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Kaaba’s Black Stone in Makkah seen in first time in 49,000 megapixel image

Kaaba’s Black Stone in Makkah seen in first time in 49,000 megapixel image
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Makkah, May 05: Specially processed high-resolution images have been captured of the Black Stone, the ancient rock set into the corner of the Kaaba in Makkah, the centre of the holiest site in Islam.

The official account of the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque said it documented the Black Stone “with Focus Stack Panorama, which uses a technology in which images are combined with [different] clarity, in order to produce a single image with the greatest accuracy”.

The Black Stone, or Hajar Al Aswad in Arabic, was placed by the Prophet Mohammed in the Kaaba in 605 CE.

Photo stacking is a process of stitching hundreds of images taken of different parts of the subject at different focal lengths together to create a single shot in high resolution. It is often used to create detailed landscapes and close-up macro shots.

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Shot over seven hours, it took the team another 50 hours to combine the 1,050 photos to produce the 49,000-megapixel image. For comparison, an iPhone 12 has a 12-megapixel camera.

The Black Stone comprises eight small rocks affixed to a large stone that is encased in a silver frame.

The Black Stone marks the point from which the circumambulation begins and ends for tawaf, the ritual where pilgrims go around the Kaaba seven times anticlockwise to complete the Hajj or Umrah pilgrimage.

Pictures of the Black Stone took the internet by storm as hashtag #BlackStone trended on Twitter in Saudi Arabia and people shared the never-seen-before pictures of the stone, which is deemed sacred by Muslims owing to its rich history. (The National)

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