment posted on the article, Jaju explained how he managed to take a good photo. He said, “This is my most detailed and clear rifle and my good work for the third quarter Mineral Moon. I took about 50,000+ photos over 186 GigaBytes of Data that almost killed my laptop. ”
He also said, “I first caught them by filming a lot of videos in different parts of the Moon. Each video contains 2000 frames, for the first time, we stabilize it, then combine and put each video into a single image. So I took 38 videos. We now have 38 pictures. We sharpen each one of them by hand and assemble them in Photoshop like a large mosaic. Once the color is done, some changes are made and one last touch is exploded! “
Check the image: https://www.instagram.com/p/COiTQQSJZy8/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=ef857756-6030-49e8-aa80-4d86f5972d3d
According to one of his Instagram captions for the image, Jaju said that he used Celestron 5 Cassegrain OTA (telescope), a ZWO ASI120MC-S super-speed USB camera while taking the photo. He added that he used a SkyWatcher 8” Collapsible Reflector Dobsonian with a Canon EOS 90D (with an APS-C CMOS sensor) for the colours. For the detailed post-processing, Jaju used softwares like PIPP, Autostakkert, IMPPG, Registax 6, Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.
While the colour of the Moon seems to be unusual in the image, according to Jaju, the colours represent the minerals on the moon, which our eyes can’t resolve but DSLR cameras and other specific cameras.
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