For the moon lovers, I decided to attach my trusty Canon 77D on the Omegon RC6 scope to capture May’s 86% waxing gibbous moon. And if you have been following my blogs, I absolutely love the concept of a mineral moon. The colors are obtained by saturating the image to reveal blues and orange/browns. The blues represent the rich titanium present on the surface of the moon, while the orange/browns represent iron deposits. This never gets old for me, so bear with me 😊, and in the meantime, don’t forget to look up and experience an amazing Universe!
Gear: Canon 77D, Omegon RC6, EXOS 2GT mount
Exif: Speed 1/200, ISO 400, f/9
AutoStakkert, PixInsight, Photoshop
Like you, I never tire of imaging the Moon.
Yes yea 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Drexel that is a uniquely amazing moon image. I have never seen anything so colorful and with that degree of detail. Plus I learned so much from your text commentary about the minerals. Thank you for posting
Thank you very much Babsje. I absolutely love to see the moon with its mineral colors. Never gets old to me. I waiting for this Saharan dust to clear and the clouds to go away. It’s Milky Way season again and I have big plans 😊.
Oooh, definitely looking forward to seeing what Milky Way Season plans will show us all!
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾. I sent you email 😊
Thank you, Drexel. (Btw, I didn’t receive an email.)
Morning. Ok let me try again.
Hi again Drexel, good afternoon. I am wondering if my email replies to your email have landed in your spam folder? I had first replied to your lovely white Heron photo yesterday evening and then resent my reply this morning. You captured a lovely Heron!
Hi Babsje. I just saw them. Not sure why the delay. I have to figure that out.
Great photo and I’m really impressed with the color. Thank you for the information I didn’t realize that those colors were related to specific mineral deposits on the moon! Very interesting and lots to study in this photo!
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Absolutely my friend. It always intrigues me. Here is what NASA has to say: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20100910_color_moon.html
Wow! Great article and very interesting thank you! 👍😃