Making good use of the clear night skies in Arizona, where he recently moved, astronomy buff Andrew McCarthy sets up his telescope camera in his backyard to take spectacular shots of the moon. After the pandemic halted his career working for a tech startup, the digital artist/photographer struck out to turn his passion into a business creating astronomical artwork, which he characterizes as a blend of “scientific communication” and “art” coupled with social media—he now sells his prints for a living. His recently released work “Moon in Exaggerated Relief” is an exemplary showcase of his talent. In this highly textured, breathtakingly detailed rendering of our lunar satellite—the moon—he merges 200,000 photos, with the help of CGI digital software, to recreate the celestial sphere but with exaggerated features, showing off every pit and crater of the lunar surface. In this painstakingly modeled moon, McCarthy used lunar elevation data provided by NASA to …