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Colorful Moon, Tom Bash

Colorful Moon

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Colorful Moon, Tom Bash

Colorful Moon

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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This is an LRGB image of the full Moon taken during the Mars occultation on December 7th.  A near-IR filtered image was used for the Luminance channel.  The image channels were aligned in MaxIm DL using the manual two star (two crater?) alignment method.  There is some miss-alignment detectable along the limb and at some crater rims, but overall I'm happy with how it came out.  I processed this to saturate the color and boost the contrast of the surface features.  The colors correspond to minerals in the surface of the Moon, and the boosted contrast shows the lava flow fronts pretty clearly.

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Colorful Moon, Tom Bash

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