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(MENAFN – Youm7) An astronomer captured the clearest images of the moon’s craters in the world by combining multiple shots of the moon’s line, where light meets darkness, after California-based astronomer Andrew McCarthy collected thousands of images of the phases of the moon to show its surface with unprecedented clarity.
It took up to two weeks for McCarthy to film the phases of the moon, with the largest amount of illuminated surface on Earth, according to the British website “Daily Mail”.
Moon pits
Due to the light deflection caused by the “lunar divider”, the line between the light and dark sides of the moon, various features, such as craters, seemed clearly elongated.
McCarthy snapped photos of the lunar surface where the effect was most pronounced and combined, revealing the surprising end result of an impressive array of craters and faults on the 4.5-billion-year-old moon.
Moon image
McCarthy posted these photos on his Instagram account, describing his project called ‘All Terminator’ as a ‘monster’, and said through his account: “This moon may seem a little funny, because it is an impossible sight. two weeks after filming the moon, I took the part of the image that contains the most contrast, and aligned and mixed it to show the rich texture across the entire surface. ”
Close-up of moon digging
He added: “This was exhausting, to say the least, since the moon does not align day after day, so each image must be assigned to a 3D sphere and adjusted to ensure that each unit is aligned.”
He continued, “I may or may not try this again in the moon’s declining stages depending on the comments and reactions I will receive.”
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