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I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon

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Re: I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon

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~~I obviously don't know enough about images... Why would you store this as a jpg and not a LOSELESS format?~~

The full resolution image is in the comments, it's uploaded small because of Reddit

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lGDV6jOHc0v5UdkxcqYShqhKBz_...

Re: I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon

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post #2

~~I obviously don't know enough about images... Why would you store this as a jpg and not a LOSELESS format?~~ The full resolution image is in the comments, it's uploaded small because of Reddit https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lGDV6jOHc0v5UdkxcqYShqhKBz_...

> LOSELESS

Lossless

Re: I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon

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post #2

~~I obviously don't know enough about images... Why would you store this as a jpg and not a LOSELESS format?~~ The full resolution image is in the comments, it's uploaded small because of Reddit https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lGDV6jOHc0v5UdkxcqYShqhKBz_...

> LOSELESS Lossless

you lose less with a lossless codec

Re: I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon

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Beautiful picture! Author's comment about how it was made https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/arer0k/i_took_nearly...

More details from another user https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/arer0k/i_took_nearly...
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