16-Year-Old Creates Incredible Image of the Moon Using 50,000 Photos: ‘It Almost Killed My Laptop’

16-Year-Old Creates Incredible Image of the Moon Using 50,000 Photos: ‘It Almost Killed My Laptop’
Courtesy of Prathamesh Jaju
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An incredibly detailed image of the Moon was composed by an Indian teen, who captured 55,000 images—racking up over 186 gigabytes on his laptop in the process—for a pastiche of celestial proportions.

Sixteen-year-old Prathamesh Jaju from Pune, Maharashtra, shared his HDR (high-dynamic range) image of a waning crescent moon on Instagram. He admitted that amassing so many photos for his most detailed and clearest picture to date put his technology to the test. “[It] almost killed my laptop with the processing,” he said.