Two astrophotographers teamed up to capture a stellar image of the moon

Re:Two astrophotographers teamed up to capture a stellar ima... by hengheng on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @09:16AM (#32579050)

Parts of that mosaic are awfully soft, did they not pre-select images based on sharpness?

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Re:Two astrophotographers teamed up to capture a stellar ima... by macintux on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @09:41AM (#32579336)

You can always ask them. My guess is that after 9 months and 200k images they went with what they had.

https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/wtl9fj/two_years_ago...

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Re:Two astrophotographers teamed up to capture a stellar ima... by jetrink on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @10:56AM (#32580275)

They did themselves a bit of a disservice uploading the full-resolution version. Enlarged to 3m x 3m and viewed from 20cm away, which is approximately the situation when you view this one at 100% on a computer screen, you can see every imperfection. I think it looks great when viewed at normal size.

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Re:Two astrophotographers teamed up to capture a stellar ima... by mixmastamyk on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @12:38PM (#32581959)

There seems to be a blur or glow applied to the bright edge, as if there is an atmosphere. It's not in the input photos. Looks distracting to me.

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Re:Two astrophotographers teamed up to capture a stellar ima... by jacquesm on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @02:15PM (#32583545)

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LADEE/news/lunar-atmosphe...

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