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Photographer snaps ‘most detailed’ image of the moon’s surface

Photographer snaps ‘most detailed’ image of the moon’s surface
Photographer snaps ‘most detailed’ image of the moon’s surface
McCarthy made the image using thousands of composite photos (Photo: SWNS)

Could this be one of the most detailed moon photos ever created?

Lunar photographer Andrew McCarthy, who took the image, certainly seems to think so.

McCarthy uses compositions of thousands of individual photos to showcase the lunar surface in extreme detail.

Each photo is from a different phase of the lunar cycle, which allows for every inch of the moon’s surface to be visible.

A composite picture of the moon made up from thousands of images taken at different moon phases to capture every detail. Astro photographer Andrew McCarthy claims its the world's cleares ever picture of the moon. See SWNS copy SWCAmoon: A lunar photographer claims to have captured one the most detailed and intricate images of the moon ever. Andrew McCarthy stays up through most of the night to capture his incredible images, which he creates by stacking thousands of images together. And in this amazing shot, he stitched together thousands of individual photos of the moon to show its dazzling surface in the most incredible detail ever.
The photo isn’t from any one snapshot of the moon (Photo: SWNS)
The ISS passes near the moon. A composite picture of the moon made up from thousands of images taken at different moon phases to capture every detail. Astro photographer Andrew McCarthy claims its the world's cleares ever picture of the moon. See SWNS copy SWCAmoon: A lunar photographer claims to have captured one the most detailed and intricate images of the moon ever. Andrew McCarthy stays up through most of the night to capture his incredible images, which he creates by stacking thousands of images together. And in this amazing shot, he stitched together thousands of individual photos of the moon to show its dazzling surface in the most incredible detail ever.
You can see the ISS in the photo (Photo: SWNS)

In the image, you can see the pitted and mottled surface of half of the moon, with the tiny dot of the International Space Station (ISS) flying past in the darkness of space.

McCarthy, from California, said: ‘This is one of my highest quality images produced in terms of clarity, so I am quite proud of it.

‘Right down the street from my house, on the sidewalk.

A composite picture of the moon made up from thousands of images taken at different moon phases to capture every detail. Astro photographer Andrew McCarthy claims its the world's cleares ever picture of the moon. See SWNS copy SWCAmoon: A lunar photographer claims to have captured one the most detailed and intricate images of the moon ever. Andrew McCarthy stays up through most of the night to capture his incredible images, which he creates by stacking thousands of images together. And in this amazing shot, he stitched together thousands of individual photos of the moon to show its dazzling surface in the most incredible detail ever.
Will we visit the moon in our lifetime? (Photo: SWNS)
A composite picture of the moon made up from thousands of images taken at different moon phases to capture every detail. Astro photographer Andrew McCarthy claims its the world's cleares ever picture of the moon. See SWNS copy SWCAmoon: A lunar photographer claims to have captured one the most detailed and intricate images of the moon ever. Andrew McCarthy stays up through most of the night to capture his incredible images, which he creates by stacking thousands of images together. And in this amazing shot, he stitched together thousands of individual photos of the moon to show its dazzling surface in the most incredible detail ever.
The photo gives an enormous level of detail (Photo: SWNS)

‘This was captured shortly after my shot of the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction.

‘The conditions were particularly good that night, so after shooting the planets I turned my telescope towards the moon to create this composite, made from thousands of individual images.’