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http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/a-half-gigabyte-view-ofthemoon/

I had this bookmarked for the longest time, since 2011. I do keep a copy on my HDD's. I find this image in the radical list of things.

BEWARE:
If downloaded and opened, make sure your system can handle it. The 500MB image is very resource intensive.

I got 8gig of high performance ram and it eats every little bit opening this image.

https://i.imgur.com/cuhvWYN.jpg

can you post a thumbnail?  :)

Yeah I've seen it a while ago, my laptop didn't like it, I used my desktop to view it in all it glory

Done. Updated OP.


lol

Tried to open it in my system. It doesn't even opens. Seems that I might need to split the image in to smaller parts and then open them. Anyway... it is amazing... at this resolution.

Seems I need to open it on my 14 GB RAM VPS.Not gonna work on my Laptop.

I got 32GB of RAM , just waiting for it to download and see whats special in it .

Yeah do tell us if you find some aliens there.. ! the chances or on lower side as compared to mars but give it a shot, you might find something worth taking a note..!

Yes , I am curious about 500MB size of the  image . I wonder if there are any this much size images of other planets as well. Looks like will have to use some Google Fu skills .

I'd love to see more as well. Also, I'd have to hook up to a 40-80" screen HD tv to really enjoy the image/images as 1280x1024 monitor SUCKS.

Even 1080p monitor sucks for this kind of image. Agree about the 80" screen TV.

What sort of computer (ram/cpu) are we talking about if I want to view/scroll/zoom this 24,000 x 24,000 image?

Here is a 1400 x 1400 version if anyone is interested:
http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/uploads/lroc_wac_nearside_noslew.png

Ultra-HD will be able to do justice to this image.

Is it a 4k resolution?

Where is a link to the full download?

http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/data/pr/tiff/wac_nearside.tif

Thanks, what opens .tif?

My windows photo viewer does that is supplied in windows7. Dunno about linux/osx.

Opened fine with 128GB RAM Mac Pro Octa Core

I think u need at least 64GB for this beast

Our dna sequencer routinely takes multiple 1/2 gig tiffs pictures of illuminated base-pairs every hour ;)

128 GB RAM ? JESUS.

For how long has this been taking pictures? Could imagine you got Petabyte servers?

Challenge accepted: I'm 25 and roughly 3 months = 365*25+90 = 9215 days * 24 h = 221160 h * 500mb (assuming it takes only 1 picture, I know it's not) = 110580000 MB / 1000 = 110580GB / 1000 = 110,58 PB

The sequencing is finished in 2 - 3 days. The images are analyzed on the fly and the illuminated spots are converted into text files like "GATTACA" and images are then deleted.
e.g. http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/hg19/chromosomes/

here read this pdf for how the sequencer works. http://lhmg.amu.edu.pl/text/sequencing/Primary%20analysis.pdf

Opened just fine on my 24gb desktop, hmm, maybe it's about bottlenecks, aka if one part in your chain is weak it doesn't open, also what the hell are you doing with 128gb of ram on a Mac Pro, are you doing some UHD video editing because other than that a Mac which such amount of ram is hmm don't know lol, at least on windows server or linux you can use it, as a ram/memory sever >.< or something

That is a nice shot.  Man the moon looks like it has been hit many times by all types of meteors especially in that pic, thanks for sharing.

Never heard of any system having 128 GB RAM. My friend is also having a Mac Pro Octa Core. But his RAM capacity is only 24 GB. Any idea how much does the 128 GB RAM Mac Pro Octa Core costs?