All images in this article were taken by Andrew McCarthy, check out his Instagram here for more amazing images!
We have photographs of the moon but none of them compare to this one! The moon holds extreme detail but most of the time that in itself is not something we can capture with a camera, however, it seems things are changing.
According to The Sun, an astrophotographer by the name of Andrew McCarthy was the one to take this photograph, and well, it’s not just one photograph at all. It’s actually thousands of photographs stacked together to make up all the details we otherwise would not be seeing. In this photograph, you can see the craters and really get a good look at the big light in the night sky we tend to stare at from time to time.
As you can see below, this photograph is something truly mind-blowing. Not only does it knock most off their feet but it really opens our eyes to so much more. The moon isn’t anywhere near as smooth as it seems to be by simply looking at it with your naked eyes.
(Credit: Andrew McCarthy)
Daily Mail wrote as follows about this photograph:
The lunar terminator or ‘twilight zone’ is the line between light and dark side of the moon.
The sun is closer to the horizon in the terminator, creating long shadows which give the surface a three-dimensional appearance.
These shadows make the moon’s surface clearer and features like craters more noticeable.
According to NASA, many craters appear near the terminator because their height makes them easier to discern there.
This is just like the line of light and dark on Earth, making shadows lengthen when the sun is low in the sky.
But unlike the Moon’s well-defined terminators, the ones on Earth appear fuzzy and diffused – leading to dawn and dusk – which is due to the differences in atmosphere.
McCarthy takes tons of amazing photographs with the technology in his care and all of them are just as mind-blowing as you’d expect. To see more of his work check out his Instagram by clicking here. I could not keep myself from scrolling through his work, it is like nothing I’ve ever seen before.
All images in this article were taken by Andrew McCarthy, check out his Instagram here for more amazing images!