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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?
Windows Photos is having a hard time despite my strong specs. Any alternative to use aside from browsers?
Anyone knows of a GPU accelerated Linux image viewer?
As an amateur astronomer who has looked directly at the moon through a telescope hundreds of times, this photo looks strange and artificial, though I know it's not. I pondered why this was for a bit, and came to the conclusion that its otherworldly quality is actually due to being superior to what one can see directly. At any one moment, direct observation will have artifacts of the air moving between you and the tar…
No no, it is strange and artificial. The stars are comped in from something else, and the moonglow looks like a gaussian blur. Still, it's pretty, and has hopefully inspired people to go stare at the moon. To be fair, most astrophotography is "enhanced" one way or another - I can spend hours screwing around with a single DSO shot after stacking. Here's a quick and dirty 30 second reconstruction using a shot of the mo…
I made a similar comment about the moonglow, but thinking a bit I think it's a combination of: - Higher dynamic range than the human eye (combination of stars, moonglow, and high contrast lunar surface both in shadow and in sunlight) - High resolution imaging, and the digital signal processing aspect (noise reduction, deconvolution, etc.)
They combine to make something that looks kinda like reality but is really a mix, and maybe triggers a little bit of the uncanny valley effect.
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For images of a moderate size such as this one, viewing it on a regular image viewer is less of a hassle.
Such as? I didn't see any example of that in the comment threads.
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
https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmVLTMHtLRhnft3QspDx4qTJeXY...
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
Alternatively, if you have a slower connection I made a lossless webp here which should result in the same output at about 1/10th the size: http://files.jjcm.org/mosaic.webp
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.
