

To capture all of the color and details on the moon's surface, Andrew McCarthy and Connor Matherne focused on different aspects of the shoot. Matherne, who prefers to shoot deep space photos, specializes in colors. McCarthy said he specializes in detailed photographs, taking tens of thousands of photos to capture the geographical features on the moon's surface. "The whole thing is assembled like a mosaic, and each tile is made up of thousands of photos." "When he and I put our heads together we were able to make something a little off brand for both of us, which is cool," McCarthy told NPR. After recognizing one another's strengths in photography, they decided to team up for a photoshoot of Earth's moon. The two stargazers first connected over Reddit and then Instagram, sharing and commenting on each other's work over the past three or four years.

Their finished product was posted online Saturday, and is currently gaining lots of attention on Reddit. Two astrophotographers have teamed up to produce an out-of-this-world photo of the moon, capturing over 200,000 shots to create a single image.Īndrew McCarthy and Connor Matherne collaborated last November to push their photography skills to the limit. It's comprised of more than 200,000 shots pieced together to make a single photograph. It took astrophotographers Andrew McCarthy and Connor Matherne over nine months to edit their final image.
