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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

#63

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

Is it just me or are 4k monitors running in 1080p worse than straight 1080p monitors?

Well they're usually bigger. IMHO 1080p for monitors maxes out at about 22-24" before it starts to look blurry, after that you want 1440p, until about 28", which is when 4k starts to make sense.

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

#65

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

This makes me lose my shit every time I want to see a simple jpg image in Windows 10. WHY?? Even my 14 year old linux laptop can open 100+ MB images faster than W10.

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

#66
post #61

Is the resolution high enough to see any man made stuff?

Not even close. (81 megapixels is 9000 by 9000, and the moon only takes up about the middle 1/9th of the image, so it's about 3000 pixels across. So that's over a km per pixel at the very front of the moon, and even worse at the edges where the surface is at an oblique angle to our view)

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

#67
post #20

All the download links are down at the moment. Here's a torrent link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:j6ixrzpitvpmkx5tgroy6utcpqr5hhhj&dn=updated%20mosaic.png&xl=304863698&fc=1

This link works now. File is 291 MB

https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1lGDV6jOHc0v5UdkxcqYShqhKBz_U...

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

#68
post #20

All the download links are down at the moment. Here's a torrent link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:j6ixrzpitvpmkx5tgroy6utcpqr5hhhj&dn=updated%20mosaic.png&xl=304863698&fc=1

You can download/share via webtorrent

https://instant.io/#4f9178e5e89d5ec55fb3345d8f52627c23d39ce9

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

#69
post #20

All the download links are down at the moment. Here's a torrent link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:j6ixrzpitvpmkx5tgroy6utcpqr5hhhj&dn=updated%20mosaic.png&xl=304863698&fc=1

PSA: Update your Transmission. A good chunk of you are running 2.92, which is susceptible to CVE-2018-5702[0] (which allows basically anyone to write arbitrary files to your computer from a webpage).

Also, cool trackerless magnet link, worked a treat.

[0]: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5702

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

#70
post #20

All the download links are down at the moment. Here's a torrent link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:j6ixrzpitvpmkx5tgroy6utcpqr5hhhj&dn=updated%20mosaic.png&xl=304863698&fc=1

PSA: Update your Transmission. A good chunk of you are running 2.92, which is susceptible to CVE-2018-5702[0] (which allows basically anyone to write arbitrary files to your computer from a webpage). Also, cool trackerless magnet link, worked a treat. [0]: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5702

Many might be running the version from Debian stable, which has fixed this bug:

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4087

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