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I don't see no blue.Taken less than an hour ago, using my ancient (c. late 1960s-early 1970s) Vivitar 85-205mm ƒ/3.8 Tele-Zoom lens, mounted on my 2013 Nikon D3200. 500²-pixel section of the image, upscaled and enhanced to 2048² pixels using Topaz Photo AI. 1⁄200 of a second, ISO 400. I'm not certain of the aperture setting, but it was very likely ƒ/16.
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The histogram shows there to be about as much blue in that image, as red or green.I don't see no blue.
The histogram shows there to be about as much blue in that image, as red or green.
Using special photographic techniques reveals that a good bit of the Moon, the Mare, where a great deep of deep basalts have upwelled, are actually quite blue, though the color saturation is typically too pale to be noticed by the unaided eye.
Is that on the Kelvin scale?The histogram shows there to be about as much blue in that image, as red or green.
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I suppose that's possible, with much better equipment than I have at my disposal.
I do have a 4½-inch reflector telescope
Interesting I completely forgot about the Blue Moon on Aug 30- sept1.. but by coincidence I watched a lot movies yesterday with Moon in the title. I watched a foreign film called "Blue Moon". 99 moons, Twighlight New Moon, Moonstruck.Quick, don’t miss it! All genuine “lunatics” rejoice! Werewolfs too!
The moon has been much in the news this August. For most of the month, uncrewed spacecraft from Russia and India were in a hot cosmic race to see which country would earn the bragging rights of being the first to safely land a ship in the moon’s south polar region. On Aug. 20, Russia’s plans came to ruin, after an engine burn intended to fine-tune the ship’s descent went awry. Three days later, India—very much a newbie in the moon game—successfully stuck its landing, earning this year’s top honors for lunar exploration.
But the moon hardly needs human intervention to make cosmic headlines. Tonight (Aug. 30) at shortly after 8:30 p.m. eastern time, through the morning of Sept. 1, a rare “super blue moon” will rise in the skies, creating a spectacle that thrills photographers, amateur sky watchers and even seasoned astronomers…
How to Watch Tonight's Super Blue Moon
When a full moon draws close to Earth, lovely things happen.time.com