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Astrophotos: A Colorful Moon
An unusual false color view of our Moon. Credit: César Cantú
Recognize this? Yes, it is our own Moon, but using Photoshop, the photographer, César Cantú from the Chilidog Observatory in Monterrey, Mexico extracted the Moon’s colors and exaggerated them just a bit. “Although exaggerated, the color components are the real highlights,” César said, “with blue Indicating a significant amount of titanium, and the orange areas with little iron or titanium. These colorful images are more easy to perform That thanks to digital cameras that detect colors — where with analog cameras, it is still impossible.”
César took the image on April 6, 2012. See his website for more details.
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That is the true color of the Moon before it is bleached out by the glare of the Sun and Earths atmosphere. Orbiters have proved that it has colores. “Never A Straight Answer”(N.A.S.A.) will say the moon is gray with little colour. link to a true image of the Moon: http://deepskycolors.com/pics/astro/2008/10/md_10-12-2008_MoonColor.jpg