Technology along with astrology has been surprising us with each passing day. Six months ago, a photo of the Moon was released that left many people enchanted. However, recently, American astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy returned to social media with yet another impressive record of the Moon.
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Recently published, the record made by the American astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy of the natural satellite surprised thousands of people because of the 183 megapixel image.
He posted the photo on his account at twitter and then asked his followers to enlarge the image to be able to see the photo of the Moon in detail.
In addition, he explained that it was only possible to upload 25% of the original size due to the publication limitations imposed by Twitter.
I took an obscenely high resolution photo of the moon on Wednesday. Zoom in and check out the details!
(Uploaded only 25% of the original image size due to twitter image size limits) pic.twitter.com/pMrwWS1aeQ
—Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) March 5, 2023
Andrew became a celebrity after capturing Mars emerging behind the Moon, and also because of a impressive record of the galaxy The Pillars of Creation with a telescope and, then, were released in the Moon Shot documentary.
Andrew McCarthy said the new photo was the result of superimposing 180,000 16-bit images and over 600GB of data. The telescope used was an 11-inch on an equatorial mount. It basically works through two axes where one is parallel to the Earth's axis and the second allows movement from 0º at the Equator.
The operation took about 45 minutes, however he said that due to changing viewing conditions he was not very happy with the result. In the first stage of the photo, the atmosphere it was stable, but soon after, conditions deteriorated.
Even so, Andrew decided to publish the record, because, for him, it was not fair to stop publishing the image due to his own standards of meticulous people.
