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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 Cthulhu_ »

stronglikedan wrote: post #43
nakedrobot2 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

bittorrent is the smartest way to share any file that's being viewed by lots of people at the same time. I am continually amazed why it's not used more often. edit: i a word

Possibly the lack of adoption for native browser support.

IIRC Opera used to have support for it at some point.

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

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Post by mankyd »

omilu wrote: post #50

Is the haze around the moon sun light scattering because of moon dust?

Not sure, but that's unlikely. Remember, the moon has no atmosphere, so there's nothing really to either kick-up nor suspend the dust in.

Any dust that did get kicked up (by meteorites?) would settle back down relatively quickly.

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

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Post by Quoh3veB »

LeonM wrote: post #22
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.

Try firefox, it has an integrated decoder-downscaler, i.e. it never has to keep the full-size image in memory before downscaling to the target resolution. But that does not help if you zoom to 1:1.

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

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Post by jcurbo »

omilu wrote: post #50

Is the haze around the moon sun light scattering because of moon dust?

No, it's partially artistic, partially light scattering in the Earth's atmosphere from the moonlight and the exposure settings he used. The moon does have a very tenuous atmosphere but nothing thick enough to cause this effect.

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 »

jessriedel wrote: post #34
raphaelj wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They did: https://www.google.com/moon/ Last time I used it, Google Earth provided a 3D view of the Moon and of Mars.

It's too bad they haven't updated this to act like the modern version of Google Maps. It's like going back in time to the old HTML version.

That's because you aren't using the maps version: https://www.google.com/maps/space/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 Ajedi32 »

raphaelj wrote: post #28
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.

The UI in that link looks really old. If you want the more modern, 3D view, I'd recommend going to maps.google.com, switching to satellite view, and zooming out.

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

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Post by StreamBright »

stronglikedan wrote: post #43
nakedrobot2 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

bittorrent is the smartest way to share any file that's being viewed by lots of people at the same time. I am continually amazed why it's not used more often. edit: i a word

Possibly the lack of adoption for native browser support.

More like the lack of possibility of injecting ads and collecting data while using BT.

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

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Post by nullinson »

stronglikedan wrote: post #43
nakedrobot2 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

bittorrent is the smartest way to share any file that's being viewed by lots of people at the same time. I am continually amazed why it's not used more often. edit: i a word

Possibly the lack of adoption for native browser support.

Brave browser has a built in torrent client, IIRC.
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