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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 #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)

Also, I can't remember the source (maybe it was a "What If?"), but I seem to recall that it's actually to create a lens that allows us to focus a point on the moon to allow us to make out current man-made items on the surface of the moon.

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

#82
post #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

This is very cool. I've never used this site before!

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

#83
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you have an nvidia card in your Mac, they make drivers available which work well.

I do have an nvidia card, but since MacOS 10.14 the nvidia driver manager reports that my driver (387.10.10.10.40.105) is not compatible with my OS, and it also reports that there are no newer drivers available when using the update function. So I'm currently back at the default Apple driver.

I have ran the nvidia driver before MacOS 10.14, and it did feel slightly faster than the driver supplied by Apple. I doubt if it will improve opening an 8K*8K image in a browser though...

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

#84
post #11

This is great; as another pointer, http://clarkvision.com is my go-to source for beautiful astrophotography with technical explanations. Look for astro gallery and tutorials if interested

A quick word of caution. For anyone who might be interested in astrophotography I really wouldn't recommend any of the tutorials on the clark-vision site. This is what the co-author of an astronomical image processing program had to say about them: http://forum.startools.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=912 "The "articles" exhibit a litany of errors, nonsense and misunderstandings of how some basic algorithms and mathematical…

This can definitely be true and I personally find that the writing style of Clark's tutorials could use some polish -- his random switches between scientific and colloquial styles within a single tutorial can annoy both engineers and artists. I also heard that he does not like debate that he deems repetitive and is not be the friendliest opponent to his critics.

That said, the criticism above is very scarce on details. What exactly is the nonsense about mathematical concepts that he is objecting to? Roger's data describe his metrics, methodology, data and conclusions (not to the level required to publish in Nature, but better than most websites on the topic). One can argue with either or all of those, but such arguments should include the rigor at least to the level used on Clark's site.

That way we can understand what are some reasonable simplifications that are OK even if not strictly correct (e.g., when we tell middle school kids that equation x^2 = -1 has no solutions without into complex numbers or axioms of R) and which are genuine, major errors.

But the strongest argument going for Clark, IMO, is his stunning pictures. If his methods describe how he produced them, I am interested in reading more. My 2c, corrections welcome.

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

#85
post #22

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.

I don't have too great a desktop (i5 from more than 4 years ago (launch date was apparently 2011) and 16 gigs with more than half already used, no graphics card) and I could open the 291M file just fine in viewnior.

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

#86
post #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

updated mosaic.png seemed to not be a good long term name. On my local I changed it to "Moon 50,000 Image Composite by A James McCarthy 2019.png"

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

#87
post #72
post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. This photo (well, photos) is taken from the bottom of an air sea, which is where the scattering happens.

Are you referring to Earth's atmosphere as an air sea? Is that an actual term being used? I couldn't find anything about this term in a quick ddg search.

It’s just a poetic expression I borrowed from somewhere (the original was in another language). The sibling commenter is right, ”ocean of air” is probably more commonly used in English.

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

#89
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can download/share via webtorrent https://instant.io/#4f9178e5e89d5ec55fb3345d8f52627c23d39ce9

This is very cool. I've never used this site before!

You might also be interesting in file.pizza. Very useful. The webtorrent ecosystem in general is very cool tech.

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

#90
Becausr the full-res version links went down often yesterday, I'm hosting it on my IPFS node, here's the link (for those on IPFS, if you can afford the bandwidth please pin it to spread the load :) ) https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmVLTMHtLRhnft3QspDx4qTJeXY6hiib1j77UfQ...

Also made it available in torrent form (with the IPFS URL as a web seed) http://www.urlhash.com/124410/mosaic.png.torrent

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