~ Happy 55 years Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing ~
We are having some lovely clear weather at the moment and last night was just beautiful with the full Moon rising in the evening sky. I’ve taken these images with the little Seestar S50 telescope and it was just so east to set up :-)
With a bit of contrast in processing you can see the colours of the minerals on the Moon’s surface very clearly, with the brown colour being iron rich areas and blue areas being titanium rich especially around the Sea of Tranquillity.
I captured 20 images and stacked them in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.
To find out more about the minerals on the Moon go to the NASA link below, this is excellent for teachers, students and anybody who has an interest in the lunar surface.
https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/interaction/lmdp/documents/58199main_exploring_the_moon.pdf
JPL Photo Journal - PIA00131: Moon - False Color Mosaic
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00131
We are having some lovely clear weather at the moment and last night was just beautiful with the full Moon rising in the evening sky. I’ve taken these images with the little Seestar S50 telescope and it was just so east to set up :-)
With a bit of contrast in processing you can see the colours of the minerals on the Moon’s surface very clearly, with the brown colour being iron rich areas and blue areas being titanium rich especially around the Sea of Tranquillity.
I captured 20 images and stacked them in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.
To find out more about the minerals on the Moon go to the NASA link below, this is excellent for teachers, students and anybody who has an interest in the lunar surface.
https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/interaction/lmdp/documents/58199main_exploring_the_moon.pdf
JPL Photo Journal - PIA00131: Moon - False Color Mosaic
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00131
Original Caption Released with Image:
This false-color mosaic was constructed from a series of 53 images taken through three spectral filters by Galileo's imaging system as the spacecraft flew over the northern regions of the Moon on December 7, 1992. The part of the Moon visible from Earth is on the left side in this view. The color mosaic shows compositional variations in parts of the Moon's northern hemisphere. Bright pinkish areas are highlands materials, such as those surrounding the oval lava-filled Crisium impact basin toward the bottom of the picture.
Blue to orange shades indicate volcanic lava flows. To the left of Crisium, the dark blue Mare Tranquillitatis is richer in titanium than the green and orange maria above it. Thin mineral-rich soils associated with relatively recent impacts are represented by light blue colors; the youngest craters have prominent blue rays extending from them. The Galileo project, whose primary mission is the exploration of the Jupiter system in 1995-97, is managed for NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
This false-color mosaic was constructed from a series of 53 images taken through three spectral filters by Galileo's imaging system as the spacecraft flew over the northern regions of the Moon on December 7, 1992. The part of the Moon visible from Earth is on the left side in this view. The color mosaic shows compositional variations in parts of the Moon's northern hemisphere. Bright pinkish areas are highlands materials, such as those surrounding the oval lava-filled Crisium impact basin toward the bottom of the picture.
Blue to orange shades indicate volcanic lava flows. To the left of Crisium, the dark blue Mare Tranquillitatis is richer in titanium than the green and orange maria above it. Thin mineral-rich soils associated with relatively recent impacts are represented by light blue colors; the youngest craters have prominent blue rays extending from them. The Galileo project, whose primary mission is the exploration of the Jupiter system in 1995-97, is managed for NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL
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