URL copied '50,000 photos, 40 hours': How 16-year-old boy captured 'clearest' moon pic A 16-year-old claims to have captured the "clearest" picture of the last quarter mineral Moon. It took him nearly 40 hours to process about 50,000 photos. Pune-based Prathamesh Jaju, who became an internet sensation after his picture went viral, calls himself an "amateur astronomer". Speaking to news agency ANI, Prathamesh said that he captured the image on May 3 at 1 am. "I captured for around 4 hours with videos and images. It took 38-40 hours for processing. The reason behind 50,000 pictures was to get clearest picture of moon. I stitched them together and sharpened image to see crisp details of moon," he said.Â