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The Moon
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Image Details:
- Camera: Canon Digital Rebel (300D)
- Mount: Celestron AS-GT
- Scope: Celestron C8-N (8" f/5 Newtonian)
- Configuration: Prime Focus
- Additional Optics: Celestron/Baader Multi Purpose Coma Corrector (MPCC)
- Filter: None
- Effective Focal Length: 1000mm
- Effective Focal Ratio: f/5
- Exposure: 10 x 1/90 sec @ ISO 100
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- Date: 8/24/2004, ~8:30pm PDT
- Location: Saratoga, CA, USA
- Acquisition: Manual
- Focus: Manual
- Dithering: None
- Guiding: None
Processing:
- IRIS: Registration, stacking
- Photoshop: Cropping (65%), image size, JPG conversion
Image Description:
This is a colorized version of this moon image, using the technique described in How to capture the color of the Moon. The colors in this image are not invented by processing techniques, though they certainly are accentuated by such techniques. That is, the color is already present, but almost impossible to see under normal circumstances. As the linked article indicates, each color has geological significance, generally indicating the mineral composition of the corresponding region of the moon. The lunar phase here is a 70% waxing gibbous. North is up.