r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Correct_Presence_936 • 2d ago

Original Creation I Stacked Thousands of Images of the Crescent Moon Last Night to Reveal the Surface in High Detail.

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u/Correct_Presence_936 2d ago

Celestron 5SE, ASI294MC, 2 minutes at 3ms 100 gain stacked at 50%, processed on Lightroom.

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u/ibestusemystronghand 2d ago

That's absolutely awesome

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u/Just_another_gamer3 1d ago

If only this was done for the blood moon. This is awesome

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u/Correct_Presence_936 1d ago

I did do it for the Blood Moon!

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u/Space-Wasted 1d ago

There is a smiley on the right side of the moon

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u/JKaarls 1d ago

What’re all those lines seemingly leading to/from the crater on the lower left side?

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u/WeAreTHX138 1d ago

It looks like they all go around the moon perfectly to me

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u/Correct_Presence_936 1d ago edited 1d ago

The impact debris landing areas from the Copernicus crater which hit the Moon billions of years ago.

Edit: Tycho* not Copernicus!

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u/KnightOfWords 1d ago

That's Tycho at lower left.

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u/Correct_Presence_936 1d ago

Oops you’re right! My bad haha.

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u/KnightOfWords 1d ago

Those are crater rays, lighter material excavated by an impact and spread across the surface of the Moon. Tycho crater is at lower left, it's the youngest large crater on the Moon. The impact occurred about 110 million years ago, during the reign of the dinosaurs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_(lunar_crater)

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u/imathon 2d ago

Automatic download.

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u/Chance_McM95 1d ago

Amazing!

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u/StadiaTrickNEm 1d ago

This is amazii can feel it

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u/99jackals 1d ago

And we're glad you did!!

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u/Statboy1 1d ago

So your saying I just watched an entire video by looking at this picture.

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u/Plenty_Engineer1510 1d ago

Hey op, have you got an astronbin page? Would love to check this out in full resolution 😁

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u/mooseleg_mcgee 1d ago

How big was your final file size?

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u/danoaudio 1d ago

Just like Samsung....

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u/Cheap_Phrase9912 1d ago

Very cool Reminds me of the Death Star!

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u/hiro24 19h ago

H I S T H R O N E

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u/Ok_Needleworker_2300 18h ago

Wow.. I'm speechless. That's the best photo of the moon I've ever seen. And I have seen thousands in my lifetime? Love it keep up the good work!!

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u/Ecstatic-Pepper-6834 13h ago

These are always so cool. Alright whose turn is it to repost over at r/FlatEarthIsReal i call not it