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)
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
#82All 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
#83Earlier 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 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
#84This 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…
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
#85The 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
#86All 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
#87Earlier 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.
Re: I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon
#88Re: I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
#90Also made it available in torrent form (with the IPFS URL as a web seed) http://www.urlhash.com/124410/mosaic.png.torrent