Astrophotographer Andrew McCartney took thousands of images of the Moon and created an incredibly detailed picture of the Earth’s natural satellite.

McCartney photographed the rising moon with a telescope, which he placed in the yard of his house. As a result, McCarthy made 20,000 photos and then began to combine them into one photograph.

“For two weeks, I photographed the moon, and then I took the most contrasting photos, processed them, and mixed them to show the different surface structure of our natural satellite. It was very difficult … “, – said Andrew McCartney.

As a result, the photographer obtained an incredible picture that reveals the crater nature of the Moon and shows surface defects that have occurred over the past 4.5 billion years.