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Colors of the Moon

A nine-week-long spell of bad weather is haunting me, and there's no improvement in sight. January was gracious though and gave me 20 minutes of crystal clear skies... So I aimed for the moon and since everything else is grey right now, I made my shot extra colorful.

 

The image features the region between the Mare Imbrium and the Mare Serenitatis with the prominent Montes Apenninus and Caucasus separating them. With Copernicus, Archimedes and Aristoteles there are also a few of the better knows moon craters in the image.

 

The colors are obtained by increasing the saturation of the original image and refer to the mineral composition of the moon's surface.

 

The image is a 4-panel mosaic taken with a Skywatcher Maksutov 180/2.700mm and an ASI 178mc from my backyard in Luxembourg on January 26.

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Uploaded on January 30, 2018