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<em>left image by [mailto:tosi.philippe@wanadoo.fr Philippe Tosi], and right from Larouse Encyclopedia of Astronomy</em><br /> | <em>left image by [mailto:tosi.philippe@wanadoo.fr Philippe Tosi], and right from Larouse Encyclopedia of Astronomy</em><br /> | ||
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| − | As soon as I saw Phillipe's delicate pastel image I immediately thought of Lucien Rudaux' map of lunar colors. | + | As soon as I saw Phillipe's delicate pastel image I immediately thought of Lucien Rudaux' map of lunar colors. |
| − | The map appears in the 1967 volume, <em>Larouse Encyclopedia of Astronomy</em> and is also [http://www.mikeoates.org/mas/projects/mooncolour/intro.htm#1 online]; the earliest | + | The map appears in the 1967 volume, <em>Larouse Encyclopedia of Astronomy</em> and is also [http://www.mikeoates.org/mas/projects/mooncolour/intro.htm#1 online]; the earliest |
| − | version I've seen is from [http://www.amazon.com/Print-Lucien-Rudaux-Lunar-Landscape/dp/B005DH3QHY 1928]. Rudaux, like today's Bill Hartmann, was an astronomer as well as a talented | + | version I've seen is from [http://www.amazon.com/Print-Lucien-Rudaux-Lunar-Landscape/dp/B005DH3QHY 1928]. Rudaux, like today's Bill Hartmann, was an astronomer as well as a talented |
| − | artist. He apparently had extremely sensitive color vision for his map depicted hues that are remarkably | + | artist. He apparently had extremely sensitive color vision for his map depicted hues that are remarkably consistent with modern color saturated images - see for example the details along the western edge of Mare Serenitatis. Radaux' most intense color is the Aristarchus Plateau, which even I once saw with a mustard hue. It must |
| − | + | be some trick of the eye but I find that if I look closely at Rudaux's map and then switch quickly to the same | |
| − | + | area on Phillipe's image that the color momentarily seems more conspicuous. | |
| − | be some trick of the eye but I find that if I look closely at Rudaux's map and then switch quickly to the same | + | <br /> |
| − | area on Phillipe's image that the color momentarily seems more conspicuous.<br /> | ||
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<em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em><br /> | <em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em><br /> | ||
Latest revision as of 16:33, 14 March 2015
Camouflage Moon
left image by Philippe Tosi, and right from Larouse Encyclopedia of Astronomy
As soon as I saw Phillipe's delicate pastel image I immediately thought of Lucien Rudaux' map of lunar colors.
The map appears in the 1967 volume, Larouse Encyclopedia of Astronomy and is also online; the earliest
version I've seen is from 1928. Rudaux, like today's Bill Hartmann, was an astronomer as well as a talented
artist. He apparently had extremely sensitive color vision for his map depicted hues that are remarkably consistent with modern color saturated images - see for example the details along the western edge of Mare Serenitatis. Radaux' most intense color is the Aristarchus Plateau, which even I once saw with a mustard hue. It must
be some trick of the eye but I find that if I look closely at Rudaux's map and then switch quickly to the same
area on Phillipe's image that the color momentarily seems more conspicuous.
Chuck Wood
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