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- ELee, on 10/10/2007, -1/+81The image was taken by Noel Carboni, and the image color saturation was boosted in Photoshop. In other words, the colors are enhanced, but real. His web site has higher resolution versions available.
"The Moon in Hypersaturated Color
Stacked from 15 exposures of 1/5 second at ISO 100 This image is a mosaic of 15 separate and slightly overlapping 8.2 megapixel images from my Canon EOS-20D (unmodified), taken in Raw mode and converted and stitched together in Photoshop CS2. The exposures were each 1/5 second at ISO 100.
I mounted my 20D to my Meade LX200 GPS UHTC 10" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope via my 2x Televue Powermate (a focal length doubler, similar to a teleconverter, which also serves to mate my camera to the 2" telescope eyepiece tube). Effective focal length was 5000mm f/20.
Looking through the viewfinder I swept across the surface in a zig-zag fashion, trying for about 1/3 overlap between frames. I triggered the shutter with my TC80-N3 remote timer/controller. I did the stitching by hand in Photoshop.
Since it was taken at the camera's most noise-free setting (ISO 100), the data is very accurate, and thus I was able to strongly increase the saturation via Photoshop's Image - Adjust - Hue/Saturation function."
http://ncarboni.home.att.net/Astrophotography.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060907.html - Matt88, on 10/10/2007, -10/+70That is way cool. If they zoomed in a bit more you could probably see Bugs Bunny somewhere
- stevenb486, on 10/10/2007, -2/+37It doesn't
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+35@Shigglyboo you just defeated the purpose of the new comment system. I however, used it correctly.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -14/+42nothing like a cheesy false-color picture.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+28Boo jpeg compression.
- Kwashiorkor, on 10/10/2007, -7/+30There's a hamster on the Moon. Look at the dark circle on the lower right, about 4:00.
- TalkingBanana, on 10/10/2007, -5/+26Background version anyone?
- trogdoor, on 10/10/2007, -3/+24They would just say that the pics are fake. There is no amount of evidence that will convince a conspiracy theorist that they are delusional.
- FreakyD, on 10/10/2007, -4/+23never seen it like that before, great pic
- gmarsch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Mmm... cheese
- Wamzlee, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20My first reaction was "Are You Serious?" that looks like a moon near Saturn or something. I always thought the moon was pure gray.
- MonkeyFarts, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17No, you're thinking of the bleu part.
- CoreBurn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16How about the original location...
http://ncarboni.home.att.net/Astrophotography.html (Original/Larger versions)
and
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060907.html
At least they actually explain the image and how it was made, unlike the link the poster used. - CoreBurn, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Go here for the original:
http://ncarboni.home.att.net/Astrophotography.html - loquax, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17Naw, he took a left at Albuquerque (finally).
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18It is. Its called a false color photo.
- gmallard, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17yeah, that's the cheese part.
- Ajjah, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18People still use square monitors?
- atbnet, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15Do you ever see buildings or roads on Earth taken from space? Now imagine trying to find even smaller stuff.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Mmmmm...rations.
Oh wait...RATIO. - krewenki, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Hooray Beer!
- rendersan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13A few other people in the thread have commented about the colors. This is not a render or an artist's rendition, but it's not a single unaltered photograph either. I remember seeing this a while ago, and if I remember correctly the colors in the image are not the true visible-light colors of the moon, but represent details that come out when you view the moon using special filters, like in this image of the moon in false color composited from several Galileo photos:
http://www.solarviews.com/cap/moon/moonfls1.htm
The stars are also obviously composited in from a separate photo. Even though the image does not represent what you would see when looking at the moon, all of its elements are real, and the result looks nice. Those pretty images of nebulae that come from Hubble get this kind of false-color treatment as well. - fmorel90, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11It's already perfect size for a regular desktop-1600x1200. It can easily be shrunk to 1280x1024 and 1024x768 (I know, 1280 is a slightly different ration, but it's good enough). Widescreen people, well you can just center it and make the background black.
- BryanJK, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Heres the moon of the story at 4257x 3572:
http://ncarboni2.home.att.net/Moon_Hypersaturated. ... - ElwoodHerring, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9The barycentre of the Earth-Moon system is approx.1000 miles below the Earth's surface. If it were above the surface we would effectively have a double-planet system. The fact that it's underground means that the Moon is officially a satellite of our planet.
- pkfx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Here's the 1680x1050 version: http://www.dslreports.com/speak/slideshow/16822836 ...
- ezkiel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9theres a crator on the moon. about 6:27
- tizz66, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Yeah, what's with the colouring? The moon is grey, not red.
- Nerys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Here is his fantastic shot of the moon in what appears to be unaltered color. Quite stunning that consumer equipment took these shots. Truly makes me drool
http://ccarboni.home.att.net/Moon_High_Res_Half.jp ... - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I want my 2 seconds back..
- Davekcon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9yes, it took me 2 minutes to find my house with google earth
- aoneal417, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10that's my new background
- DiamondIce, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I actually saw this a while back when the photographer posted it on dslreports. it's one picture that is hyper saturated. so all the colors you see are really there, they're just far more intense in the photo than in real life.
- Lacero, on 10/10/2007, -5/+12the moon orbits earth
- pkfx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7From the photographer:
"I made a new 1600 x 1200 desktop background image out of several of my astronomy shots (moon from one, stars from another), and it came out nice so I thought I might share it with everyone.
"The moon really is this color, just not nearly this color-saturated. If you don't believe it, desaturate this image and see how natural it looks."
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16822681 - wisam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7It's because it's full moon. I know that because it's the middle of the lunar month of Ramadan. Muslims been fasting for two weeks now.
- Nick2632, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7What's a pop-up?
- ayeroxor, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Not all of us upgrade at every possible chance in a desperate bid to somehow attain relevance. Some can be content.
- Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6The colors are artificially saturated. I guess there *are* slight nuances on the moon, but this is crazy in comparison to reality.
- Tiggums, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Even hubble has a hard time seeing the buggies, the size of them makes it nearly impossible to see from any view point to the untrained eye.
- MadOtaku, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7It's not false color. It's several hyper-saturated images stacked on top of each other.
- kimad, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7blasphemy!
- crackedplastic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Better yet: http://m3.bestpicever.com/pics/pic_11908428401913. ...
No blog spam ads. - Munkey106, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8"there's a bugs bunny on the moon?"
No, but there is a new reply feature! Use it! - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Its FALSE COLOR! Its is 'shopped.
- Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5No such proof needed... Just point a laser beam on the laser reflectors and you have your proof. ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_laser_ranging_e ...
This is one of the most surefire ways of disproving these conspiracies, actually. It would be impossible to do unless we or some aliens put up some reflactors there.
And we use this information every day to measure the Earth-Moon distance to millimeter precision. - wonboodoo, on 10/10/2007, -5/+10It's diseased! Kill it!
- BryanJK, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Almost square, 4:3
If it where square, I'd kill myself :P - mace2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6you're a slow reader...
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