16-year-old Pune boy captures the clearest pic of Moon by processing 50,000 images. Viral
16-year-old Pune boy captures the clearest pic of Moon by processing 50,000 images. Viral
A 16-year-old boy from Pune is making headlines for capturing the most stunning and clearest picture of the Moon by stitching together over 50,000 pictures.
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UPDATED: May 19, 2021 16:07 IST
Prathamesh Jaju has gone viral on social media by clicking one of the clearest pictures of moon Photo: ANI, Instagram/prathameshjaju
A 16-year-old boy from Pune in Maharashtra has gone viral on social media for capturing one of the most beautiful and detailed images of the Moon. He created the three-dimensional shot by composting more than 50,000 images, which was over 186 GigaBytes of data that almost killed his laptop during the processing.
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 imag