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98% Moon, Connor Matherne
98% Moon, Connor Matherne

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This was my first post in quite some time that I captured from my apartment. Living in a bortle 9 city tends to lend to some rather poor conditions for astrophotography. However, the moon was looking great, so I figured why not. While I was feeling a bit lazy and didn't take the time to take out my planetary camera, this was a good enough for what I was looking to make. After seeing how still the conditions were though, it almost made me wish I did take it out and make a ~100 panel mosaic.

So what is the deal with the colors? Yes, they actually exist on the moon. However, they have been greatly exaggerated for this image. This does allow us to see difference in the elemental abundances of Ti and Fe, where blue areas are more rich in Ti, and the red areas tend to be more rich in Fe.

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