Astrophotographer Captures ‘The World’s Clearest Picture Of The Moon’s Craters’

He shared a post on his Instagram @cosmic_background account explaining the project he had been working on: “This moon might look a little funny to you, and that’s because it is an impossible scene.” “From two weeks of images of the waxing moon, I took the section of the picture that has the most contrast (right before the lunar terminator where shadows are the longest), aligned and blended them to show the rich texture across the entire surface.” He also added: “This was exhausting to say the least, namely because the moon doesn’t line up day over day, so each image had to be mapped to a 3D sphere and adjusted to make sure each image aligned.”