It’s funny what a difference a little resolution makes. For example, if you look at this photo of the Moon, you’d probably agree it’s very well done and very pretty:
Nice, right? But I post lots of really great pictures here, and this one at first glance doesn’t seem to distinguish itself.
Ah, but appearances can be deceiving: I had to lower the resolution way down to fit my blog. Way down. If you click to enlunenate it, you get a very, verydifferent impression of it, since it’s actually a ginormous 3890 x 4650 pixel monster mosaic! That’s 18 megapixels of lunar goodness!
And it’s gorgeous.
Its not a single shot, but a very nicely done and seamless mosaic of images taken by Andrré vd Hoeven using a Celestron 28 cm (11") telescope. It was actually created using video: he pointed at one part of the Moon, took a 30 ...
