The Finished Image

You can view the finished image below. Hover over the image and use your mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out. Click and drag to move around the Moon. Alternatively, use the zoom controls in the bottom right-hand corner of the image. There is also a full-screen button.

"The moon image is fantastic. It brings back a lot of memories. What an incredible team effort. It reminds me of the same team effort that was Apollo. Everyone working for a common goal which resulted in the successful landing of Apollo 11 and five more landings. Congratulations!!!"

Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 Lunar Module Pilot
Photo © NASA

The image is displayed using Microsoft Deep Zoom and Seadragon technology, which loads the image in real-time as you zoom. On slower internet connections, it may take a few seconds after you zoom in for the full detail to be downloaded.

This image has been verified by Guinness World Records as setting a new record for the world's largest ground-based digital lunar mosaic. It contains 288 separate high resolution panes, painstakingly stitched and matched together to form a seamless image. All the panes were shot during a single night to ensure that the Moon is at the same phase across the image, and despite difficult conditions on the night, the angular (detail) resolution is, as you can see by zooming in, incredibly high.