READ THIS FIRST:
P.S. Thanks to the person who made this into a globe from the original mercator map. That was a great undertaking, and you did a fine job.
Here's the image in question. It's very big (4506 x 4317) and over 1 megabyte in size, so it will take awhile to completely download in your
browser window or to your desktop. "DEMO" is stamped all over it in a regular grid pattern, so don't mistake the stamps for anomalies. The program
I used to correct the color/light and so on, is a demo version of Photoflair and it puts the DEMO stamp on the image (and i used Clarity from Paint
Shop Pro, afterwards). Apologies, but that was the best I could get Aristarchus, while still being able to see the rest of the detail on the moon. It
was a trade off of brightness vs. detail, depth of field, etc. Aristarchus is just too darn bright

(This would look great in 3d, btw!)
All I gotta say is wow. The moon is a very unique ...erm planet, satellite, chunk o' colorful rock, whatever it is. Notice how the color continues
to be seen, although only faintly, threw the white regolith (the moon dust). In some places, the regolith appears to be rather sheer, almost a cloudy
transparency covering the lower lying brown, gold and green areas. The Mares have alot more color in them than I originally noticed. Not just the
dark blue, but also browns and various shades of green. Also take special note of how the left side, along the "banks" of the Mare (blue area) ,
below and to the left of Aristarchus, have areas that are higher elevation and those are the ones covered with what appears to be a white sheet of
moon dust and small shiny craters. You can really see the 3d quality of it, especially along one ridge of "cliffs".. Here's the image:
CLICK THIS EVEN IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN THE MOON ANOMALIES, THIS IS A GREAT, BIG BEAUTIFUL PIC OF THE MOON, IN COLOR AND LOTS OF DETAIL.
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thestargates.com... <<<<
Anyway, this is gonna be my last post on here for awhile. I need to think happier thoughts and all this conspiracy keeps me thinking negatively. Do
let me know what you think of the image, however. I see tons of anomalies in it, just everywhere, and the more you zoom in on it, the better it gets.
I hope you enjoy it! It took over 2 hours to upload the bugger via FTP. lol I had to keep coaxing it along, as it would just sit there and think
rather than upload, clicking on it regularly seemed to remind it it was supposed to be doing something lol 15kbps lol good grief. Then after taking
some 40 minutes and only having uploaded 15 % of the file, it decided to terminate the connection and make me start over.
NOTE TO RIK RILEY: Rik, i just realized that program I linked you to doesn't open tiffs. I suggest you try "Photoflair"
www.truview.com... it's the program i used to photo correct the image of the moon in this post. they make you
give your personal info but its free for the demo versoin. the result of photo correction ends up with DEMO stamped on but it still lets you zoom in
and correct images for better viewing and also save them so you can upload them to the internet, if you have the server space to do it.
[edit on 7-6-2007 by undo]