Most clear image of moon clicked by a 16 year old!!...

 

'Clearest pic of moon' captured by 16-year-old Pune boy wins internet, goes viral

Prathmesh Jaju is an amateur astronomer and astrophotographer, studying in Pune in Vidya Bhawan High School in class X.

On May 3, he shot around 50,000 pictures and stitched them together to get the clearest and sharpest image of the moon from 1 am-5 am, and then spent another 40 hours processing them for the outstanding results. "The reason behind the 50,000 pictures was to get the clearest picture of the Moon. I stitched them together and sharpened the images to see crisp details of the Moon," he said in his social media posts.

On one of his social media sites, he has uploaded the photo and explained: "Last Quarter Mineral Moon. This image is an HDR Composite of two different images made to give it a 3-dimensional effect. This is my most detailed and clearest shot of the third quarter Mineral Moon. I captured around 50,000+ images over 186 Gigabytes of data which almost killed my laptop with the processing."

"Our eyes cannot resolute the colors of the minerals on the moon. The blue tones reveal areas rich in ilmenite which contains iron, titanium and oxygen. While the orange and purple colors show regions relatively poor in titanium and iron. The white/grey tomes refer to areas of greater exposure to sunlight," Jaju wrote on social media while describing his captured image of the moon.

Asked about how he got the idea to do such a thing, the teenager told news agency ANI, "I read some articles and saw some YouTube videos to learn how to capture these images. I learned the processing."

Actively connected with the Jyotirvidya Parisanstha - the oldest amateur astronomers' association in India - Prathmesh said he captured around 38 panels at 1500mm and 3000mm focal length with a 1.2 megapixel.

Sharing about his future aspirations, the teenager said, "I want to become an astrophysicist and study astronomy professionally but astrophotography is just a hobby for me right now."