Amateur Astronomer Captures the Moon

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Amateur astronomer with his own telescope and camera captures the moon
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And I always thought you'd need a million dollar space observatory located on a mountain to get images like this.

Now ENHANCE!

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wow mindblowing s&f


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imagine if this amateur could produce these images from his telescope imagine what nasa is not producing on their site. millions or even billions of dollars are invested in nasa to get clear and even color images and even then they will not divulge, is that because they are hiding things from us.

Originally posted by jziegler
imagine if this amateur could produce these images from his telescope imagine what nasa is not producing on their site. millions or even billions of dollars are invested in nasa to get clear and even color images and even then they will not divulge, is that because they are hiding things from us.

LOL @ N.A.S.A

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i'm sorry i wasn't clear with my message i meant clear color images, all the photos ive found of the moon by nasa are black and white

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That's because they want you to believe the Moon is nothing more than a boring grey rock. I want to see the Moon in 32 bit colors not 1 bit like N.A.S.A likes to give.

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that's exactly what i'm saying. the moon is definitley not a boring grey rock
if it was no one would be so intrigued by it

Maybe we can get some non-airbrushed photos of moon structures for now on

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Here's a start for you:





P.S. No cats are visible in this image.

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thank you for the picture, i just wish they'd post close ups in color and stuff but thats only 1 and it looks like they blacked the edge of the moon out so you can't see outer space with it. does it say what the bit size was they need to give us 32bit color

Originally posted by Chadwickus
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Here's a start for you:





P.S. No cats are visible in this image.

Haha, I don't know what your talking about..

But that is a nice picture of the moon though I'll give you that.

maby we can get him onbord with ATS and get some more closeups. very nice find. s&f for you.

Beautiful, thanks for sharing these videos and pictures with us.

I think everyone is feeling kind of negative these days and seeing something like this kind of lifts you back up a little, if you know what I mean

Originally posted by Chadwickus
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Here's a start for you:





P.S. No cats are visible in this image.

Thats a nice picture, never seen it before. Awesome.

I agree it really does feel like NASA is hiding something. You can spend around $650 (canadian) to get a camera and equipment like the one in the video to get photos some of which are betting than NASA's. Why is this? NASA has endless amounts of money, how have they not come up with anything? Just some questions i think we should ask. Something just seems wrong.

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I used to have a Celestron NexStar 114, and it was amazing to watch the moons of Jupiter. I also had a hard look at the Moon, and I never saw it in color. Can you tell me how this was done?
Nothing personal but I just wanted to know.

Originally posted by DXFILMS
I agree it really does feel like NASA is hiding something.

Unless, of course, you actually look for color close-ups of the Moon in the Apollo record. In less than 5 minutes, I found hundreds. You can start with the Apollo Image Atlas which has every roll in easily-browsable pages. The Apollo Image Gallery at the Project Apollo Archive has thousands of really lovely hi-res scans.

Color photos of the Moon can be found on Apollo 8 magazines 14 & 16, Apollo 10 mags 27, 34 & 35, Apollo 11 mags 36, 37, 40 & 44, Apollo 12 mags 47, 50 & 51, Apollo 13 mags 60 & 62, Apollo 14 mags 66, 72, 73 & 78, Apollo 15 mags 87, 88, 91, 93, 96 & 97, Apollo 16 mags 113, 118, 119, 120, 121, & 122, and Apollo 17 mags 145, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152 & 153.

Actually, most probes use black & white imagers because they have a much better contrast ratio. When you see a color image from Cassini, a Mars rover or whatever, it's a composite of three B&W images taken through red, blue & green filters. This way, they get the high contrast ratio and approximately true color.

You can spend around $650 (canadian) to get a camera and equipment like the one in the video to get photos some of which are betting than NASA's.

"Better" in what way? What resolution do you get with your store-bought equipment? What resolution are the NASA photos? Specific numbers, please.

Why is this? NASA has endless amounts of money...

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...how have they not come up with anything? Just some questions i think we should ask. Something just seems wrong.

Such as your feeling that NASA is hiding something, or that they don't make color images available, or that their images are worse than you can get off-the-shelf, or that they have endless amounts of money...

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It's a mosaic filmed through a green filter by the Galileo spacecraft.

During its mission, the Galileo spacecraft returned a number of images of Earth's only natural satellite. Galileo surveyed the moon on Dec. 7, 1992, on its way to explore the Jupiter system in 1995-1997.
This color mosaic was assembled from 18 images taken by Galileo's imaging system through a green filter. On the upperleft is the dark, lava-filled Mare Imbrium, Mare Serenitatis (middle left), Mare Tranquillitatis (lower left), and Mare Crisium, the dark circular feature toward the bottom of the mosaic. Also visible in this view are the dark lava plains of the Marginis and Smythii Basins at the lower right. The Humboldtianum Basin, a 400-mile impact structure partly filled with dark volcanic deposits, is seen at the center of the image. *

I just bought a telescope last week, it's easier than I imagined to get good shots of the moon.

I have a 130mm scope, here's two pics I took using a 10mm eyepiece and my 5 megapixel mobile phone held up to the sight

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If I can take photos like this with a mobile, then imagine what you can do with a proper camera and adapter.

Firefox users can right click and view full images

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