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The American combined multiple-phase shots of the crescent moon to create a spectacular image.
The American astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has managed to take the clearest and most detailed image of the craters of the Moon by carefully combining numerous shots of the line that divides the light side from the dark side of the natural satellite, the so-called ‘lunar terminator’ or ‘twilight zone’.
In that line the Sun is closer to the horizon, something that creates longest shadows that give the lunar surface a three-dimensional appearance and thus make the craters more noticeable.
McCarthy spent two weeks taking photographs during the crescent moon as the amount of lunar surface illuminated increased, and then he combined the images into a composite photo in spectacular detail with all of the Moon’s visible craters and blemishes.
“This Moon may seem a bit strange to you, and that’s because it’s an impossible scene. Of the two weeks of crescent moon images, I took the section of the image that has the highest contrast (just before the lunar terminator where the shadows are longest), aligned and mixed them together to show the rich texture on the entire surface“he wrote on his Instagram page, where he published the result of his painstaking work.
At the beginning of the year, the same astrophotographer obtained another amazing image of the Moon by combining 50,000 photos from our satellite, achieving spectacular sharpness.
