It's great to explore Astrobin's gallery of photographs of the Mineral Moon (call it a hobby), but... I don't think there is a "true" or "well balanced" photographic rendition of the moon's colors. The boundaries of the colored regions look the same on all of the photographs, that's okay, which also means: these photographs could be used as reference to create a map of the moon's colors, but... the colors look totally different when two (or more than two) photographs are compared. Still, it's excellent material to "find the differences"!
We have enough material to create some sort of catalog of the most colored regions of the moon's nearside (the most bluish crater, the most yellowish crater, etc...).
While I'm into the colors of the moon, I would like to know if some of you, telescopic observers and photographers of the moon, still use Patrick Moore's so-called Moonblink Device (an optical contraption attached to the eyepiece to detect unusual and temporary color differences).
What I also want to know. Is there some sort of digital program to create an artificial blacklight instead of the (slightly yellowish) white sun as lightsource? (say, what is he talking about ?!?!). Imagine the moon illuminated by a blacklight (a deep ultramarine blue artificial lightsource to show only the pure white, the vivid colored fluorescent, and the phosphorescent objects). Several minerals and rocks on Earth show wonderful fluorescent colors when they are illuminated by blacklights. I wonder if the lunar rocks and regolith, brought back by the Apollo astronauts, were illuminated by blacklights too, to see if perhaps "hidden" sorts of minerals appeared...
I think our moon would look totally different if our sun was an ultramarine blue lightsource instead of a (slightly yellowish) white. A veritable mineral moon!
Mmmmm... a very powerful beam of ultramarine blue light aimed at the nocturnal part of the moon's nearside, could show us a lot of colorful surprises!
And... NO dear readers... I don't need hallucinogens to think "colorful". I just think a little bit further than the usual or "grey" way of thinking.
We have enough material to create some sort of catalog of the most colored regions of the moon's nearside (the most bluish crater, the most yellowish crater, etc...).
While I'm into the colors of the moon, I would like to know if some of you, telescopic observers and photographers of the moon, still use Patrick Moore's so-called Moonblink Device (an optical contraption attached to the eyepiece to detect unusual and temporary color differences).
What I also want to know. Is there some sort of digital program to create an artificial blacklight instead of the (slightly yellowish) white sun as lightsource? (say, what is he talking about ?!?!). Imagine the moon illuminated by a blacklight (a deep ultramarine blue artificial lightsource to show only the pure white, the vivid colored fluorescent, and the phosphorescent objects). Several minerals and rocks on Earth show wonderful fluorescent colors when they are illuminated by blacklights. I wonder if the lunar rocks and regolith, brought back by the Apollo astronauts, were illuminated by blacklights too, to see if perhaps "hidden" sorts of minerals appeared...
I think our moon would look totally different if our sun was an ultramarine blue lightsource instead of a (slightly yellowish) white. A veritable mineral moon!
Mmmmm... a very powerful beam of ultramarine blue light aimed at the nocturnal part of the moon's nearside, could show us a lot of colorful surprises!
And... NO dear readers... I don't need hallucinogens to think "colorful". I just think a little bit further than the usual or "grey" way of thinking.
