Photographer captures 'the most detailed image of the moon's surface ever'

Andrew McCarthy stays up through most of the night to capture his incredible images, which he creates by stacking thousands of images together.

And in this amazing shot, he stitched together thousands of individual photos of the moon to show its dazzling surface in the most incredible detail ever.

The image shows the pitted and mottled surface of half of the moon, with the tiny dot of the International Space Station (ISS) flying past in the darkness of space.

Andrew said: "This is one of my highest quality images produced in terms of clarity, so I am quite proud of it.

"Right down the street from my house.

"This was captured shortly after my shot of the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction.

"The conditions were particularly good that night, so after shooting the planets I turned my telescope towards the moon to create this composite, made from thousands of individual images."