The moon as you've probably never seen it

That is beautiful.

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The far side is not

deeper craters.


Plus look a bit right and downward from the center and see the fainter "softened" bigger crater probably from all the many little craters that hit it afterwards - who's materials probably covered it's original sharper edges. My semi educated guess. 👍

Amazing image too!

They just splat like bugs on a windshield.

Mystery solved!

That pic is awesome.

GOLD RUSH: The Moon

Now if it was oil- we'd be drilling tomorrow

Cool photo.

.... just kidding....

It's one of the younger big craters, so it has that spectacular ray system.

Do you have a link? I'd like to send it to my son.
Thanks

Where Apollo 11 landed.

Took me a moment because the image is upside down from what we typically see here. Looks like a Southern hemisphere view point.

It's been a long time since I've seen an inverted image of the moon. Turn the image 180 degrees, and features will correspond to what you'll see with the naked eye.

Inverted images used to be pretty common because astronomers used refracting telescopes, which flipped the image (and to flip it back you had to introduce another set of lenses, which would add a place where you might lose image quality). So inverted images were what you got from the telescope, and astronomers sketched or took photos of what they saw.

Reflecting telescopes, on the other hand, have a number of advantages over refracting telescopes, with "doesn't invert the image" being almost a side benefit. Once reflectors became more common, inverted image started looking weird, and sort of dropped out entirely.

On edit after seeing post #21: Or it was taken from the southern hemisphere. I apologize for my north-helispheric-centrism above about the naked-eye orientation.

Tycho at the top.



Did someone say, “Titanium”?

I'd hate to think this specific imaging work was done as a prelude to commercial exploitation. The thought that occurs to me when I watch the billionaires focus on space access is 'what would regulate the imposition of some form of economic colonization'? A colonization, perhaps similar to that delivered by the 'Age of Exploration' (1500-1700), being applied to space? I'm waiting for Musk, Besos, et al. to establish a base, and then lay a claim, using

"The discovery doctrine...introduced into United States municipal law by the US Supreme Court Justice John Marshall in Johnson v. M'Intosh (1823). In Marshall's formulation of the doctrine, discovery of territory previously unknown to Europeans gave the discovering nation title to that territory against all other European nations, and this title could be perfected by possession." This text is from Wikipedia.

What's chances of us eventually seeing space wars conducted over domain? And I'm waiting for Musk to claim ownership to the specific orbital altitude at which he places his hundreds of satellites.

That should be a poster!

😄 That's pretty pathetic bc since I bought my first 12xs optical zoom digital camera back in ?'09 I had the thrill of seeing the Moon with it's craters for the first time with a camera vs the few times I've seen it through other people's telescopes!

With Tycho being the amazing "rayed" crater near the very bottom!
Seen it lots of times, being still utterly fascinated w the fact that I can see that much of the Moon with just a camera. I've looked off & on until my camera went on the fritz a couple of years back!

But I wonder - when we see the moon through a telescope, or good camera - I don't see any hints of super pale colors, and I'm an artist/colorist.

Is it possible that having had the astronauts saying it's gray, plus the usual gray photos has my brain's optical center been inadvertently "unprimed" to detect them. 🤔