16 year old, Prathamesh Jaju, from Pune has gone viral on social media for his sedulous shot of the Moon.
An amateur astronomer and astrophotographer Prathamesh is being praised for capturing one of the clearest pictures of the Moon.
For this incredibly detailed snapshot of the Moon, he took more than 50,000 photos of the third quarter Mineral Moon and stitched them together which took him a day and a half to process.
“The reason behind the 50,000 pictures was to get the clearest picture of the Moon. I stitched them together and sharpened the images to see crisp details of the Moon,” he said in his social media posts.
Asked about how he got the idea to do such a thing, the teenager told news agency ANI, “I read some articles and saw some YouTube videos to learn how to capture these images. I learned the processing.”
Take a look at the picture –
Jaju is a student of Class 10 in Vidya Bhavan School, Pune. His father runs a computer sales and repairing business while his mother is a housewife. Besides photography, Jaju likes athletics. He even participated in one national competition in athletics.
Sharing about his future aspirations, the teenager said, “I want to become an astrophysicist and study astronomy professionally but astrophotography is just a hobby for me right now.”
