'Clearest pic of moon' captured by 16-year-old Pune boy wins internet, goes viral
Stunning photographs of the Moon, painstakingly shot by a 16-year schoolboy from Pune have gone viral on social media platforms.
(Photo: Instagram/prathameshjaju, ANI)
Updated: May 19, 2021, 10:10 PM IST
Stunning photographs of the Moon, painstakingly shot by a 16-year schoolboy from Pune have gone viral on social media platforms and earning him accolades from all over, on Wednesday.
The lad, Prathamesh Jaju is also an amateur astronomer and astrophotographer, studying in Pune's Vidya Bhavan High School in Class X.
Last fortnight, 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.