天文摄影师创造了有史以来最清晰的月球图像

天文摄影师创造了有史以来最清晰的月球图像

The “world’s clearest picture of the moon’s craters” has been revealed.

“世界上最清晰的月球陨石坑照片”已经揭晓。

The stunning image is courtesy of a Californian astrophotographer who combined snaps of “lunar phases” to create it.

这张令人惊叹的照片是由一位加利福尼亚的天文摄影师拍摄的，他将“月相”的快照结合在一起创造出来的。

Andrew McCarthy stacked thousands of Moon photos together to create the masterpiece.

安德鲁·麦卡锡将数千张月球照片叠加在一起，创造了这幅杰作。

He took two weeks worth of images of the waxing Moon because this is a time when the amount of visible illuminated surfaces increase.

他拍摄了两周的上弦月图像，因为这是一个可见光照表面数量增加的时期。

This increased light and good positioning of the ‘lunar terminator’ – the line between light and dark sides of the Moon – has made the craters look more pronounced.

这种增加的光线和“月球明暗界线”的良好定位，使得这些陨石坑看起来更加明显。“月球明暗界线”指的是月球亮面和暗面之间的界线。

It’s also said to make them look elongated.

据说还能使它们看起来拉长。

McCarthy has called the snap “All Terminator” and described it as a “beast of a project.”

麦卡锡称该快照为“全终结者”，并将其描述为“一个项目的野兽”。

He wrote on his Instagram @cosmic_background: “This moon might look a little funny to you, and that’s because it is an impossible scene.”

他在自己的Instagram@cosmic_background上写道：“你可能觉得这个月亮有点滑稽，那是因为它是一个不可能出现的场景。”

“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.”

“从两周的上弦月图像中，我把对比度最高的部分(就在阴影最长的月球明暗分界线之前)对齐并混合，以显示整个表面的丰富纹理。”

He 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.”

他补充道：“至少可以说，这是令人筋疲力尽的，也就是说，因为月球并没有日复一日地排成直线出现，所以每幅图像都必须先映射到一个三维球体上，然后进行调整，以确保每幅图像都能对齐。”

Luckily for us, he might try to create another image if he gets good feedback.

幸运的是，如果得到好的反馈，他可能会尝试创造下一个。