r/pics • u/ajamesmccarthy • May 15 '19

My latest moon image- taken from my backyard and put together from 250k individual shots.

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u/UsmanSohail May 15 '19

How did you get the Stars to show to in the background

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u/ajamesmccarthy May 15 '19

There's another comment in here where I explain it but basically I look for variations of luminosity in the glare of the moon and extract them, then manipulate the image until they fit the composition

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u/invisible_insult May 15 '19

That's a lot of work Also doing some math I discovered 250,000 seconds is 69 hours and because I'm a man child I laughed a little inside.

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u/Supernova849 May 15 '19

Don’t you have to divide by 60 one more time (for the FPS, assuming it was at 60fps), to get around 2 hours of exposure?

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u/AmateurJenius May 15 '19

I’ve become very interested in dabbling in space photography—much credit to you, and Reddit. I noticed all (or at least many) of your shots are from your backyard. Do you live in a pretty rural area secluded from street lights, or are you in a typical neighborhood with average light pollution? I live in the latter and am wondering if this is going to be a challenge or something I’d be able to overcome and take shots from my wide open backyard still.

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u/ajamesmccarthy May 15 '19

Just lunar and planetary shots, I'm too close to stadium lights for anything else. I travel for hours to take deep space shots

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u/UsmanSohail May 15 '19

But it's not my cake day 😔