Inventive snapper creates stunning moon photos by combining 50,000 photos

A cameraman has taken backyard photography of the night sky to the next level by creating a stunningly clear image of the moon that combines 50,000 separate snaps. Andrew McCarthy, from Elk Grove, California, took the stunning 81 megapixel shot that shows half the moon shrouded in darkness while the other is illuminated. Rather than using high-tech equipment costing tens of thousands, Andrew simply used two regular cameras to capture the different parts of the moon, then stitch them together using computer software. The final image is a whopping 81 megapixels in size - around three times higher resolution than found in cutting edge 8K TV sets - because of this unique approach. Two regular cameras caught different parts of the moon. Sections of the moon were captured in what Mr McCarthy calls'tiles' - images stitched together using Photoshop - before the best and clearest shots were chosen, averaging out factors like blurring.