The Moon in Colour

[Darth Takahashi]

Attached you can find an image of the moon where I have pushed the colour / saturation as much as possible. The image was taken straight through my TOA130F with no filters or reducers etc. Just the canon 1DMIII on the back. You can really see the green and blue areas of the moons basins coming through. Does anyone know what are the different types of rocks that make these colours?

(click to enlarge)

Weather permitting I'll try again soon with the M250 and reducer since I don't want too many images to merge.

Neil.

[michaelmorris]

You can look at geological maps of the Moon online (or download them) for free at:

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/usgs/