50,000 Image Composite - Big Ol Moon

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Desktop background fodder. For me, I rotated it and reduced it down to a 20MB or so desktop image, but still really nice.

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/arer0k/i_took_nearly_50000_images_of_the_night_sky_to/

As lots of broken links in the usual reddit chaos, I found it worked from here (warning: 290MB image link follows): http://test.nyy.ca/mosaic.zip

EDIT: For those not sure, normally the light side of this image would be on the right in the Northern hemisphere, and the other way around for those antipodean’s standing upside-down.

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Good grief…looking at the edges of the moon is awesome. What a stunning composite…

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Is that a very large plateau in the upper half just left of center?

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Here maybe? Mare Serenitatis - Wikipedia

Between the Apollo 15 and 17 landings. Nice map here:

https://www.google.com/moon/

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That’s awesome FF!

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Not to be an alarmist but…has anyone else noticed what happens when you zoom in a bit…

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…should we be concerned? :open_mouth:

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That’s no moon!

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OK…I can see that…but how does it look if you are standing on the equator? :thinking: I guess you can stand either way…you are essentially looking straight up…or it may have something to do with the Earth’s inclination…need to Google the @#$# out of this. :neutral_face: