This is my latest moon image taken last month during full moon.

I was hoping to catch this month's Harvest Moon but the weather unfortunately didn't co-operate.





Taken with an 8" F6 newtonian

Camera: Canon Rebel Xt @ prime focus

Conditions were excellent thankfully

If using mozilla right click picture select view then right click again and save image to get the hires image on your drive. Hope this helps.

Processing - brightness and contrast adjust
Neat image demo noise removal
Colours are not artificial (RGB)

Hope you enjoy the image,

Mars or Bust
edit spelling mistake and posted image on ATS

[edit on 6/10/09 by marsorbust]

That's an awesome shot! I am very interested by Space and the surrounding planets.

Would love to get you to take a few shots for me!
I'll add you as a friend

That's just beautiful.

The violence of her past is pretty easy to see in this one.

Thank you very much for sharing.

This photo is just another example of why I don't understand why there has ever been a debate about the colors of the Moon. All you have to do is look up and see these colors with your own eyes. Blues and greens are apparent even to the naked eye viewing the Moon from Earth. Just like in this beautiful picture.

In addition to pictures like this and the ability of anyone on Earth to look up and see colors like this we also have the astronauts themselves often talking about the colors of the Moon.

So seriously, why has there ever been a question when we can just look up and see the colors for ourselves?

I wonder if and how long it will take for somone to try and "debunk" this image, and say it's somehow been altered or faked?

I did not expect to see such a large amount of dark blues and Light greens.

What rocks make up the green color?

As I think the dark blue is shadowing from craters?

the upper left area almost resembles earth

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Originally posted by marsorbust
I'll never understand why it doesn't yet have a permanent base on it today.

Many believe it does, and there is certain evidence for it as well. Of course if one nation managed to build a base they would keep it a secret, so its not very outlandish to me.


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great pic, you don't happen to be holding back a larger version of it do you?

would love to get it if you do,

u2u me, and thank you.

Awesome picture! The colors are usually drowned out since they are so faint. The moon IS grey, but it's tinted different colors due to mineral content. Do you have anymore like this of other objects?

Fantastic photograph!!!

I'm curious as to what sort of shutter speed/aperture you had your camera set at.

If only I still had my telescope....

Originally posted by Copernicus

Originally posted by marsorbust
I'll never understand why it doesn't yet have a permanent base on it today.

Many believe it does, and there is certain evidence for it as well. Of course if one nation managed to build a base they would keep it a secret, so its not very outlandish to me.

Thats doubtful. One nation keeping a secret from all other nations? Yeah right. If JAXA had a station up there, the United States would nooooot be happy. ESA would even probably be quite livid. (just an example)

image res?

Is anyone able to get this image at over 1700 x 1700 pixels??

If not can ats support this resolution?

Thanks,
Mob

CANCEL, image is posted on ats now, sorry for the mixup

[edit on 6/10/09 by marsorbust]