Few petrographic Moon images

[riklaunim]

Last night the Moon was bright, but low on the sky and some clouds were lurking around. I've decided to test PGR Chameleon in lunar petrographic imaging (deep IR). So I used C11 + f/6.3 reducer (but not on optimal distance and the reduction was weaker) and the Point Grey Chameleon camera. Petrographic imaging requires taking few images in different narrowband filters at around 420, 750, 900, 950 and 1000 nm.


Standard Moon images, ProPlanet742:
* http://www.rkastrofoto.appspot.com/site_media/astro/orig/moon-02-06-2012/moon1.jpg
* http://www.rkastrofoto.appspot.com/site_media/astro/orig/moon-02-06-2012/moon2.jpg

Maturation and mafic images:
Bright blue crater and its rays show that it's relatively young crater. Red color shows highland areas. Green on the mafic channels shows olivines presence.
* http://www.rkastrofoto.appspot.com/site_media/astro/orig/moon-02-06-2012/m3-maturation.jpg
* http://www.rkastrofoto.appspot.com/site_media/astro/orig/moon-02-06-2012/m3-mafic.jpg

Maturation and mafic images:
Highland material in bottom left corner, some olivines in the mare area and in the center.
* http://www.rkastrofoto.appspot.com/site_media/astro/orig/moon-02-06-2012/m1-maturation.jpg
* http://www.rkastrofoto.appspot.com/site_media/astro/orig/moon-02-06-2012/m1-mafic.jpg

Maturation and green maturation channel (750nm/1000nm):
Highland areas, on the right side some ejecta from a crater near by.
* http://www.rkastrofoto.appspot.com/site_media/astro/orig/moon-02-06-2012/m2-maturation.jpg
* http://www.rkastrofoto.appspot.com/site_media/astro/orig/moon-02-06-2012/m2-green.jpg

You may also check my (mostly "planetary") equipment tests (http://www.rkblog.rk.edu.pl/w/p/latest-tests-astronomical-equipment/) I was making in the past weeks :)