Hi Peter - that is cool!
I have seen many of these images and I believe saturation (or some other process tweak) reveals soil composition. Do you know why this is the case how it works?
Looks good Peter.
The Moon looks good in full saturation.
APOD sucks and they are hypocrites!
I sent them my high res image of the Moon in colour and I received a reply back "we will not publish images of the Moon in Color as the Moon is certainly not those actual colors, and it would be false information".
I emailed them back with a link to an APOD they did only 6 months earlier of the Moon in color and asked them "what is this if you won't publish the Moon in Colour?", but they did not reply!
This is mine that I sent them:
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...... I received a reply back "we will not publish images of the Moon in Color as the Moon is certainly not those actual colors, and it would be false information"..........
Thanks Ken , but there is no consipracy here. The devil is in the detail...I suspect they were simply trying to give you a heads-up.
Thanks Ken , but there is no consipracy here. The devil is in the detail...I suspect they were simply trying to give you a heads-up.
Heads up to what?
They have published several images of the Moon in colour over the years, but told me that they refuse to do it.
The email was actually quite lengthy and went into saying things like how they won't publish images that do not appear as the eye sees them.
What a load of bunkem!
I have no time for APOD.
I realise they get hundreds, possibly thousands of images a day with the authors wanting theirs to be picked as the APOD, but to answer back a lie is ridiculous.
They could simply say "your image isn't suitable for todays APOD, or not even reply at all (I didn't even expect a reply, or to be chosen), but to spin hypocritical lies is what bugged me.
Well why didn't you just say that instead of snide little remarks, re; 'heads up', 'Ishihara test'.
Besides, the colours in my image are accurate according to the mineral deposits.
I was not trying to be snide.
Both the guys at NASA/APOD and myself were simply trying to point out: the colours in your lunar image are , to be blunt: *not* the same as everyone else's data.
I was wondering why you couldn't see that.
Colour vision is not a given.
Some individuals do not preceive subtle colour differences...hence my reference to the test.
Why do you say the colours in your rendition are accurate?
Looks like a good image Peter. Can you just run through how you get the colour saturation like this. I take it you use a mask and then saturate that mask. Then I am thinking you would blend it with an overlay or something like that???
Looks like a good image Peter. Can you just run through how you get the colour saturation like this. I take it you use a mask and then saturate that mask. Then I am thinking you would blend it with an overlay or something like that???
Hello Paul,
Start with a colour image of the moon.
I have found while you can get better saturation with a mono camera and RGB filters, you also get registration artifacts due the seeing shifting parts of the image in different directions with each exposure...hence a single shot colour camera is the way to go.
The adjustment is easy in Photoshop:
Image>adjustment>hue/saturation
While you can drag the slider all the way across, colour noise becomes quite objectionable. Better to take several iterations with say 30% saturation added each time.
It should be Yellow, everyone knows the moon is made of cheese !!
Ah, I believe Wallace and Gromit only found limited veins of Wensleydale at ther landing site (Mare Serenitatis) . Blue cheese is clearly more abundant on the Sea of Tranquility...and is confirmed in my roll-over data.
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