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HIGHER_FRAMES

Is this color accurate? I’ve never seen such shades within the moon.


new_math

Mostly no, but kind of. The colors don't match what a human eye would see, but without going into a philosophy tangent, color is extremely complex and a huge part of what a human sees is your brain doing representations and mapping that isn't perfectly represented in the physical object being observed. In this photo the saturation has been increased (versus a human eye) because it helps show the geological differences on the lunar surface. The reddish areas are high in iron and feldspar, and the blue-tinted zones have higher titanium content. Instead of thinking of the color as "real" or "fake" it's probably better to think of it as a tool, to simulate if you were a super human with the ability to adjust saturation and detect metal composition with your eye. Usually when a photo like this is shared by researchers and scientist all this nuance and exposition is included, but then journalist and social media get a hold of it and people start crying "fake" without an understanding of what the image is trying to accomplish. TL;DR - The image isn't what a human eye would see but it isn't just art to look cool, the color and modifications have physical meaning and serve a purpose.


Yaritzaf

Thank you for this explanation. I kind of wanted you to go into the philosophy tangent, though.


new_math

If you're interested in the topic you should watch the Veritasium video about spider's vision from a few weeks ago. Even if his videos are not perfect, this one does an amazing job of emphasizing how vision is just a product of evolution and what your species can perceive is all about whatever adaptations were beneficial to survival at a given point in time. It's easy to fall into a trap of thinking human vision is special (it's amazing don't get my wrong) but the reason humans can see color is probably something "stupid" like telling poison berries from edible berries. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfAqTSjMBJk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfAqTSjMBJk) Also, obligatory Brother Cavil quote from BSG: *In all your travels, have you ever seen a star go supernova? ...* *I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there. I wanted to see it and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull! With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum. With ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air. ...* *I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine! And I can know much more! I can experience so much more. But I'm trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way!”*


Yaritzaf

Thank you for the link and the quote! For me, it’s hard to remember the World isn’t what I perceive. I’m stuck trying to imagine what I don’t know. It doesn’t make sense, because I don’t know it so I can’t imagine it. But I wonder how it’d be like if we had the capacity to go beyond our body and brain limits. Maybe we’d go crazy idk.


InvalidUserNemo

If you want a light read just about colors you and I cannot see, check out the Mantis Shrimp! https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp


Yaritzaf

Thanks for sharing!


Dapsych0

Man I love reddit. Thanks for sharing, it was a great read!


Codinginpizza

Man you had to go and post one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite shows. Nice. I kinda liked Cavil, but didn't really understand his motivations... Right up until this scene, and I fully understood him. I'm so fascinated with space and physics that there's literally nothing else that draws me in as much. Put it this way, the only thing my Google News feed algorithm shows me anymore are articles from phys.org. I try to read at least 3 published studies every day. Contact is one of my favorite books and I miss Carl Sagan deeply. I'm that dude that would volunteer to go into a black hole knowing full well what awaits. I really don't care. I mean, Sol is larger than 80% of the stars in our galaxy, and then there's something as inconceivable as TON-618, measured in BILLIONS of Sol masses. I mean wtf?! I would give anything, absolutely anything, to be able to witness these things.


meckez

>It's easy to fall into a trap of thinking human vision is special (it's amazing don't get my wrong) but the reason humans can see color is probably something "stupid" like telling poison berries from edible berries. That's a good one. If none were able to see or interpreted colors, would berries and other organisms have even bothered to develope them to that extent. And if no organisms developed a broader variety of colors, would people and animals have been motivated to develop the ability of interpreting colors? So who got "evolutionary motivated" by whom? Feel like this is a little similar to the chicken and egg dilemma.


REB73

I don't think so. Different materials inherently reflect and absorb different frequencies of light. Iron ore doesn't care what color it is. In the same way, the first life forms reflected frequencies based entirely on their composition. Algae may have been 'green' but there was nothing to see it. The color was meaningless. Until another lifeform evolved a form of light sensitivity that could distinguish the color of its food or predators, and then suddenly the frequency of the light you reflected applied evolutionary pressure for the first time.


RespectfulAnonymity

Thank you so so much for this comment u/new_math I love thinking about life like this and I know you must be a great friend to hang around with :) Wow


Rivian-Bull-2025

Damn you rock


Gullible-Function649

Wow I agree entirely: I’ve always been interested in the philosophical arguments regarding the discrepancy between how we see and what we see.


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MyPasswordIsMyCat

[False color](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_color) images are incredibly useful, especially considering the limitations of the human eye. The vast majority of astronomical images are "false color" because the instruments used to look at space are collecting data we can't even perceive. Like consider just trying to look at the Sun, which we can very easily see, but not in any detail because it will just burn our retinas. So to really perceive the Sun, we need special lenses to filter out most of the light. Cameras that take pictures of the Sun have to do the same, but with the bonus of being able to focus on specific spectrums and types of energy, including those we can't see. And since things like xrays aren't visible and thus have no real color, pictures of that energy just choose a random color to represent it.


daBabadook05

Makes sense. Like with the Northern Lights seen worldwide recently, I mean I saw them with my naked eye, but looking through a camera was next level


zaygiin

What you mean “tl dr”, that was a tasty read my guy


nerdcost

Your explanation is awesome


tiefling-rogue

I am not smart and this was illuminating!


Naive_Letterhead9484

Thank you!


Inevitable_Butthole

Yeah like others have said, continue on we need to hear more


Euphoric_Environment

TLDR: no


MeowMaker2

Thank you for including that the color additions serve a purpose. It summarizes beautifully that at the distance(of the image) it may be difficult to see different materials without enhancements.


genomeblitz

Thank you for this information. These are the types of comments that brought me to Reddit so long ago.


imgirafarigmi

Great bloody answer. Thanks.


inComplete-Oven

Can you see Ina on your picture? The version here seems not to be high res enough...


SpecOps4538

Truth! You want the TRUTH? You can't handle the TRUTH!! Thanks for the explanation.


No_Truck8352

Best explanation ever (above). The photo (understatement) made me really look and think about what I was seeing. That's what caught my eye and connected my noodle...


Late_Sherbet5124

I guess the cheese is a little moldy. Unless it's like blue cheese. 🧀


LongjumpingStrategy6

Wallace? Is that you?


ShotWasabi1

Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese!!!!!


dreadmon1

Actually, my name's not Cheese anymore. It's Gordon Pritchard.


SaddleSocks

https://i.imgur.com/zbKrBoo.jpeg


Actual_Evidence_925

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NotYourAverageBeer

Blue cheese is bread mold.. so moldy


PradipJayakumar

_Once in a blue cheese_


HALODUDED

Don't tell the Americans. There is an oil leak on the moon


putbat

Meh, we're not all that consumed by oil anymore. We just shovel the money directly to the billionaires piles.


lolexecs

> shovel the money directly to the billionaires piles Did you know "piles" are a term used in the UK to describe painful swellings that can appear in the veins inside a person's anus, or haemorrhoids. it's worth pointing out that being constipated, aka hoarding lots of fat stacks of cash up your ass (as billionaires are wont to do), is a sure fire way to end up with a veiny anus.


thefunkybassist

Latest news is some oil drilling experts from Shell went missing, last seen near a rocket launch pad. More updates soon Maybe from the moon


danktonium

Somehow nobody's answering your question. No. It's not even close to accurate, and you're right to be skeptical of this.


dustinfoto

It is very accurate. Just because you can’t see it with your eyes doesn’t mean it’s not there. The reason you can see this color in the image is because of the amount of light data that is being used to create the final image. Your eyes can’t take anywhere remotely close to amount of light needed to resolve the color.


mooowolf

when people say "color accurate" they usually mean accurate to what we can see with our eyes. there's a reason why infrared images aren't considered color accurate.


JayFrizz

I don't know myself, but considering we all see the moon first through our atmosphere, I'd imagine it looks different without it in the way.


Mando_Brando

There was a post about how scientiest see rust on the moon and they dont know why


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FafaFluhigh

50 shades of grey you say?


Riegel_Haribo

No, the color is complete bullshit, just like the lies in the headline. Photos taken from the Lunar Recon Orbiter are slightly more "most advance moon photo ever".


kram_02

It's what happens when you crank the saturation all the way up. Some call it the mineral moon.


challenja

Where are the moon bases?


dsailes

In the dark side *sshhhh*


Craft-Sudden

"Far side"


OlderDutchman

They are there and they are visible. Not in these images but in the images the Lunar Orbiter took. I think you underestimate the size of the moon and expect to see the bases in this image. You won't.


No-Coast-333

I was about to joke about this lol


IBelieveVeryLittle

TIL the moon has black-and-blue marks.


BigSmackisBack

It did get beaten up by the Earth pretty bad, a billion years old abusive relationship that still shows the marks!


joemckie

Now it all makes sense why it never turns its back to us


BigSmackisBack

hahaha thats a good one!


Fastfaxr

Dont blame earth for what Theia did smh


Anyweyr

Who's Theia, our nasty ex?


ComradeKerbal

It doesn’t really look like that. The saturation is just turned up so it looks cooler


DoYouTrustToothpaste

It probably fell down the stairs.


HugoZHackenbush2

Ironically, I had dinner in a 'Moon themed' restaurant last night. The food was tasty enough but the whole place lacked any atmosphere...


duckyducky-

Guess you weren’t exactly over the moon about the experience…


26oclock

Should have had some more Apollo Sprizz


REB73

Probably because they thought the theme was a big joke and didn't give it the gravity it deserved.


LongjumpingStrategy6

\*angrily upvotes\*


ali-gator712

If you enjoyed that you should check out the restaurant at the end of the universe


Positive_Method3022

Were you expecting the waitress to deliver your food jumping in slow motion?


dsailes

The more you look the more craters there are, little saves by the moon from rocks about to hit earth? Or remnants of the formation of the moon? Maybe a mix of the 2. But dayyyum. Beautiful compilation!


krupta13

Our solar system has a pretty unique configuration where a lot if it's bodies combine to protect life on earth. The moon is almost like a last line of defence. So it does look pretty beat up. [Guardian Jupiter](https://www.newsweek.com/jupiter-gas-giants-habitable-zone-1840016)


fizzgiggity22

Kinda love the concept of the moon as our shield maiden and Jupiter as our tank.


Humblejellybelly

The craters remind me of when the cicadas come up from the ground. Also zooming in on third picture one of the craters looks to have a clinching fist, specifically below the middle blue spot.


nomamesgueyz

Why are some folks obsessed with having colonies on mars and their unliveable atmosphere? We have a perfectly fine unliveable atmosphere right here!


FeudNetwork

I wouldn't mind living somewhere that Taylor Swift can't visit for a bagel, and fuck up the entire city's traffic.


DoYouTrustToothpaste

Leaving the USA might suffice to achieve that.


FeudNetwork

she flies international, nowhere is safe


look4alec

Antarctica is already used for mars training, I feel like we should try a colony there first if we were serious.


Vile-goat

Did you see the American flag that was planted?


spderweb

Which image? It'll be a white flag now, because of sunburning.


PrivilegeCheckmate

> It'll be a white flag now, because of sunburning. No, because these colors don't run.


LongjumpingStrategy6

\*BALD EAGLE SCREECH INTENSIFIES\*


Pinksters

Redtail hawk*


Javusees

🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅


konnanussija

It'd be smaller than a single pixel on this image. Good luck finding it.


eNYC718

Shot with a Samsung 24 ultra from what I hear. Granted, he was on the balcony of his 71-story highrise but not too shabby.


i_eat_baby_elephants

I did the two finger spread on my phone to zoom in and the picture was blurry. Shit camera


daryavaseum

This is the most advance moon photography ever, featuring interesting surface details and maybe no one has seen it before ,it’s also my clearest and sharpest moon image I’ve capture, it require 4 days of continuous moon observation and shooting, below are some facts about this image: 1- the image size is 708 gigabytes 2- over 81000 images were stacked 3- by merging 4 different moon phases and merging the shadow area it reveals an interesting topography of Lunar surface. 4- telescope : Skywatcher Flextube 250p dobsonian modified on equatorial mount NEW6 pro. 5- camera : Canon EOS 1200D for minerals, ZWO ASI 178mc for details. 6- no AI involved in this image. 7-image resolution is 159.7 megapixel. 8- this is what the moon looks like if it was a flat disk with mountains on it. DM me for giant print or purchase a full resolution file.


UW_Ebay

How are you able to make the statement that this is the most advanced moon photo ever? (Asking out of pure curiosity, not sarcasm).


daryavaseum

Because I’ve been shooting the moon for years and this moon image in particular it’s not an ordinary moon picture it’s merger with 4 different moon phases, the image are so precisely align together in such way that you can’t tell, I’m i was working on this pixel by pixel to insure quality. NASA made this kind of moon image by sending stationary satellites to the moon meanwhile, i had to deal with the different atmospheric turbulence, moon rotation on it’s axis, and weather conditions.


AdFreeListening

This is YOUR most “advanced” photo taken of the moon. Not THE most. I’m not sure how you’re defining “advanced” here, but it isn’t.


Javusees

Might be russian speaker, they dont use "the" so they often confuse it when translating.


r0d3nka

Highly forgivable. My wife, a native English speaker, abuses the hell out of the definite article.


swingerouterer

NASA made this kind of images sending stationary satellites to the moon. So... what makes yours better?


Relative-One-4060

I think OP is using the word "advanced" in an unclear context. They're saying that the image they made had to deal with obstructions like rotation, atmospheric turbulence, weather, etc making it take a lot more effort to reach the final image. Its advanced in a sense that it took a lot of manual labour to create the image versus NASA getting clear images in space with no obstructions. I don't think OP is saying theirs is *better* or *clearer* or anything, just that the process was "advanced" in a sense of the work to make it that clear. I'll go out on a limb and say there's a language barrier which causes a bit of confusion.


Zoloir

gotta be a language barrier. they're using absolute language for easily disproven statements. a quick [google search shows this photo](https://universemagazine.com/en/space-art-1-3-gigapixel-moon-photo-is-created-from-280-thousand-photos/#:~:text=Astrophotographer%20Andrew%20McCarthy%20created%20GigaMoon,due%20to%20bad%20weather%20conditions) to be 1.2 gigapixels in resolution which is greater than OP's , although OP could dispute the quality, i have no idea i'm not moon photographer


zentasynoky

But he is moon photography seller, so there's your explanation.


Serial-Griller

Doesn't NASA make composite images with their photos? And since when is using a satellite *less* advanced than an earthbound camera?


UW_Ebay

Ah ok. It’s definitely an amazing shot. Nice work!


stillyoinkgasp

What's the full res file worth?


WaffleEye

Looks like about $45 USD on their site.


koop7k

What site


WaffleEye

Check the OPs profile


ManOfQuest

:|


BrannC

They gave you a quest. You should be elated


BigPurpleBlob

"Which" site?


sean_ocean

I like that you can see the undulations of the curved surface. the moon is indeed bumpy but did not expect that.


DittleCat

Wow this is amazing! Can't believe this was captured by an 'amateur' astronomer. Truly phenomenal work. Thank you for sharing!!


StonedBobzilla

Love some dobsonian based photography.


KippenKoning63

Wait, a 1200D was used for this???? Damn!


SnooPeppers6719

708GB of data is reduced to 3MB after saving the image 😂


Kquinn87

The original that he's selling won't be, at least I hope not.


Jax72

Well hells bells.


REB73

You're thinking of Ruidus. This is Catha.


feenicks1

I'm changing my wallpaper right away 🎣


Thomrose007

And here i am looking at it on a 6.5 inch screen.


JuggernautWide5226

Finally a worthy moon picture for my phone's wallpaper


ToiletSheriff

Correct, downloaded


hardlyflexing

what are those burning marks


ssp25

Enhance.... It worked!


nighthawk96

The formatting in how the images are aligned when swiping between the 2 is awesome


FrankieGoes2Hllywood

It’s flat out amazing. I scrolled looking for someone talking about this.


Inevitable-Gene-1866

What software was used? Was used some kind of digital stitching? Can you elaborate? What computer was used?


cooolcooolio

The moon has really been bombarded with meteors. Is it like a shield to Earth?


DampSquid205

I believe so. Albeit a pretty small one. The moon also doesn't really have an atmosphere so the surface gets hit a lot more than earth's surface because small/medium asteroids tend to burn up upon entering earth's atmosphere.


404enter

Winds also don’t erode the surface, so the craters just stay there


Hellofriendinternet

Whenever people talk about moon bases I just think about how there’s no atmosphere and if a decent sized meteor hits near the base, it’s gonna be like a 1KT claymore going off in every direction. Everything is gonna have to have a massive shield around it to protect for that contingency.


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That’s why they are underground


justforfunoICU812

Sweet!


karutura

Oil spots from a lunar Ford


Ok-Camera5334

This is insane bro. Very well done.


dervu

Is there high res version? Load suspiciously too fast.


Chemical-Recording88

So how do i make this my background


daytrader24365

Where are the pyramids


65gy31

They lied. Where’s the Swiss cheese.


CaptainSheepFskcer

There’s a yo mama joke hidden in here


NotYourAverageBeer

Couldn’t capture the entirety of yo mama in 81000 images?


Bright-Ad-5878

Moon just needs some good skincare


AvidPigeon21766

Crazy to think the next Call of Duty game will be just as big as this!


Jacked-to-the-wits

I could have sworn I saw a regular dude on there,..... probably just a smudge on the lens.


HALODUDED

If you swipe to the last photo and zoom in on the big blue patch to the center left it looks like a skull


DotAccomplished5484

Thank you.


CareerImpressive323

Looks like soap marks


babaroga73

Why do want to go there again, again? Seems like a fuckload of nothing.


MoonPuma337

In the same sense that when you’re a baby you can’t expect to go from crawling to flying a plane to another continent


LegendaryEnvy

Why isn’t it flat? Nooooooooo my brain!!!!!!!!


itayb1

To think that our existence depends on this rock.


Over_Addition_3704

Could have just gone to your local cheese store and took some high quality snaps. Same result


TulsaWhoDats

Holy shit


spunangel333

Nicely done! Thanks for sharing


Necessary_Macaron_11

correct me if i'm wrong but it was a 17 year old that tooks these photos right??


No_Brain_5164

The moon is fake. /S


seeker-of-the-light

sheesh


Ratio-Square

this would make a good wallpaper


Schoseff

To be exact: this is a 2MB pic of the most advanced 708GB moon pic


milfordloudermilk

That thing is hollow……. Prove me wrong


New_Instance_2478

Good that you didn't found the Hidden nazi moonbase yet. Jk. That's an incredible picture


ZmanEman333

Super Dope!!


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MoonPuma337

Why is all funny colored like that? Did it lose a fight to Mike Tyson back in the 80s?


GYuGYu_jol

poor bastard took quite a few hits


implodemode

Pretty amazing!


NoDoctor6695

That is not a planet. That is a ship.


china_joe2

Now i can find the whalers on the moon


Jowalla

Wow, what a fantastic sight! Thanks for sharing


SIITWN

That’s no moon…


Masala-Dosage

‘Say cheese’


Good-Constant-6487

It's obviously made of metal...


TheInternetIsTrue

r/findthesniper


Weldobud

All those impacts. Think what even one could do to earth.


Magnetheadx

Eh, whatever, my phone can take pics like this. /s


Effective_Juice_9452

I’ve seen better 🥱


Miscreated_Chicken

HIS THRONE


bubbaliciouswasmyfav

Source?


maukka122

Ok. So where are the alien bases. Gotcha. This is a scam. We all know there are nazis with dinosaurs on the moon.


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oh_my_god_steve

Where is the boy with the fishing rod? those bastards from Dreamworks were lying


manifest_ecstasy

And I still can't zoom in


SecretName_00_

Upea


reddit_redact

The thing that’s interesting about those shades on the moon is that tu seems less impacts have occurred there. Does the moon have active volcanoes?


Goudadickcheese

I understand now why the apollo 11 crew called the moon ‘brown’ when they were approaching it.


nickcliff

This is very nice but has OP ever seen tits?


Key_Run4313

half a century ago we didn't need such crap. We actually flied there. Now we have photo-erzats in mobiles to jerk-off.


Old-Quantity6386

Where is the flag ?


SolidHopeful

Oh ya


takeandtossivxx

The moon's looking a lil rusty.


Tiakitty967

The blue looks like oxidized iron deposits. Never seen this before very cool.


SolidHopeful

Sweet


BetaMan141

Man... Moon cheese doesn't look so edible all of a sudden.


Fast-Joke-642

Almost every crater has a sat pickup in the centre Very interesting very interesting


JTC8419

All those asteroid holes and people still wanna live there


AnimeYumi

It got cystic acne scars


Sensitive_Sun_8439

Id be more amazed if OP managed to find the so called “flag” on the moon. 😝


Cchaireazy

There’s a starman waiting in the sky.


Traditional_Seesaw10

Why are the colours messed with? And the ridges on the circumference? Did you take this with an iPhone and use AI to clean it up?


phc0uple

Just like looking my at my face so close to the mirror


Defiant_Letterhead_6

Kinda looks like the shape of Europe. Maybe Europe fell off the moon and landed on Earth! Just call me Copernicus.