Moon and Sun Among the Stars: Astrophotographer Captures Incredible Eclipse on April 8

It was necessary to combine several thousand photographs, some of which were taken long before this event.

Famous astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy published a stunning image of the total solar eclipse that occurred on April 8. It was visible from North America. According to McCarthy, he captured the event using five cameras.

In just four minutes, while the Moon covered the Sun, he took thousands of frames, which he then combined into a single image with a resolution of 368 megapixels. The solar corona can be seen emerging from behind the silhouette of the Moon, which still showed the outlines of seas even during the eclipse.

The work on the image took several years. Specifically, the stars visible in the image were photographed long before the eclipse, as the light from the corona made it impossible to see them during the event. However, the positioning of the stars accurately reflects their location during the eclipse.

In the comments on the published image, some people expressed doubts about the reality of this spectacle and suggested that the image was created by a neural network. The photographer emphasized that he streamed the process of creating his masterpiece.