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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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Post by diegoperini » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 1:42 PM UTC

Windows Photos is having a hard time despite my strong specs. Any alternative to use aside from browsers?

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

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Post by LeonM » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 1:44 PM UTC

ourmandave wrote: post #7

The image is 9000 x 9000 pixels. Future proofing for my own-it-someday 8K monitor background.

I tried opening the image, but it made my entire laptop unresponsive[1]. So let's hope the graphics manufacturers catch up with the pixel trent before those 8K monitors become mainstream.

[1] On Chrome for MacOS. Granted my macbook is a couple years old, and the Apple graphics drivers are garbage.

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

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Post by phront » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 1:45 PM UTC

Great!

It is interesting, why Google or anybody else have not made a map of Moon just like Googlemap of Earth. Are there some technical problems?

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

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Post by Asooka » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 1:45 PM UTC

sureaboutthis wrote: post #14

wongarsu wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you lose less with a lossless codec

I'm glad you didn't write "loose less".

Well, a lossless codec loses less information and so it's less loose with the pixel data :)

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

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Post by idoco » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 1:45 PM UTC

That's no moon... it's a space station.

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

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Post by cmpb » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 1:46 PM UTC

diegoperini wrote: post #21

Windows Photos is having a hard time despite my strong specs. Any alternative to use aside from browsers?

Irfanview seems to handle it decently well

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

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Post by stetrain » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 1:46 PM UTC

phront wrote: post #23

Great! It is interesting, why Google or anybody else have not made a map of Moon just like Googlemap of Earth. Are there some technical problems?

https://www.google.com/moon/

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

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Post by raphaelj » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 1:47 PM UTC

phront wrote: post #23

Great! It is interesting, why Google or anybody else have not made a map of Moon just like Googlemap of Earth. Are there some technical problems?

They did: https://www.google.com/moon/

Last time I used it, Google Earth provided a 3D view of the Moon and of Mars.

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

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Post by mrep » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 1:48 PM UTC

phront wrote: post #23

Great! It is interesting, why Google or anybody else have not made a map of Moon just like Googlemap of Earth. Are there some technical problems?

You can explore many planets and moons on Google maps: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/google-...

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

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Post by squarefoot » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 1:48 PM UTC

This is so beautiful, thanks! I'll cut some pieces to be used as desktop backgrounds. The southern part of the moon and surrounding space if turned upside down would make a really nice one. BTW, I spent some time zooming around the stars and objects and some of them look rather interesting, at least to a completely astronomy illiterate like me, such as the closest objects to the moon at roughly 2 o' clock.