Natural Colors of the Lunar Surface

Image Title: Colorfull Moon, 13.35 days, 95.7%

Copyright: 2025 DeSosa

Date image was taken: November 03, 2025

Location: Valdemorillo (Spain)

Data Acquisition Method: Personal Telescope Setup

Description and Details: Despite appearances, the surface of the Moon has color and it is possible to capture it with a color or monochrome camera. Each color is due to the large-scale presence of some type of mineral in the lunar crust, from basalts and iron oxides to titanium.

The color tones are very subtle, but real (it is not synthetic color), so during image processing the color saturation must be increased to crominance to make it visible, taking care of luminance as a source of detail and contrast.

Color image is taken with a color camera. The procesing technique uses all three RGB channels for chrominance and the green RGB channel as luminance.

TS130 f/5, ASI533MC PRO, 4000 frames @ 25fps SER video

Name: Jaime de Sosa

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