Interesting page by the Manchester Astronomical Society in the UK about colour photography of the Moon taken by land-based telescopes.

A Project by the Manchester Astronomical Society

Yes, I believe there are many large cities on the moon and they are probably occupied by the descendants of Martians. Maybe this could be the reason why NASA lost interest in sending any further manned missions to the moon. 

The evidence for this can be found in their structural and landscape artwork. As I have said before, research has revealed that Martians design their structures and make anthropomorphic landscape formations in their own facial likeness. The majority of these shapes have a human-like appearance but shapes of animal faces have also been observed. 

This form of expression is something not found with the modern human species, although there are many artistic representations on the ancient neolithic monuments that would indicate that the Martians may have reached this planet many thousands of years ago.

Was there a mass exodus from Mars due to impending disaster and the nearest safe have was either the moon or this planet?

pia00405.814 oversaturated and sharpened




(Notice towers sticking out from the moon's horizon)

-- Frutty

Forgot the link,

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA00404_modest.jpg


-- Frutty

This is an example of a serious astrony data outlet defending the grey color of the moon. It goes

"If the Moon‘s up, go take a look and see what color it is. If you’re looking during the daylight, the Moon will look faint and white surrounded by the blue of the sky. If it’s night, the Moon will look bright yellow. Why does the color the Moon seem to change from white to yellow when you go from day to night. And why does the Moon look gray in many photographs, especially the ones from space? What color is the Moon?

The photographs of the Moon, taken from space are the best true-color views of the Moon. That gray color you see comes from the surface of the Moon which is mostly oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, calcium and aluminum. The lighter color rocks are usually plagioclase feldspar, while the darker rocks are pyroxene. Most of the rocks that you can see are volcanic, and were extruded from the inside of the Moon during volcanic eruptions. Some rare rocks called olivine are actually green."

http://www.universetoday.com/19626/color-of-the-moon/

However that is not true.

Let's tale a look at alternative experimetns by the grassroot amateur astronomers

	Color enhanced view of the Moon
		Color enhanced view of the Moon This is the Moon's true colors! If our eyes were able to detect the subtle color differences, this is what we would see. The colors are due to different chemical makeup of the moon's crust. Specifically, lavas low in Titanium (TiO2) are red, while lavas with high TiO2 content are blue. Click on image for a bigger version. Copyright: SOCIETAS CORONAE BOREALIS - Jan Sonnvik Camera: Canon 20Da. Telescope: Celestron NexStar 11 GPS@f6.3.
			This is the Moon's true colors! If our eyes were able to detect the subtle color differences, this is what we would see. The colors are due to different chemical makeup of the moon's crust. Specifically, lavas low in Titanium (TiO2) are red, while lavas with high TiO2 content are blue. Click on image for a bigger version.
		Copyright: SOCIETAS CORONAE BOREALIS - Jan Sonnvik Camera: Canon 20Da. Telescope: Celestron NexStar 11 GPS@f6.3.

From http://www.coronaborealis.org/images/full_moon_color.html

The Moon in Your Mind

My previous conceptual piece on the dissonance between perception and cognition, entitled, Seeing Clouds, had to do with our tendency to persist in perceiving an illusion even when we know we are being fooled by our senses.

That’s the sort of conundrum we humans in general encounter on a daily basis. It is similar to the well-known “Moon Illusion,” in which the full Moon near the horizon is perceived as larger than it appears when it is high in the sky. This is usually explained by our misperception of the relative diameters of the earth and the moon when viewed together given the absence or presence of surrounding objects.

Problematically however, this explanation does not cover the case of airline pilots’ experience of the illusion as described here.

Perception and our knowledge of how it works in relation to our minds is not completely understood and is not completely explained by scientific means. Suffice to say, our senses are fooled in ways that affect us all in similar ways..

Even more fascinating than illusions perceived by all are illusions perceived in different ways by different people. Many of these involve color perception. While science defines color as the presence and absence of certain wavelengths of light that definition does not explain how color is perceived by individuals.

It turns out that color is perceived differently by different viewers. This is described as “subjective color”.

Philosophically, when we examine the realm of subjectivity, perception is a question of epistemology. Subjective experience is fascinating, especially in its implications. This entry deals with what I have found to be a compelling example of subjective experience.

Recently, I have become aware of the fact that different viewers differently perceive the color of the moon at various times of the day and also at various times of the month. As of yet, I have no systematic understanding of these phenomena and neither does the scientific community (see hyperlinks below entry)

Try this perception experiment by yourself and then with a few friends. Look at the moon in the daytime sky and compare its color with the color of the moon in the night sky on the same date. Try this during various phases of the moon – especially the full moon. Do you see color variations?

Personally, the daytime moon appears quite white to me but the same moon at night appears to me to be very yellow. Now ask some friends to do the same. You’ll be surprised that you do not get anywhere near unanimous responses. For example, I have a friend who sees only a white moon both day and night. Even if we are standing next to each other, I will see a yellow moon at night while she sees only white.

Think of the implications. What really can we be sure of? Do we know reality or do we know only illusion?

From http://internetservices.readingeagle.com/blog/tullio/archives/2007/06/

Also google "moon color" and see other views.

Are you sure the color of the moon is black and white?



-- Frutty

Takes a lot of LSD to make the moon appears like this for the human eye.
In the 60'ties I would have beliefed this, during the Flower Power period.
But back then in that Strawberry Field mood.....we all did believed that Americans walked on the moon surface!
Something I now feel deeply ashamed for, that I ever could have believed, this was the truth...

fruitnut1 wrote:

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True colors image taken with 400, 560 and 910 nm interference filters. Contrast and hue are accentuated considerably by using the mathematical property of the HSI space. Yes, the Moon is a colored object !

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The author has been very careless with his language with the use of the phrase "true color".

True color usually is used to denote a color representation that is very close to what would appear to the human eye.

This is typically done by choosing spectral bands in the red, green, and blue to match the response of the color receptors in the eye.

But he lists one of the spectal filters used in this image as 910 nm. That is far outside the range of normal human vision, 400 nm - 700 nm. At the other end of the spectrum, 400 nm is a poor choice for a true color image because that is in the deep violet, and the eye's response is very low at that wavelength.

"Contrast and hue are accentuated considerably." Obviously. The author has taken minute differences in spectral content and changed them to make them appear garish.

There is no question that the Moon is colored. I don't think I have ever read any claim by a reputable researcher claiming that the spectral content is flat. But to claim that the image shown is a "true color" image is just wrong. As evidenced by about 100 years of Earth-based photography.