{"id":1514,"date":"2015-05-06T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2015-05-06T13:17:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T05:17:49","slug":"this-high-res-moon-photo-was-made-by-a-self-taught-astrophotographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/2015\/05\/this-high-res-moon-photo-was-made-by-a-self-taught-astrophotographer\/","title":{"rendered":"This High-Res Moon Photo Was Made by a Self-Taught Astrophotographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Michael Zhang<\/p>\n<p><strong>petapixel.com &#8211;<\/strong> It\u2019s amazing the kinds of space photos that amateur photographers can create from their own backyards these days. Case in point: the high-resolution moon photo above was captured last week by Polish photographer Bartosz Wojczy\u0144ski. It was stacked together using 32000 separate photos.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"681\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1519\" alt=\"moonhires\" src=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/moonhires.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/moonhires.jpg 640w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/moonhires-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wojczy\u0144ski tells us that he used \u201cadvanced image acquisition and processing techniques,\u201d mapping violet and infrared images of the moon to blue and red channels in the final shot.<\/p>\n<p>It took him about 28 minutes to shoot 32000 photos weighing 73.5 gigabytes using his ZWO ASI174MM monochrome camera, a couple of filters, his Sky-Watcher HEQ5 mount, and his Celestron C9.25 telescope (which is equivalent to a 2350mm f\/10 camera lens) \u2014 equipment that cost him about $3500 total.<\/p>\n<p>The photography was done from the balcony of his apartment in Piekary \u015al\u0105skie, Poland:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shoot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"464\" height=\"700\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1515\" alt=\"shoot\" src=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shoot.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shoot.jpg 464w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shoot-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the thousands of images were captured, Wojczy\u0144ski spent 5-6 hours processing and stacking the images together into the 14 megapixel final image. Click here to see the original image in all its full-res glory. Here are some crops showing the details of the photo:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/details1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"548\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1516\" alt=\"details1\" src=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/details1.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/details1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/details1-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/details2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"503\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1520\" alt=\"details2\" src=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/details2.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/details2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/details2-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/feature4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"476\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1518\" alt=\"feature4\" src=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/feature4.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/feature4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/feature4-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/feature3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"524\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1517\" alt=\"feature3\" src=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/feature3.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/feature3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/feature3-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to the enhanced coloration, it\u2019s possible to examine the differences in the chemical composition of the lunar surface,\u201d Wojczy\u0144ski tells us. \u201cFor example, the bluish tint of several areas indicates a titanium-rich soil.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> Wojczy\u0144ski is the same photographer that made the six-hour exposure of the celestial north pole that we featured last month.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source: http:\/\/petapixel.com\/2015\/05\/04\/this-high-res-moon-photo-was-made-by-a-self-taught-astrophotographer\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Michael Zhang petapixel.com &#8211; It\u2019s amazing the kinds of space photos that amateur photographers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,129,9,7,128,55],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-astrophotography","tag-bartosz-wojczynski","tag-moon","tag-news","tag-petapixel-com","tag-telescope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}