(September 15, 2011 at 12:43 am)orogenicman Wrote:(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:
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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Beautiful orogenicman ...just beautiful.
Wondering if you have any pics of the Pleiades constellation??
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