#2015
high-resolution #moon #photo above was captured last week by Polish photographer Bartosz Wojczyński. It was stacked together using 32000 separate #photos.
Wojczyński tells us that he used “advanced image acquisition and processing techniques,” mapping violet and infrared images of the moon to blue and red channels in the final shot.
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) — equipment that cost him about $3500 total.
The #photography was done from the balcony of his apartment in Piekary Śląskie, #Poland:
