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[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 months ago

They didn't. What they did was take 81,000 images and then filter through, them taking the best images of each region of the Moon and then averaging and compositing those.

It isn't 81k images stitched together. It's 81k images taken in the hopes of getting enough with perfect clarity to create the composite.