Prathamesh Jaju is an Indian teenager who calls himself an amateur astronomer and astrophotographer. He rose to fame after a photo of the moon he took went viral on the Internet. The photo was a composite of more than 50,000 photos and contained more than 186 GB of data.
Wiki/Biography
Prathamesh Jaju was born in 2005 (16 years old in 2021) in Pune, Maharashtra. He completed his 10th grade studies from Vidya Bhavan High School, Pune, during the lockdown imposed in Maharashtra due to the increasing number of COVID cases. Prathamesh is a keen astrophotographer and owns several high-end telescopes and cameras to pursue his hobby.
appearance
Height (approximate): 5′ 8″
Eye color: Black
Hair color: Black
Facts/Trivia
- Prathamesh Jaju started astrophotography as a hobby in 2018 and couldn’t believe that his photos had gone viral. In an interview, he said:
I didn’t expect my moon photo to go viral, but it’s definitely my best photo yet.”
Moon by Prathamesh Jaju
- Prathamesh Jaju has been passionate about space since childhood and is a big fan of the sci-fi movies/TV series Star Trek and Star Wars.
- At the age of 13, Pratamesh joined Jyotirvidya Parisanstha (JVP), India’s oldest amateur astronomy club. JVP is a non-governmental organization that offers courses in astronomy and astrophotography. They also hold stargazing events to help students better understand the sky.
Prathamesh Jaju attempts to capture the night sky with his device
- Before his moon photos went viral, Jaju’s photos of planets like Mars and Jupiter had been reposted by several other astrophotography-related accounts.
Photos of Jupiter taken by Prathamesh Jaju
- It took Prathamesh four hours to capture this photo of the moon and another three days to shoot and edit it. Jaju uploaded the photo with the caption:
This image is an HDR composite of two different images to give it a three-dimensional effect. This is the most detailed and sharpest image I have taken of a third quarter mineral moon… I took about 50,000+ images, over 186 GB of data, and nearly destroyed my laptop in the processing.”
- In an interview with ANI, he explained the process of taking these photos. In the interview, he said:
I first captured them (the images) by taking multiple videos of different small areas of the Moon. Each video contains about 2000 frames; first we stabilize them, then we merge and stack each video into one picture. So I took about 38 videos. Now we have 38 pictures. ”
- In the interview, Prathamesh further added that he wants to become an astrophysicist and major in astronomy and astrophotography is just a hobby for him.
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