RE: Speaking of diamonds...
September 15, 2011 at 12:43 am
(This post was last modified: September 15, 2011 at 12:47 am by orogenicman.)
(September 14, 2011 at 11:42 pm)Epimethean Wrote: What is more exotic? Mars?
It might be, but my scope is actually better suited for deep sky astrophotography instead of planetary work. The Moon is close enough that I can get decent (but not supurb) images of it.
Here is a false color photo I took of took of the harvest Moon in 2006 with the same scope but a different camera:
![[Image: main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_it...alNumber=2]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=louisville-astro.org%2Fgallery%2Fmain.php%3Fg2_view%3Dcore.DownloadItem%26amp%3Bg2_itemId%3D15317%26amp%3Bg2_serialNumber%3D2)
The false colors show the various mineral compositions of the Moon. Bluish-gray represents titanium-rich lavas, while the reds represent iron-rich lavas (which is a relative term, since the Moon is deficient in iron relative to the Earth). The pinkish regions are the silicate-dominated lunar highlands, and contain the oldest rocks on the surface of the Moon. I like to think of this photo as a poor man's geologic map of the moon.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
